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Show IXTEHESTIXG ITEMS ..Birds migrating :at night average longer 1 lights than the day migrants. The laxative properties of fruits and vegetables are not destroyed by canning them. By the use of the hopper-dozers hopper-dozers as many as 300 bushels of grasshoppers have been collected col-lected on 100 acres of alfalfa. The nighthawk performs the longest migration journey of any land bird. Its trip is 7,000 miles, from the Yukon to Argentina. A way of making a delicious table sirup from muscadine , grapes is announced by the '. United States Bureau of Plant , Industry. ; The files of the United States Department of Agriculture con-i con-i tain more than 1,000.000 cards t concerning the distribution migration of North America birds. I There has not been a ser-t ser-t ious general outbreak of the f Rocky Mountain locust since 1SS0, and this particular grass-) grass-) hopper has ceased to e a pest of any great importance. I The juice of grapes, apples and many other fruits can be concentrated without heat bj means of the freezing methoc ' developed by the United States ' Department of Agriculture. 3 The roundheaded apple-tree borer may be greatly reducec: . in numbers by destroying the ', common service tree when in . prozimity to orchards. It has , been found that the tree is a p favorite food plant of the insect. in-sect. , The Artie tern holds all rec-, rec-, ords for length of migration When the young are full growr , the entire family leaves the Artie Ar-tie regions and several months 3 later is found skirting the edge of the Antartic continent. The best results in the con-t con-t trol of the grapeberry motl: have been obtained by spraying spray-ing with arsenate of lead at the j rate of 3 pounds of the paste tc 50 gallons of water, appliec s immediately after the falling 3 of the grape blossoms anc t again about two weeks later. |