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Show POINTER HERE FOR FARMER One Good Thing, at Least, That He May Place to the Credit of the Auto. The farmer may not venerate the automobile, but he must admit that, although the automobile teaches others oth-ers extravagance, it has taught him a very valuable lesson in economy. Everybody knows how plant lice, or aphis, overrun and destroy plants and how the sole protection against plant lice has heretofore been patent powders pow-ders more or less costly. But of late years farmers have noticed no-ticed that, while all the plants in field or garden were covered with aphis, all the roadside growths, white with dust from flying automobiles, had not a single aphis on them. Hence an experiment. Turnips, peas and cabbages were coated with ordinary ordi-nary dust instead of costly powder. Result disappearance of all insect parasites. par-asites. The automobile, in a word, has taught the farmer that dust, which costs nothing, will protect his plants from plant lice and other pests just as completely as the most expensive powder can. |