Show AGRIC I 1 I 1 1 I IV 10 how to circumvent the hessian fly so little complaint of at the lies hessian fly has been heart heard at the ohio meat ment station this season that there la Is ground for the hope that there will be no more trouble from it for i it few ew years to come bit it will be wiser iset lor for tamers farmers to bo be on their gurd guard lest it may reappear suddenly aa as it did in 1899 it Is possible tor for every farmer to determine for himself whether the fly la Is likely to appear in destructive num bera bers in bla his wheat each season to ac com this let a email small strip ot at wheat be sown along one elde iside of at tha intended wheat held field about two weeks beeks before the time when the main crop Is usually eown sown lu that particular cular local ity aa As soon as the wheat cornea comes above the ground examine the young shoots carefully every day with a magnifying kings glass A cheap len magnifying about three diameter which tan can be bought of any optician or department etore store for a dollar or lesa less la Is sufficient it the fly la Is present prevent Us its ini minute nute reddish eggs ggs ont ant fiftieth of an inch long will be found in the creases of 0 the young wheat blades once seen under a glasa glass these eggs can cally easily be been by the unaided eye as red specks often two or more are foun fount 1 together lying end to end usually egi laying occupies about a ick i ck an ant it if the fly on her appear ance finds a little wheat ready tor for her the lie mill eoon soon deposit all her eggs after which the main crop may safely be sown in the maurance that by the time it appears above ground the eggs will all hive been laid on the earlier eown sown wheat many farmers suppose that the so called flax seeds which are fabal la in october and november r at tue base of at the wheat stalk are the eggs of at the by fly but this Is a mistake these flax needs seeds are the full grown larvae ol 01 the fly which undergo their transforms tran trans storma forma tion into the winged insert within the brown cases called I 1 flax seeds chas E 9 thorne director ohio experiment J station giant we illustrate giant a plant that Is being bein tried on some ot at our bandy sandy soil soils it Is a low growing an nual forming a tangled mass under OUST GIANT fair conditions it makes a good rood growth on aandy sandy land but ie Is otherwise ot of lit tie lie value its ito place la in the agrical tura estem system of the country Is yet to be determined canada thistle la in all the history of wee weeds s in america none has been more complained of than the canada thistle k century ago it was regarded by the farmers of new england as the greatest pest of at their fields when the one tons 0 of these farmer farmers moved aest est the canada thistle went with them it grow grows vigorously sometime sometimes rapidly and sad Is to always difficult to kit kill by ordinary cultivation it forms dense patches sometimes to the complete exclusion of other plants and its abundant sharp spines make it disagreeable to handle to these characters ire are due its bradl lional reputation in the northeastern united states as the worst of all weeds with little doubt however it causes IP lp the aggregate lesi les real in jury to farm products than does bull thistle ragweed or pigeon grass and its distribution Is to confined to a smaller aren than that of any of these weeds rio tating crops to escape potato scab when the koll bar become badly in felted with the hit fungus it Is usual ly chipper to abandon potato growing upon it for a time at least than to continue the the best system of at to purify much a oil soil and the length of time which should elapse before potatoes may be grown again with safety is not fully determined the evidence indicates that root crops should be avoided and that enins including corn grasses and especially clover are the best cleaning crops the turning under of it green crop like clover just before potatoes are panted la Is especially commended farmers that go into the growing of tugar jugar beets have a ghou many thing things to look after if the expect to be euc suc the cost of growing Is great compared with other crops aad and the mugar factory Is the only place where beets so 10 grown can be dispo disposed of i a |