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Show PAM AND G A ADEN." VATTnrlB OP INTRHEST TO AQntCULTUIIISTB. rp-u-lut. in.!, h.,i csl-Ui.II.r csl-Ui.II.r .r th. s. ..I tlel4 Thereat llorlleallsr, VUleallare tlt!lkmr. Th. Aehenton ephlnv. Scientifically thl Is called Thllam-plus Thllam-plus achemon The cvtcrplllar of thla moth frequently devours all the foliage fol-iage of the Virginia creepers, and strips whole canes of the grape. In nuisertr tbe damage Is frequently very great, aa one of the large cater-pillar cater-pillar can kill numerous young vines In a short time Hand picking Is In all cases the moat tatltfactory and simple remedy The full grown cater plllv ot this Insect la utually found towards th latter part of August and ' ttrly In September It It a large larva, measuring about four Inches when trawling, at rest It mcaturea much Utt, aa the first two smaller segments sre psrtly withdrawn In th much larger third segment The caterpillar varlea In color from pale atraw-color to reddish brown, the color growing darker and deep brown towarda the under aide. When this caterpillar la ready to tramform to a pupa It thangni to a beautiful pink or crimson crim-son color. Tho young larva Is green, with a long and alender horn rlilnj from the eleventh segment and curv Ing over the back In the older and fully grown specimen this long horn ha disappeared, and In It plate la found a hlghty-pollthed lenticular tub' trcle. The fine-looking moth It brnwnlth gray, variegated with light brown, and with deep brown spots The hind wings are pink with a dark abada across the middle, still darker tpott below thlt tbad and a broad gray band behind Thlt abowy Intect It found throughout tha United Hutu and Canada, or wherever tha grape It cultivated, or where the Virginia creeper It utlllied to decorate our dwelling placet. In the lllutt,ratlon "a" I th moth, "b" tha egg, "c" tha OC"i'"!;l,,lIh "" larva, "a" anie-TfttrtttofTaxfcjjTa- lliMie ITh.II drain. (Condensed frcm Farmers' Iterlew flten. esrsphle lleport of Wisconsin Hound up Inelllute) W. C Ilradlry spoke on raising small gralna In part be laid- First, clean land tree from foul srcdi such at wild oata, milliard, pigeon groat or other matter that It likely to occupy part of the ground that la needed, can not grow crop of grain and weeds at the tarn time, yet thoutanda ot acrca art sown to grain every year that when harvetted con-lain con-lain from 10 to (0 per cent of unial-ah' unial-ah' trath A careful rotation of cropt and good cultivation will keep ojr land free from weedt One seed thould be telected with groat care from land that ht produced a big crop of clean, plump, heavy teed Mght or thrunk en seed ha not the vitality to grow strong p'ant under advert condition!, although It might give a good crop under favorable conditions The third requisite Is a fertile soil with the element ele-ment of fertility In the right propor- tlon Soils that have been made far-, far-, tile by barnyard manure often contain too much nitrogen which grow rank straw that lodges, making us much I trouble In harvesting and giviug a hrunken kernel which shows a lack of silica and pbospburlo acid In the soil How to overcome this has been a study with many farmers', but no tatltfactory tat-ltfactory solution has been offered tbst 1 will grow a good crop In a wet year. Sowing salt at the rate of ISO to JOO pounds per aero la laid to help tome todt Mnny farraeri advocate thick itedlng on tuch land, at the ttraw la not to apt to grow rank at when tawn thin. On well drained land which contain! con-tain! plenty of vegetal;' matter or tiumua wli ih acta at a tponge to hold the molttura which the young plant ueca In Itt growth, the preparation ot the teed bed It eaty, becftUM the land la In good mechanical condition and It will plow eaty and, v,ten the put-vcrlters put-vcrlters and harrow are put on the lurfare, wilt work up "l-llow and tree from lumps rttlly If the weather la good cutting thould begin a day or two before we think It It Jutt ripe at there It alwayt mora dinger from thrlnklng the tint day, snd If we ute the straw for feed the tarly cut It much thu bctt Hut In, care of wet weather we mutt be careful care-ful In thocklug oats or barley cut green, aa they are ilow to dry out ana may mould In the shock. I Ilka to put op shocks of twelve bundles, a rowtd shock of ten bundles and two rapt If properly put up, theto shocks will stand contldertble rain wlUiout much damage, and ws can usually begin tucking after a rain than It uncapped. SUcklng thould be don soon possible after tbe cutting la finished. Do not wait to ntlp your neighbor thrash out ot tha thock In tucking be ur to keep th center ot th ttaek higher at all time than tha ouUldt; then tb outsld bundles will htve a good pitch. d this I of mora In- MihtfaBC?a4&iijBB3EXQ9IV)SMfcMavMa "8 portanea tLan to have th ttaek loot Ij smooth. A great deal ot grain'1 It VnP' wated every year by poor Hacking. Mlti Teach tha boy how to atack, and do 1 MA not depend on a atranger. Ho may Q or may not know how to build a tuck 4 "t that will tbed water and It I then tot j f late to get torn one elte. Stacked I '.-( grain Is ututlly better than thai i , V threshed from the shock on accounl t 'w of Itt tweatlng In the Hack. (1 How do you atack grain? Mr. llradley I cant tell you how I f j ttaek It, except that the stack an i '3 round and are kept full In the mtddl A jL I msk a stack that aheds water. g W Mr. llradley 1 uee a fork, and stacl ffi JPj on my knees. Ths worst trouble with VmE tha ttaeklng of many men It that they flr allow- th Hack to remain quit flat, 'H' J and th center settles the hardest, and V the bundles turn th wrong way. v Mr. Arnold- Farmers should all 1 stack with tha fork I Hacked all my I .J gralo last year and did It with a, fork, I -; and It It the best Job on tha farm. II g ', It a mlitak to run p th stack too ?f ' high Mr. UcKerrow The secret or good 4 stacking 1 to keep th middle fulL i " n tllriliar lhemlliths. t y 2 Orchardlttt too frequently brcom i ttj& discouraged at receiving no promt ' J B from their orchard! for a number ol 3 SB year. Iho tendency It In tuch ctet IMm to neglect the orchard and permit II aflk to become a me low, or, worse, a paa. j K lure Yet a nun can well afford (s I jW car for hit orchard for year f, at fj K the end of thnt time, he can market ', Vf one large crop under favorable condl- fflM tlont tor Prices, ,? SB Kvery orrhardlit should make him ' 4H self familiar wth tho fruit-crop cos- vBk dltlon of each year. In that way only ' St can he know low valuable Is tbe trull " Jjj bsug ng on lilt tree A few year ago, Kg when rvcrytblog polnlcd to tbe prob- 41 abl Ity of high price for apple, the ftJ farracra In tome counties almost gave Bj away their apples Huyers that under- IS stood the conditions bought up etopi l on tha tract at 10 centt per buahel an gj made enurroout pruflti out ot the T tiantacton Th grower thin tailed "J to grt their part of th profit What 4 hull it front a man to apend money M and time In planting an orchard ant 1 bringing It Into besrlng and then glvi M away Its product? The grower about. M get more out of It than any other par- W Ion; Ut It I too often th mlddltma M that get all the proflu. 9 It la not unuaunl for a wrll-rared-foi ? apple orchard to produce In one yrar M t op that I worth mors than th firm J on which It I grown An officer con- J Dieted with th Uta department, ol ! agriculture or Virginia telle of ont fM o.chard there that contain! 710 tppU ;fiu tree, and last year produced a crop V worth It.lOO. Thla la an average ol S, IS CO per tree. That may be considered dH J to bt a pvofiUuU oeshudr.YaL.ihert. 2- .,, JHH lilflflT'iiiiiil In finl." lulu jBeTJT i i1nTflpM years now applet have been bringing tfl a good price on tha market, and In- dlratlont point tu th probability that H pr.cet will b good for many year la H come. Tha foreign trade In apple la I H rontUni'y Increasing and tha home de- , H mind It slwsys good Tb man that j HJ has land adapted to apple growing will I HJ do well to utilise It fur that purpose, ( HJ )!rl. Is II iw.hi. , M It Is tha observation of tbe wrlttr M that there are large number of mead- HJ ow that badly need reseedlng Even Hi In northern Illinois, where tha pa- H turcs are good and the hay crop large, H we find many fields so run dawn tnat Hi they are hardly worth cutting. Com- Hj p amU com from Now York ana HJ iiclgbrur.ng ttati that tb bay crop Ha It very short due td a drouth this Hb year and last Two droutba coming H together have Injured the grass rooU Hb to such n extent that they will be ot Hb uo usa next year, to the reporw aay. HwJ It on were tu Invaitlgato ba would H find that tha field ot which tb Is HI true have been run down year after Hh year till the roots havo became abort- H ened and are contracted to a thin lay- H er of ojrlli that Is naturally very casl- HI ly penetrated by the heat from th HI sun. In the inrsdow that have -been Hw made a part of th rotation It will HV be found that the roote are long and HWJ reach dawn Into tbe region of ruols- HH ture In tuch cases the drouth will H bavo llltl effect. It will pay to re- jH seed our meadows whenever they show HV signs ot getting thlu When the grata BVJ Uicomts abort and wiry and the weedt HVJ begin tu appear In tb dry tpoU, tha HVJ time It rlpo for turning up tbe sod ana putting It Into soiuf other crop for a HVJ year or H HamlMullae th tlnatli. H The Italian syitcn of camionVflrlng tt for preventing hall was recently put to a severe test, with result that ex- M creded expectations Threatening HJ cloud collected In the neighborhood H ot ItoKeno, In the province ot Coma, HTal three tluiis In succession on one at- WW ternoon, and each time they were bom- nJHn barded by fourteen special cannons. Wwi The e ouJs were scattered, only a lit 'uajJS tie aleet falling In tho vicinity of ilUw Alessandria great damage wo don rrffi by ball, vhlch Jell over tbe districts VSk) at Hocchitta, Tanaro, Mailo, Fells- JSflL tano and Quattordlo, In some placet Y$V piling up to a depth of twenty Inches. ;rtVU r.l l-xtsc SI. mil la Aarla. jKv' It Is believed that tbe first poeUg iJjVjl stamp used In this country was ona d- jREH signed by th Hon E. A. Mitchell, poll- PJ()S matter ot fe,w Haven, Coon., In th rflftJS year 117. It ws brflwn In color, Mil printed on ordinary paper, nnd aboot IBB tha alia ot th prtaent government HRi aUmp, and algned by Mr. Mitchell. U EHl Istued It for th convenience of th dt- fWs Item, who complained of tha delay ov H caslonrd by their being unable to pre- HB par Utter except In th oSk hoar. IHJ la i il--iasTs-MMtpasgwt.ieLi. in-. "-tasB |