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ALFALFA-SEED PEST RESEMBLES THE GNAT Old Lady Number =31= By LOUISB FORSSLUND AurAor of " The Story of Sarah” "Th* Ship of Drvoms” tec. Alfalfa Seed Field With Check Ridges and Fence Lines Burned Over to De stroy Hibernating Larvae of the Chalcle-Fly. (Prepared by the United States Depart- I ment of Agriculture). the regular seed fields are sufficiently advanced for oviposltlon. This cutting should be done with the harvesting of each hay crop, be ' fore the seed crop is grown. , It is sometimes necessary to have two or more irrigation ditches run ning parallel, making it impracticable to cut the alfalfa between them. In such cases it is economy to fence the ditches and use this land as a i small summer pasture, thus prevent ing the development of alfalfa seed pods and the chalcts-flies. Copyright by rhe Century Co, CHAPTER XVI—Continued. The keeper went into the office with a somewhat hurried "Good night." and The alfalfa seed destroyer, known as soon Abe found himself alone again. the chalcis-fly, does its destructive the light in the kitchen beyond, no work in clover or alfalfa seeds, from sound In the room save that of the the Gulf coast.to the northern limits booming of the surf, the rattling of of the United States, according to the the windows, and now and again the United States department of agricul fall of a clinker in the stove. ture's specialist who has personally The old man wus surprised to And seen the widespread devastation of that he could not fall back into that this pest. By harvesting severely in blissful slumber again. Not sleeping, fested crops, by cleaning fence lines he had to think. He thought and and ditch banks, and by winter culti thought—sober night thoughts—while vation the grower of alfalfa seed may the oysters "laid like a log In his help to control this insect. A new Winter Cultivation. stummtck" and the coffee seemed to Farmers’ Bulletin. (No. C36) entitled In the process of harvesting th« stir his brain to greater activity. “The Chalcis-Flv in Alfalfa Seed,” seed crop many pods containing in “Suppose," said the intoxicated gives the details of these methods fested seeds fall to the ground. Here brain, "another big storm should of control, and may be had free of they remain until the following spring j swoop down upon you and the bay charge on application to the depart when the hibernating Insects emerge, should break up. and you and Samuel ment. although cultivation with an alfalfa should be imprisoned on the beach for The chalcis-fly under the microscope cultivator, at some time late tn the two or three months with a handful Is a formidable-looking insect but ! fall or in early winter, will sufficiently of men-folkBl" when seen in the field it is frequently cover such pods and will prevent the "Moo! Moo!” roared the breakers confused with the gnat. These pests emergence of most of the adults when on the shore. “Serve you right for may be seen in great numbers flying the warm weather arrives. finding fault with the sisters!” over alfalfa-seed shocks and swarm- i Destroying the Screenings. Come to think of it, if he had not Ing over the sickle bar when the al After the alfalfa Is thrashed the been so ungracious of Miss Abigail's falfa is being cut. The eggs are so great mass of screenings which is left concern for him, he would now be in small as to be invisible to the naked j frequently contains large numbers of possession of a hop pillow to lull him eye and are deposited through the seeds infested with hibernating larvae. back to sleep. Well, he had made ble soft, green seed pods directly into If the chaff, together with the screen bed, and he would havo to lie on it. the soft seeds when the pods are about | ings. is placed in a compost pile for although It was a hard old carpet-cov half-grown. Immediately upon becom- i three or four months, so that it will ered lounge. Having no hop pillow, (ng a fly, the insect eats its way out 1 become heated and decay, most of the he would count sheep— through the shells of the infested , insect life will be destroyed. Unless One sheep going over the fence, two seeds, then through the green pods. it is possible to treat the screenings sheep, three— How tired he was! Large portions of the seeds are hoi- I in this manner they should be burned How his bones ached! It'e no use lowed out in this manner, when they before the growing season opens in talking, you can't make an old dog do are still green and growing. the spring. the tricks of bis puppy days. What The infected seeds which still con Many of the alfalfa seed pods an idiot he had been to climb that tain the living larvae of the insect along check ridges and fence lines practise-mast! If he had fallen and may be recognized by their abnormal may be destroyed by burning off the broken his leg? shape and usually by the dull brown weeds and alfalfa. This should be Four sheep. Maybe he was too old color. Some of the Infested seeds, done either in the fall or early spring. for gallivanting, after all. Maybe he however, retain their natural color, I In purchasing alfalfa seed, farmers was too old for anything except just but they always lack the glossy ap should insist upon having seed which to be "mollycoddled" by thoughtful pearance of normal seeds. The ex- . has been well cleaned after thrash old ladles. Now, be honest with your tent to which alfalfa seed is damaged ing and should never plant the un self, Abe. Did you enjoy yourself to by the fly is not generally apparent, cleared product in new fields. day—no. yesterday? Did you? Well, owing to the minuteness of the insect yes and—no! Now, if Angy had been and because its destructive work is Easy to Make Good Butter. along! Accomplished within the growing I The buttermaker should realize Angy! That was why he could not seeds. The alfalfa-seed grower can that it is just as easy to make good go to sleep! He had forgotten to kiss only estimate the percentage of his • butter as it is to make poor butter. her good-by! Wonder if she had no crop destroyed by opening a large i The main secret is to keep the milk ticed it? Wonder if she had missed him more on account of that neglect? Pshaw! What nonsense! Angy knew he wa’n’t no band at kissln', and' It was apt to give him rheumatism to bend down so far as her sweet old mouth. He turned to the wall at the side of the narrow lounge, to the emptiness where her pillow should be. "Good night mother,” he muttered huskily. Mother did not anewer for the first time in nights beyond the counting. Mother would not be there to answer for at least six nights to come. A week, thought this old man, as the other old man had reflected a few hours before, is a long time when one has passed hfs threescore years and ten, and with each day sees the shad ows growing longer. Abraham put out his hard time- shrunken hand and touched In thought his wife's pillow, as If to persuade himself that she was really there in her place beside him. He remembered when first he had actually touched her pillow to convince himself that Bbe Alfalfa-Seed, or Clover-Seed Chalcls-Fly—A, Adult; B. Larvae; C, Pupa- was really there, too awed and too Much Enlarged. happy to believe that his youth's dream had come true; and he remem number of the seed pods and observ i utensils clean Use only good salt bered now how his gentle, strong ing the infested seeds i This is an exceedingly important mat hand had crept along the linen until Harvesting Infested Crops. ’ ter. A good way to test it is to dis it cupped itself around her cheek; and An alfalfa field is frequently found ' solve some in hot water. If the sail he had felt the cheek grow hot with with such a severe infestation by has a bad flavor it will be easily de blushes in the dasknese. She had not chalcis-flies that the grower considers tected. Sometimes a sediment will be been "mother” then; she had been It of insufficient value to be harvested seen In the bottom of the vessel. A "dearest!” Would she think that ho and simply drives in a herd of cows bad odor in butter many times 1« was growing childish if he should call to pasture the crop. With regard to caused by the use of poor Balt her "dearest” now. the control of the chalcls-fly for the Smiling to himself, he concluded protection of future seed production, The Kicking Horse. that he would try the effect of the ten this is a costly mistake. Obervations The cure of a "kicker'' is a difficult der term when he reached home again. show that many of the pods burst task. There are many remedies ad He drew hfs hand back, whispering open, while others are trampled to vised, but even the best is sometimes once more, "Good-night, mother.” the ground. Here great numbers of ineffectual. It may arise from vice, Then he fancied he could hear her say infested seeds offer favorable condi or from excessively nervous dlsposi In her soft, reassuring tone, "Good tions for the hibernation of the chal tfon. One of the common appliances night, father.” Father turned his cis-fly larvae. These, as mature flies, used is to swing a bale of straw be back on the empty wall, praying with will Infest the seed crops the follow hind the horse, so that he may kick a sudden rush of passionate love that ing spring. Under such circumstances until he is tired, without doing Injury when the last call should come for the crop should be mowed, removed to himself. The bale will swing to him, it would be after he had said from the field, and staked. It may and fro, and irritate to the point of "Good-nlghL mother,” to Angy and then be used as rough fodder; and persuasion that there are more profit after she had said "Good-night, fa if the remaining straw is burned in able vices than kicking. ther,” to him, and that they might early spring the hibernating larvae wake somewhere, somehow, together will be destroyed. 8ort the Apples. with God, saying, “Good-morning, Cleaning Fence Lines and Ditch Banks. If apples in the bln or storage cel mother,” “Good-morning, . fatherl” The following facts emphasize the lar are assorted occasionally and ths And "Fair is the day!” importance of cutting the alfalfa along rotten and speckled apples thrown ditch banks and fence lines, as well out, it will lessen the number of dis CHAPTER XVII. as in the fields: ease spores among the good apples 1. The earliest seed pods are found and check decay. These spores are Ths Deserter. to develop on the isolated and vigor produced from a fungus which pro At dawn the station was wide awake ous growing plants found in such duces rot and everybody out of bed. Samuel places. crept downstairs in his stocking feet, 2. The earliest pods have an espec Clean Milk and Butter. hie boots In his hand, his eyes heavy ially large percentage of the seeds It is impossible to produce clean with sleeplessness, and his wig awry, Infested with chalcis-fly larvae. milk In dirty surroundings, and equal lie shivered as he drew close to the 3. The chalcis-fly larvae are able ly Impossible to produce goon butter fire, and asked In one breath for a to pass completely through the first where the milk has been exposed to prescription for chilblains and where generation la the earliest pods before miscellaneous odors. might Abe be. Abe's lounge was oiupty and his blankets uuatly folded upon It. The sunrise patrol from the «eat. who had just returned, made reply that bo had met Captain Abo walking | Gong the surf to get up an appetite ! for his griddlocakes and salt pork. ' Samuel sat down suddenly on the I lounge and opened his mouth. "Didn't he have enough exercise yist'day, for mercy's sake! Put' nigh killed ms. I was (hat tired las' night I couldn’t sleep a wtuk. I declar', et j twan't fer that had nuwsiaper ar I coinin' out ternlght I'd go home ter- ' day. Yer a gwtno acrost, hain't yer. I Havens?” Havens laughed in response. Sam uel glowered at hint. "I want home comforts back,** ho vowed sullenly. "The beach hain’t what It used ter be. Goin' on a pic nic with Abe Rose la like settln* yer teeth into a cast-iron stove lid covered with a thin layer o' puddin’. I’m a goin' home." The keeper assured him that no one would attempt to detain him If he found the station uncomfortable, and that If ho preferred to leave Abraham behind the whole force would take pleasure In entertaining the more active old man. "That old feller bates a phono graph,” affirmed the Irishman, “it’s good ter hoar that he'll bo left any how for comp'ny with this storm *- comln' up." Samuel rushed to the window, for upstairs the panes had been too frosty for him to see out A storm coming up? The beach did look gray and des olate, dun-colored In the dull light of the early day. with the winter killed grass and the stunted green growth of cednr and holly and pine only making splotches of darkness under a gray sky which was filled with scurrying clouds. The wind, too, had risen dur ing the night, and the Increased roar of the surf was telling of foul weather ut sea. A storm threatening! And the pleas ant prospect of being shut in ut the beach with the cast Iron Abraham and these husky life-savers for the re mainder of the winter! No doubt Abe would Insist upon helping the men with the double duties Imposed by j thick weather, and drag Samuel out I on patrol. “When dew yew start. Havens?” demanded Samuel In shaking tones. "La's get off afore Abe gits back an’ tries ter hold me. He seems ter be so plagued stuck on the life over here, he'll think 1 must be tew.” But, though Havens had to wait for the return of the man who hail gon« off duty yesterday morning, still Abe had not put In an appearance when Samuel and th« life saver trudged down the trail through the woods of the bay. As he stepped into the scooter Samuel's conscience at last began to prick him. "Yew sure the men will look arter the old fellow well an' not let him overdew ?” But the whizz of the flight had al ready begun and the scooter's nose was set toward Twin Coves, her sail skimming swiftly with the ring of the steel against the Ice over the shining surface of th« bay. "law, yes,” Samuel eased his con science; "of course they will. They couldn't hurt him, anyhow. 1 never seen anybody take so kindly ter hard enln' as that air Abe." CHAPTER XVIII. Samuel’s Welcome. The shore at Twin Coves was a somewhat lonely spot, owing to stretches of marshland and a sweep of pine wood that reached almost to the edge of the water. Samuel, however, having ■ Indicated that he wished to be landed at the foot of a path through the pln?s, found himself on the home shore scarcely ten minutes after he had left Bleak Hill—Havens already speeding toward his home some miles to the eastward, the bay seemingly deserted except for his Hall, a high wind blowing, and the enow beginning to fall In scattered flakes. Samuel picked up his grip, trudged through the heavy sand of the nar row beach, and entered tho sweet smelling pine wood. He wan stiff with cold after the rough, swift voyage; his feet alone were hot—burning hot with chilblains. Away down in his heart he was uneasy lest some harm should come to Abe and the old man be caught in the approaching storm on the beach. l!ut, oh, wasn't he glad to be home! His house was still half a mile away; but he was once more on good, solid, dry land. “1’11 tell Blossy haow that air Abe Rose behaved," he reassured himself, when he pictured his wife’s aston ished and perhaps reproachful greet ing, “an‘ then she won't wonder that I had ter quit him an' come back.” He recollected that Angy would be there, and hoped fervently that she might not prove so strenuous a charge ae Abraham. Moreover, he hoped that she would not so absorb Blossy's at tention as to preclude a wifely minis tering to his aching feet and the appli cation of "St. Jerushy lie” to his lame and sore back. The torture of the feet and back made walking harder, too, than he had believed possible with the prospect of relief so near. As he limped along he was forced to pause every now nnd again and set down the carpetbag, sometimes to rub hts back, sometimes to seat himself on a stump and nurse for a few moments one of those de mon-possessed feet. Could he have made any progress at all if he had not known that at home, no matter If there wae company, there would at least be no Abe Rose to keep him go ing, to spur him on to unwelcome action, to force hliu to prove hlmanli out of shear self raepeol th« equal, if not th« superior, tn masculine strength ? AI ms had l«<l him that chaati over at th« station, .‘tamuol was convinced, "•-purpose” to punish him for having so soundly borated him whan ho lay The thrill of health and vig a bod. That was all tho thanks you or can only be experienced ever got fur doing things for "«urn« when the digestion is nor folks." mal, the liver active and the Samuul hobbled onward. his brow Any dis knit with angry reaeutmenL Did ever bowels regular. a half mil« ««win so long, and had h« turbance of these functions actually bvun only twenty threw hours should suggest an immediate from home and Bloasy? Oh. oh! his back and his feel! Oh. tho weight of trial of that bag! How much ho needed sloopl How good It would bo to have Bloasy tuck him under tho covers, nnd give him a hot lemonade with a stick of ginger In It! If only ho had hold of Abe Rose now to tell him hls opinion of him! Well, he reflected, you have to summer nnd winter with a person before you can It is a tonic, appetizer and know them. Thin one l>ecembor day strength maker 01 well known and night with Abu had boon equal to the revelations of a dozen seasons ability, and will help Nature Tho next time Hiuuuel tried to do good restore health and vigorto the to anybody more than sixty five, he'd entire digestive system. know IL The uoxt time ho wus per suaded Into leaving his wife for over night, he'd know that, too. Various inanuula for the young husband, which he had consulted, to the contrary not I ALL RIGHTS RXSSRVSO withstanding, the place for a married man was at home. , Keep Kids Klecn Samuel sat down on a fallen tree 1 >,e i which marked the halfway point be In»«tttr4 fur chU4f*« I tv I year« uf a««. Ma-U I« plot« tween hls place and th« bay. Tho last with •••tir »11^4 us» od half of the journey would seem short uA. ttaailr wwl><4. N« <!<•»• alante ba>»4a to au<f rtrrwhdUn er. and. ut th« end, there would be Mi l« It» blu* danim. •«**! I4«ae Bloasy smiling a welcome, for he • bM hhkofy «tti^<» fu« Sii Ih« year r<M»i4. Al»» li|Mrr w«i«Lt never doubted but that Bloasy would matrfial fur mmmmc w « m . AU tie glad to see him. She thought a gat metile t HinwMb »*4 •’» blu* caletre. AIU» I m I’ufch •»«» b good deal of him. nor had she been • Ut» rita» sleet re * m 4 M(h especially anxious for that week of un. h a»4 aieora. separation. 75c the suit Ills face smoothed Its troubled frowns Into a look of shining anticipa tion tho look that Samuel's fuco had worn when first ho ushered Bloasy Into his tidy little home and murmured FREE"»!" huskily: "Ml«' Darby, you're master o' the Lavi vessel naow. I'm jest fo'castle hand." Forgetting all his aches, hls pains, hls resentments, Samuel took a pep Best Household Goat. permint lozenge out of hls pocket, Th« man of high descent may love rolled It under hls tongue, and walked th« balls and lands of hls Inheritance on. Presently, as ho saw the light of as a part of himself, as trophies i f hls the clearing through the trees, be birth and power; the poor man's at broke Into a run—an old man's trot— tachment to tho tenement h« bolds, thus proving conclusively that his which strangers have held before and worry of lumbago and chilblains had may tomorrow occupy again, has a been merely a wrongly diagnosed case worthier root, stuck deep Into a of homesickness. purer soil Ills household gods ar« He grinned as he pictured Abo's dis of flesh and blood, with no alloy of sli may on returning to th« station to ver. gold or precious stonea -Charles find him gon«. Still, he reflected, Dickens. maybe Abe would have a better time alone with the young fellows, he had rot ■ own net ut.isr will tiii you atrry grown so plagued young himself all of | Fry MuNnt Kyo KriusMy fur Kr.|, \\ y and OranulaUHf ayulidu, No Hmarting - a sudden. Samuel surely need not K t> Comfort Write for Hook ut Jir iya y tuall Free, Morine Eye item**!/ Co , Chi» Agu. worry about him. Mor« and more good matured grew Samuel's face, until a soclablo rabbit, Almost Perfect Ideal. peeping at him from behind a bush, A faithful friend of all that la best, decided to run a raco with tho old j a brave sufferer from Im-urnhle bur gentleman, and hopped fearlessly out dens, In a private letter sends this con Into the open fession, which wo commend to thoM (TO UK CONTINUED.) morn favored of circumstances, less consecrated In th« center stances of MADE UP OF SMALL THINGS life: "My Ideal 1s every day to spread a llttlo truth, a little kindness, a llttlo Even the Most Insignificant Word« beauty, but alas, how often I fall!” Give Yourself a fair Chance HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS f KO VE RALLS' and Acts May Be Productive of Joy or the Reverse. 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