Show I Dame Nature Teaches Farming Fanning The TIle silent silent hut but irresistible forces of nature have havo brought the comforts of off man to their present standard and in all probability eventually will compel the application of a higher S science to food production The old-fashioned old farmer may resist to the last your new notions but Dame Nature will wiIl have havo her way despite the reactionary tendency j I The Tho time is iss now at hand band when the farmer must solve the thee problem of the insect t. t The Agricultural Department has done dono much to help but in all likelihood d the farmer fanner must work workout out his hia own aWn salvation The Hessian fly could not net exist were it not for far tho the growing of wheat barley and rye the tho Colorado beetle beetIe would run back to his native weeds were wore not potato crops supplied to him as food The boll weevil could not exist where cotton is not grown There are arc few insects that have several food plants though some may JUnr live a little time on en any vegetation but hilt the tho habits and customs custom of the pests would indicate that though they are arc so numerous it is impossible for the farmer to cope with them Individually their ill effects can ean be greatly overcome by a thoughtful system of crop rotation Not all aU insects can be bo controlled con- con trolled in thi tin n y but many of them can Seemingly once more more natural gl QA ia la w or r n |