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Show " ; ZZZ. "FiVliAlAND GARDEN. ; X5hC ? CeKj3S MATTEns or iNTBrmsT to ,5-5 .- AOniCUtTUniBTS. 'Panorama. , yvU Trt-lldtnt of Vurdut Dr. Wlatbrop Ulljworth St wbo haa succeeded the lata Ja II. Smart aa pretlJent of Purdue vertlty. Ufayetf. Ind, aerved (ol'eze aa v ,V pretldent f r J'jSiSS mt until hit r Hon to the pr 71 T) deocy lait Jul A f Dr Etone li 13V young man, )V thiitlHtle In jsJSS Mllonal w o Wwi Although onI '"'mjs yMr oi hl' won wide reco Dr Stone tion by hla le Ing and hit pruxnst.veae'e waa graduated from the Ha ehuictte Agricultural collego and I atudled at Qottlnse.i, where he cetred a doetor't degreo. From I Ion unlrertlty he received the dei of bachelor of telence, an honor eat by hit reaiearcbet In ohemtttry. After completing hit atudlet In ( many Dr Stone wat for a time i netted w i the chtmlr.il deptrtn of the Uolvertlly of Tenneucs. I 1183 he left tha Tennetiee unlvar to accept (he clialr of chemtitry Purdue unl cnlly Dr. Etone la a greit favorite v ' the students at (he Indiana college I the opening of tha Institution ' bring him entbutltttlc greetings fi the memberi of hit old clstiei. lltro of Dii TlloU. Pol let Lieutenant Udward J. Sti of Chicago, wbo died auddenly i other morning, took a prominent 1 In auppretilug the Haymirket t hla compauy being at tba bead of column (hat advanced to dltperte anarchlttt. Ills clothing waa ride with bullets and ht Injured hit w In clubbing one of the rioters aei lets with bis empty rovolver. L tenant Steele was oat for two C DDWAIID J, BTmJl and two nights, and nine of lbs twir ty-four members of bis company wir seriously wounded. Defends tier WorK. Barab Orand, the novelist, wbo I engaged In a sharp controversy wit an English clergyman at o the tffect of her stories upon the minds of th young waa born In Ireland. Bba began TV. writing at the age WiJrVlL ot It and at 18 VBS was married to an 4vSr? army officer with viitf "P whom she traveled jfyy j&l In Ceylon, China, f'tjjmjf. Japan and Ugypt ft lSFJ Her contributions to periodicals , were at first re- Ml a"""l-turned a"""l-turned with unfailing regularity, tit eho refused to be discouraged lad kept on sending manuscripts to Ue publishers until tbey were coapelltd to give her a hearing, "Ideals." ler first Importsnt work, was puMliitd at her own coat, while "The Heittaly Twins," perhapa her most tucceafal erfort had to wait three yean fur a publlaher. Barah Orand'a posltlog In contemporary Dngllsb llteraturt ha been the subject for much contrtntr-sy. contrtntr-sy. 8he haa many frlenda and Buy enerolea. Her real name U kn. Chambers MrFall, Dryan'j Home "Run Hit. Hack In the 'Sua when Wllllia j Dryan, the atandard bearer of tha Democracy, De-mocracy, waa a lawyer at Jacksoatfflo; f- -v III, he wis i tU8.' AaA ball eilhuiut TntY. tRi belonted b . Sylir tlub there, thi EWv baseball club ol 7 Morgan eouty bar. rteetstiy A thl, ,, I brought to Jjhl f. by the Qndlng ol JK John W SprlnjerJ VeT I one of the (Un, U Vcltlieni of Dtttor; Fj "' laded ,.? H f Pl.'talai Ur? If' form of i k Uryan In Date UalIpJJ'.er B?ujn costume, 1881 Ir " m,ltr llf? "The picture of MCaViu after the club had partlclp.,'4 "if vigorously conteatid g.n,,, M4 B J series of charity gira ., ! ' & Jacksonville, m ,h. IBBB,f ' The day the picture wit uv",J? Springer recalli that th, AUh which Dryan wu pitcher in! U-..1 catcher bad been victorious c,?, I team made up of the but Z.U among the town store clerks. !,.!? recalla that victory w mJjU, defeat In tb. ninth ImI fc? h home run hit" ' r Bn. Mlkiglgiajiaajjiataasudli fm Cp-to.lt. Itlnti A boo I Calllta-Hon Calllta-Hon or th Moll aad VI.IJ. Thtrsof ' llorllcullar. tllleallere nil ritlul-lera. ritlul-lera. 'nnlnn rrallt la rarap. Professor John U. Smith, stste entomologist en-tomologist of New Jersey, baa Juat nturned from abroad, where he went to Investigate the restrictions against amer can frultt. Professor Bmltn a s . lavettlgatcd (he methods of handling fcnacu in Uuropetn counlrlet. With rrgitd to the frultt Profctior Smith ascertained that It would be practically Impsislblo for American Irults to be shipped Into Franco except ex-cept by treaty arrangement. French cMilais have an Idea that all American Ameri-can fruits are tabooed If the fruit Is foictd through thcro Is so much red tape about It thit tho fruit spoils bo-lore bo-lore It teaches the hinds of the customer. cus-tomer. Efforts to exrlude American fruits live been abandoned In Holland, tho trofrnor found, but In llelglum very few American fiultt are received. Of-Iclals Of-Iclals In Germany, he sslJ, teemed to re falr-mlndcd and disposed to treat Ihlpmenta more rnnslderately. He bund that at Hamburg, while there, 1 consignment of 3J.003 bmela of ap-1(1 ap-1(1 waa received. Profeasor Smith believes that If American fruit ahlpptra will treat their customers fairly thero will be 10 trouble about the aa: of American fruits In foreign counttles. Everything It sold at auction and never by aurfaee ihow. One barrel In every ten la implied out upon Ibe floor and the rale U made upon the condition of the fruit Ihui dliplayed, The man who puta a lot of poor fruit at the bottom of the barrels stands a poor show. Professor Smith was sgrceabty surprised to find (be American fruit exhibit at Paris lurpatsed those of other countries. He lio found that the French commission merchants were greatly Interested In these frulta. and It la hla opinion that next year there will be a noticeable Increase In the demand for Jersey trulls. Twa.Nlrlpa.1 Iwnl I'ulala tlratta. We Illustrate herewith the two-itrtped two-itrtped sweet potato beetle, showing first the larvae on the leaf. At "!' it teen the larva, at "1" the pupa, and it "4" the mature beetle. A report of the Maryland Experiment Station aayt ihit usually thlt apcclea la recorded as jrmnoaT common of the tortoise ns attacking sweet potato vines. I tbo attacka morning glory vines. Mlarva Is yellowlsh-whlte, with a natudlnal band along tho back ,. cl side of which Is a much lighter Asrauch aa the beetles do the most jiry aa soon as the plants are aet stlng tbo planta In a solution of s -asmato of lead la doubtleas the eas-I, eas-I, sejand most effective remedy. Other-i Other-i le a spray of Paris green should be t nd as soon as tho plants have set hi spraying mixture should onslsl .rime-fourth pound or the poliln and law-quarter pound uf llmo to 40 galeae gal-eae ol water. J K.w Varl.lL. r tVhaaU ,The government haa taken up the Introduction from Hungary of new va- (letlea of wheats that promlso to great-benefit great-benefit American wheat growers Assona; these new varieties are tho oats that are especially useful In tho '.manufacture of macaroni, and factories fac-tories for the making of macaroni hive ,lledy been established In thlt country. coun-try. American wheats aro serviceable W bread and pastry making, but aro net hard enough for tho manufacture ofjmacaronL When planta are taken from one country and cultivated In another. an-other. It frequently happens that the character of the plant undcrgoct a change, sometimes for the worst; and Uwas feared that tho macaroni wheats would deteriorate when grown on qur toll or at least would soften up. The experiment, however, proved that they would crow on American soil and ro-Uln ro-Uln their choracterlstlca. Theae wheats are winter wheats but are superior su-perior to the winter wheats we are now growing and will grow over o 'much larger area. For tha making of flour they era said to bo fully equal to our best spring wheat Tho Introduction, Introduc-tion, of theee varieties should greatly stimulate our export of wheat, aa auch wheat Is In great demand In parts of Europe. f lllae llraatat In Oklahonit. A communication from the Oklahoma Oklaho-ma Agrlculturo College sajs: Considerable Con-siderable Inquiry has been received at (the experiment station ut Stillwater .this spring In regard to a native gratt tbit seems lo be gaining a foothold In the territory. There nro two forms of It One Is called the Texas blue crstt and (ho o(her (he Smooth Tcxnt-blue-grate. They are much like the Kentucky blue-grass and aro very closely related botinlrolly. They are a little coarser than tho Kentucky but In form of head closoly resemble It The Texas blue-grass haa n growth like ahort wool in the bead among he cralna while the Smooth Texas hlue-greas does not have It Tbe taste I, much like (hat of Kentucky bluo irsss. seeme to be relished by ah forts of grats-estlng nnlmals. It ap-Lrs ap-Lrs first in a bunch or two hero ind tbere but toon spreads so as to rover considerable area. It may be BTonasated elthor by sceda or porta nl U plant, but icema to be spreading Li. j without special attention. It promise. to be one of the best pasture gnusei for Oklahoma. IA tlatll (Itrapaa rut). Thla la the Insect that makes "buggy" "bug-gy" peas. Tbe weevil makes Its sp-pearance sp-pearance the lost of May or June, ic- cording to tbe temrrature of the tea-ton, tea-ton, and It ready at toon aa the young peat begin to awell to provide for (he continuation of the species. Tb. eggs are deposited on tho outside of tho podt and nro fattened there by a vlt eld aubttaure that quickly hardens. Theso eggs can be readily seen on the pods during tho month of Juno. They aro nbout a thirtieth of an Inch In length, lung and s.end.r in .orm. of u deep yellow color. Sometimes a dozen P Wr.rrtr. or more will be found on a single pod Tbe larva toon hatchet out, drills through the pod nnd worka I's way Into In-to the young licrry. Tho bole In the pod soon grows up, and there Is then nothing to Indlcato the prrtenco of the Inhabitant! within. The color of the larva Is a deep yellow with a ihlny black head. There are often many moro larvae on the pod than there are peas within, but there l only one to a berry. The rest perish. The larva continues to feed on the albuminous part of the pen, but rarely touches the llfe-gcrm. so that tbo vitality of tho berry Is not destroyed. On reaching maturity It eats a round hole to the outelde of tho pea, leaving only the (bin hull to enclose It, and then pastes Into (he pupa e(ato. It usually remains In thla condition until the following spring, then to become the mature weevil. The weevil la of a rusty black-color, black-color, with several gray spots and oands on Its back and wing covets. In tho selection of seed for planting, care thoulj be taken to get that which Is entirely free from the woevll. Thlt can be dono by keeping tho teed till It la two years otd. Alto by putting the peat Into water, when tbo tound onoi will link aud tho wormy ones float The weevils can be, for the greater part, destroyed by toaking tho pcai In boiling water for a few mlnutca Jutt before planting them. Oar W,.o.tfl Attn The former otDclal cttlmate of the wooded area of tbe United Stales, placed at 20 per cent, haa been raised to 17 per cent by tbe latest computations computa-tions of the Division of Orography and Forestry of the United States Ocolog-leal Ocolog-leal Survey, That omen baa Issued a bulletin containing new flgurrt on American forcttt, tonio of which tend to prove (ho nationil timber resources greater than la auppotcd. Tbe two latest atntea to bo examined are Oregon Ore-gon and Washington. Tbe former li estimated to contain 23J.C33 million feet. I). M In standing timber; the latter 114,778 mlllon feet Destruction by lire baa been exceedingly serious In Washington. On tbe assumption that tbe burned areas contained on an aver-ago aver-ago os much timber as tbt untouched portion, 40,000 million feet hae been destroyed sluce lumbering began, This amount would supply all tbo sawmills of the United States for two yearr, and at a value of only 75 cents a thousand, means a dead loss to tbe state of $30,-000,000. $30,-000,000. The amount actually logged In tho samo period has been 30,000 million mil-lion feet, maklnR tho estimate by thi samo comparlaton of areas. Oregon baa suffered lu from both fire and lumbering, owing to tbo smaller facilities facili-ties for marketing the product foraf Crna, Our pastures and meadows should be conserved In every possible manner, and ono of the best ways of doing thlt It to havo n number of fornge crops that may bo utod at time of year when the gratt supply falls. In early spring, midsummer and lato autumn there Is generally a shortage- of feod, and these are the times when of all others the cattlo should not need to wander wan-der over the pastures and meadows tramping them down and lessening- (heir productive power. pow-er. Tbo shortage of verdure inskrs It necessary for tbe cattle to do an unusual amount of walking, with consequent con-sequent hardening of the surface sol). In tbo wet times, spring and fall, especially, espe-cially, tho Injury la great, as ths tramping breaks up tha ground and drlvra the grass roots Into the mud where they are destroyed. Forage crops may be put In from early aprlng to early nutumn. Among tbo kinds to be grown might bo suggt-stcd fodder corn, vetches and rape. When crops for for-sge for-sge are sown In lato summer or early autumn of courae only tbe quick maturing ma-turing varieties should bo used. Traalmtnt ror Ban JiMa Kcala. I bad a pear orchard winter before last nffectcd with Ban Jobs scale. There were fifteen hundred trcca In thli lot We cut tbe treea back pretty severely and treated tbem with the whala oil soap. A good many people came while we were cutting tlnm back and told me (bat I might as well cut tbem oft at the top of the ground because (hey would dlo any way. I didn't lose a tree from the effect of cutting back or the spraying. We did this In the winter, I (blnk In February The following fol-lowing summct the follag on tho orchard or-chard was much better than anything In the country. I had two other orchards or-chards and compared It with them and noticed that tho foliage on the orchard that had been sprayed waa very much healthier than the others. I notlcd alio that there waa scarcely any blight what ever In that orchard of fifteen hundred treea, but In tbe other two orchard! or-chard! I had considerable blight J. W. Stanton before the Illinois State Horticultural Society. |