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wel easiest way. to treat plants for| | the yellow beetle is to use some form of repellant, They abhor dust of any and many odors are offensive to them. Air-glaked lime is very com- monly. used. It is generally scented|d with Kerczene, turpentine, or carbolic acid. As the beetles spread so rapidly, it is important that the lime be on - the plants all the time. Therefore, they should be dusted when they first appear and at frequent intervals thereafter until the danger is passed. Paris green is sometimes mixed with the lime end gets some of the beetles that the lime fails to drive away. Other dusts are often used in place of lime, as land plaster, road dust, to- baceo dust, and cayerme pepper. The tvs datter do not need anything to scent them with. Tobacco dust is es- pecially good. Instead of the dust, tobacco stems are sometimes used and placed around the plants "on the ground. Besides acting as a repellant, they have a high - fertilizing value. Wood ashes saturated with %erosene are also used im this way, but care must be taken that they do not touch the plants ay they are rather strong. Instead of dusts, some growers use sprays. The most common is Bor deaux mixture, which is the best, av it is a fungicide as well as a repellant, Arsenate of lead is usualty mixed with it, about three pounds of lead to fifty gallons of 3-6-50 Bordeaux. Lime- sulphur is sometimes used with good effect in conjunction with the arsenate of lead. A spray made by dissolving a bar of laundry soap in a pail of warm water is excelent. It * kills every bug it touches and repels the rest. By pouring a barrel of water on a gallon or two of coal tar and letting it stand a day, then sprinkling on the plants, an effective spray is made, The yellow beetle is usually ready for business at least a week before the vine crops appear, feeding this time on other foliage, but deserting it as soon as the cucurbits coma. Many gardénens take advantage of this and plant early squashes as "traps" for the beetle, killing them by pouring on pure kerosene or scalding water, three or four but soon increasing until the whole plant is covered with them. They may be repelled with tobacco ust sprinkled directly upon the lice, or by tobacco stems placed on the 'ground around the plants. As they are sucking insects, the poisons that kill the yellow beetle have no effect on them. If a spray is used, it must be one that will kill them by conbact. Kerosene 'emulsion 'is one of the best sprays. This is made by dissolving a half pound of chipped laundry soap in a gallon of hot water, and adding two gallons of kerosene while it is boiling hot. This mixture must then be churn- ed with a pump or otherwise for ten or fifteen minutes until it is a creamy mass, When ready to use, put one part of the emulsion to fifteen or twenty parts of water, Another good spray is made by dissolving six pounds of 'whale-oil "soap in fifty gallons of water. If the lice have such a start that the plant is beginning to die, pull the plant, drench it with emulsion, and bury it right where it is. The wilt disease of vine crops is often as destructive as the aphis' As the vines are likely to wilt from sev- eral other causes, it will pay to in- vestigate to find out the real cause. Cut across a wilted stem and let the slime ooze out, then touch the slime with the finger. If the material can be drawn out in a long cobwebby thread, it is the wilt disease, as none of the other causes possess this peculiarity. There is no known remedy for this disease except prevention. A rotation of crops, not planting these crops in succession on the same ground, will help to prevent it. All diseased plants should be removed as soon as they grower. The melon blight or rust appears about the time the melons begin to set, appearing near the base of the plant in the form of round rust- colored spots which rapidly spread i|in 1916 to 62 in 1919; while in : and Saskatchewan the loaning had in- oreased, . It is interesting to. note as acid or cresol has been added, will aid been greatly after the insecticide ° applied and dried. It not only helps in the general control campaign but aldo gives a clean appearance to the coop. A dust' bath for the chickens! that gives much relief but, at the, time they use it there are very'few mites on the hens. : i s----b------ { The Undesirable Scrub Bull. That invariably defective animal, the: scrub. bull, is: being gra ; eliminated, The Live Stock Branch at Ottawa, by its policy of pure-bred bulls to specially orga: associations inf newly eettled districts and in backward sections of the older provinces, 'is doing much towards achieving this end. In the seven years following the inauguration of this policy in 1913, 2,681 'bulls, purchased for $368,696, an average of $144.85 per head, had been loaned, Of these, Brit- ish Columbia has had 119, Alberta 407, Saskatchewan 589, Manitoba 220, On- bario 216, Quebec 759, New Brunswick 64, Nova Scotia 79 and Prince Edward] dsland 38. Returns substantiate the and statement that where these bulls have beén used there has been a consider- able improvement in the stock market- ed, and that in many districts to which bulls were loaned five or six years ago, farmers have felt warrant- ed in buying pure-bred animals of their own. As a result, department loaned sires are released and sent to more needy districts. This is. par- ticularly noticeable in Quebec, where the number loaned decreased rom. evidence: of the economy practiced in carrying out the policy that in one| year 426 bulls whose usefulness had become impaired were sold for dn average of 67 per cent. of their original cost, enti celluloid. They are attractive and seem to add to the aj of the flock of pure- bred birds wearing them. Alumi My F I can't expect to produce end pa; should, unless Iknow my soil. * 3 e - ; g li & i i 3 : 3 er § oY --~ Hi foiel me profits as' it Fase i = @ E73: §°3 £% i i Es By fl Lr 832 £ i 5 part es after our fall per'. 5 A little clock grew wea ee pita . A y ; Do not forget that all kinds of| this map is an entire contour of The squash vine borer is a grub| until the leaves dfe. In a week or 80| (ne of the most valuable features | poultry, young and old, require lots of | farm which tells me what I which bores into the stems of melons, | the patch looks as though a fire had| ;¢ rye ag a forage for the pigs is that clean, cool water during hot weather | know. 2 Susymbors/ apg a, Togy hel run yer ib Site Irian Stacked » it furnishes a supply of green food|and that unless it is furnished the! No matter how dab the n grow abou [OSS0 ime, ere i - 3 8 3 % ote it stays until the plants wilt and die. |ing. The only preventive is to spray during the seasons when the-ordinary (best results cannot be obtained. Keep! how stormy the day, T-can go to As it sat upon the sheld. "Twas tired of ticking all the time, Ys paurmured to gue ere anybody Se That works so hard; I'm blest If I don't think it's time that I Should take a little rest." And so it stopped, and. Mrs. Brown Took all its works apart And oiled them with a feather, So, phe she. eam Bo Stale when she eT little clock ad really stopped for good, She threw it out among the junk £ i gs 8 The presence of the grub is indicated | with Bordeaux mixture, starting when Stops and J es are of little value. the water dishes fan. map and tell exactly where Beg Eaad ® EB = &F 20 by a yellowish excrement on the out- | the vines begin to run and repeating ; TT . drain has its source, and just wi side of the stem. The only way to kill | every week or ten days until the crop T F Id I Found E kind of soil it is trying to drain. them is to split the vine caretutly with | i matured. ; : wo am eas 4 In lirope this Tap is an mesufate sutline a sharp knife and remove them, cover- Feme------ ach 8 in Shon ua. of each ing the wound with fresh earth. Trap Controlling Chicken Mites, By CHARLES P. HUNTINGDON. + Ll Saat al tin oth Phentte are often Hated or them 8) Probably one of the worst nuisances! During the war 1 "got across," and stables, gutters which allow no Haquid|1e jis sandy loam, it is so' marked The sich bos yo Hod stink that the average poultryman has t0/had an opportunity to study agricul-|to rim. off, cisterns, and tank wagons! ip thin, well-mellowed, well-fentili Bohiad a 216 oF wood: > ead ED aa contend with is the presence of mites| ture in France and Luxembourg. Two | are coming to be a part of our farm hut not sufficiently drained, it.is thus| ~ Corind a Pl Hes a hard Du to Kill, nor Brower. 4p, and about the chicken houses. It! things made a deep impression on me equipment. And with them is coming | marked. If it is heavy clay, under-| Ang there it lay and pondered, g uocumb- doesn't take a very ex © exam-| things which: we Canadians cana more profitable and more permanent 1.44 with hardpan, or if a washed hill-| Doin nothing all the time = nation to find them in nearly all parts| feqrn and practice to advantage. agriculture. | side, or if a depression exists, these| But thinking, thinking, thinking hard SA The first, and the one of greatest| Secondly, I was impressed with the! features are recorded. . And so I have| Among th dust and grime, be OO OO Xa in breaking the egg-laying record importance, is the high value which|oare and attention European farmers a complete picture of the farm before Unill #5 ey hod dua "Bach up your Tok wel aie un. 2h TE EE ih Frye place on manure. Not | @ive their livestock. It was untiring, me at my fireside, = ER eds ing tha oy ey) : drop ds wasted, and it is returned in|Dractical, and almost paternal. An AL : ' We do the rest--fair grading-- Hand she does not relish the thought 2 ; : highest prices--spot cash pay- ment. "Try us. A ps i» ; : This map-making has caused me to started in to run; g of nestling among them. Without| 1ts-eutirety, practically, to their folds. Rima} is, with them, almost a vever-|. 8 TP MIEENE Hoe That 3 started 10 to run : ne The farmers in, France and in-Luxem-| ént being. Once we had a good night's When Mrs. Brawn came out next day bourg do not live on their farms, but| rest continually disturbed by the fre- iE get a load of wood ©. WM. STONE SONS, LIMITED in little villages, going to and from|dquent going out to.the stable of the plant' in| She heard: the tit of : + 'WOODSTOCK, ONTARIO their flelds daily. Stock, "crops, andy family with whom we: were billeted.| jie ent fields, and to fertil<| .. And gl aly . Established 1870 people are all housed under the same o commotion Was! ize certain' sections e fields to] el oe : roof. And the manure pile is an et best results. whe ape ant HEX Desig a hora ~ ¥ ; +B ; it into' the house be de omnipresent part of the village home. 1 : put it in its place. Their presence can readily We used jokingly to say that we could |d4ys this he | it will g phir oT judge whether a family were wealthy | foal ; jae am "| best, i And the clock is or poor by the size of the manure|c® 0, yl : : ; ecrot it heap. And 'we were usually correct, When we first noticed the pretens tiousness of thess manure piles and | the careful manner in which they. were cared for, we thought that it was due | to France's serious food situation, and {to the that she had been in i Ef fiis : I: i