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Show ful In shocking oats or barley cut green, as they are slow to dry out ana may mould in the shock. I like to put . up shocks of twelve bundles, a round shock of ten bundles and two caps. If properly put up, these shocks will stand considerable rain without much damage, and we can usually begin stacking after a rain than If uncapped Stacking should be done as soon as possible after the cutting is finished. Do not wait to help your neighboi thrash out of the shock. In stacking be sure to keep the center of the stacis higher at all times than the outs.de; then the outside bundles will have a good pitch, and-' this is of more lmr portance than to have the stack look smooth. A great- deal of grain is wasted every year by poor stacking. Teach the boys how to stack, and da cot depend on a stranger. He may or may net know how to build a stack that will shed water and it is then toe late to get some one else. Stacked grain is usually better than that FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. torn TJp-to-Date Hint About Cultivation Cul-tivation of the Soil and Tleldi Thereof Horticulture. Vltlealtore and Floriculture. The Achemnn Sphinx, Scientifically this is called Phllamf) pelus achemon. The caterpillar of this" j moth frequently devours all the foliage fol-iage of the Virginia creepers, and i strips whole canes of the grape. ' In nurseries the d-mage Is frequently very great, as bne of the large caterpillars cater-pillars can kill' numerous young v.nes in a short time. Hand-picking is in all cases the most . satisfactory and simple remedy. The full-grown caterpillar cater-pillar of this Insect is usually found towards the latter Dart of August and threshed from the shock oh account of its sweating in the stack.. j Q. How do you stack grain? . . Mr. Bradley I can t tell you how I stack it, except that the stacks are round and are kept full In the middle. I make a stack that sheds water. Mr. Bradley I use a fork, and stack on my knees. The worst trouble , with the stacking of many men Is that they allow the stack to remain quite fiat, and the center settles the hardest, and the bundles turn the wrong way. . Mr. Arnold Farmers. " should all stack with the fork, I. stacked all my grain last year and did It with a fork, and it is the best job on the farm. It is a mistake to run up the stacks to. arly in September. It is a large larva, measuring about four inches when crawling; at rest it ' measures much less, as the first two smaller segments are partly withdrawn In the much larger third segment The caterpillar varies in color from pale straw-color to reddish brown, the color growing darker and deep-brown towards the under side. When this caterpillar Is ready to transform to a pupa it -changes to a beautiful pink or crim-aon crim-aon color. The young larva is green, with a long and slender horn rising lrom the eleventh segment and curving curv-ing over the back. In the older and fully grown specimens this long horn t. disanoeared. and in Its place is high. Mr. McKerrow The secret of good stacking Is to keep the middle full. 11 .rtlrnttnral Obserratlons. Orchardists too frequently becom discouraged at receiving no profit! from their orchards for a number ol years. The tendency is in such cases to neglect the orchard and permit 11 to become a meadow, or, worse, a pasture. pas-ture. Yet a man can well, afford tc care for his orchard for years if, al the end of that time, he can markei one large crop under favorable conditions condi-tions for prices. Every orchardist should make himself him-self familiar with the fruit-crop conditions con-ditions of each year. In that way onlj can he know how valuable is the fruit hanging on his trees. A few years ago when everything pointed to the probability prob-ability of high prices for apples, th farmers in some counties almost gavi away their apples. Buyers that under stood the conditions bought up cropi on the trees at 10 cents per bushel ani made enormous profits out of tht transaction. The growers thus failed to get their part of the profits. What shall it profit a man to spend monej and time in planting an orchard ani bringing it into bearing and then givi away Its product? The grower should get more out of It than any other person; per-son; yet It is too often the middleman that gets all the profits. It is not unusual for a well-cared-foi apple orchard to produce In one year s ,. io wnrth more than the farm lound a highly-polished lenticular tubercle. tub-ercle. . , v The fine-looking moth is brownish gray, variegated with light brown, and with deep brown spots. The hind wings are pink, with a dark shade across the middle, still darker spots Uelow this 'shade and a broad gray iband behind. This showy Insect is 'found throughout the United States and Canada, or wherever the grape Is cultivated, or where the Virginia weeper Is utilized to decorate our dwelling places. In the Illustration "a" is the moth, "b" the egg, "c" the young larva, "d" the mature larva, "e" the pupa, "f" the parasitized larva-all larva-all one-half natural length. Balalnc Small Oraln-(Condensed Oraln-(Condensed from Farmer.' Review Stenographic Sten-ographic Report of Wisconsin Round-up .'"'a Bradley spoke on raising i o-ine Tn nart he said: First, clean land free from foul seeds such as wild oats, mustard pigeon grass or other matter that Is likely to occupy part of the ground that Is needed. We can not grow a crop of grain and weeds at the same time, yet thousands of acres are sown to grain every year that when harvested contain con-tain from 10 to 60 per cent of unsalable unsal-able trash. A careful rotation of crops and good cultivation will keep our land free from weeds. Our seed should be selected with great care from land that has produced a big crop of clean, plump, heavy seed. Light or shrunken shrunk-en seed has not the vitality to grow strong plants under adverse conditions, although it might give a good crop under favorable condition. Thejhjrd on which it is grown. An officer connected con-nected with the state department ol I agriculture of Virginia tells of one orchard there that contains 7a0 apple trees, and last year produced a crop worth $4,200. This is an average ol liMf tree. That may be considered to be a profitable orchard, yet there are numerous orchards In the country with as good records. For several 5 now apple, have been bringing . a-ood price on the market, and indicates in-dicates point to the probability that tion. Soils that have been made fertile fer-tile by barnyard manure often contain ioo much nitrogen which grows rank .straw that lodges, making us much trouble in harvesting and gm.1 ! sunken kernel which shows a lack of silica and phosphoric acid in the ""now to overcome this has been a study with many farmers, but no sat-Ufactory sat-Ufactory solution has been will grow a good crop in Qowine salt at the rate of 150 to iw sods. Many iarme. ""'--T. w ls seeding on such land, as tbe straw is the moisture which tne yftlJn of T ''bedeasV because the land rirgooranical condition and " -iu piowd z::eoSL IwpVellowandfree |