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Show "Telling" People About Spraying. M Our entomologists nnd horticulture H iBts, says Prof. F. M. Webster, have M been trying to Instruct people, but still M wo aro encountering criticisms every B year; and when wo romonstrato, wo H aro asked why in tho world wo do not H tell people theso things. Why do wo H not tell pcoplo? It the Angol Gabriel H had attomptcd to "toll pcoplo" ho H would havo long ago worn out his aH trumpet nnd retired In disgustl Why H do we not tell people? Why will not H people read, and llston, nnd remember H theso things that aro as slmplo as tho H first lottcrs of tho alphabet? Tell pec- H plol Why, wo aro so sick of telling H theso things that we hato tho sound H of our own voices, or tho words as 'H thoy appear on paper. How In tho ' 'H world aro we to toll you It you will -H not listen, or listening will not ro- jH member? Why will you not read theso H things? I aBk theso questions becauso tH this Is really ono of the most difficult jH phases ot tho problem. After wo ,H learn what an Insect will do and what H It will not do, thero Is tho unknown H quantity to tako Into consideration, viz., what tho people will do If thoy do H anything. Now, I have no wish to dls- H count the Intelligence of our people, and yet It always glvos mo the feeling H that I am doing this when I repeat. iH tlmo and again, the simplest state- , monts and directions relative to spray- Ing for certain Insects or fungous dls- i |