OCR Text |
Show POINTER HERE FOR FARMER one Good Thing, at Least, That He May Place to the Credit of the Auto. The fanner mity not venerate the ,,,101'iobtle, but he must admit that, ft1i hoiiyli the automobile teaches oth ,rs extravagance, it has taught him i very valuable lesson in economy. Everybody knows how plant lice, or .'.his. overrun and destroy plants and l,0 the sole protection against plant jJt.e has heretofore been patent powers pow-ers more or less costly. Put of late years farmers have no-(ioecl no-(ioecl that, while all the plants in field or garden were covered with aphis, jjl tlie roadside growths, white with just from flying automobiles, had not s single aphis on them. Hence an experiment. Turnips, peas si:d cabbages were coated w ith ordinary ordi-nary dust instead of costly powder. Result disappearance of all insect parasites. par-asites. The automobile, in a word, has tausht the farmer that dust, which costs nothing, will protect his plants roai plant lice and other pests just as completely as the most expensive powder can. |