The principal culprits are the ox-war BCOXOMY IX BL'YIX G
ble, aud various biting flies and ticks.
W V SA O*t*.
WtU grow in the
I Horses, sheep and other farm animals Cheaper Cuts. Well Cooked. Equal to
bouM or out or
Most Expensive In Flavor and
are subject to attacks of similar para
Nutritive Quality.
sites and other Insect enemies, if all
AMERICAN CR|
INSECT DEPREDATIONS.
Crvt-u*. Fuchsia*.
these be considered including, for ex
By Ida Finney.
Oxali*. Tul^rose*.
Begonia,
Jonquil*,
ample, the buffalo- gnats, often very
Daffodil«. ChlneM
“Roasts are bought good ones Md
The Annual Loss Occasioned by Destructive
destructive in the South, the many after one meal the bone and the rest
Lily, Dewey Lily.
gadflies,
botflies,
the
screw-worm
fly,
Insects in the United States.
■”
the meat is thrown away. I dont nr pnln A«* premium with these nulb* »-■
we will send
and such parasites as the ticks aud lice, of
FBll abii coflSctionof flower seed*—over >00 kind*.
CUV ELLIOTT MITCHELL.
a heavy percentage of loss must be know whether women are too lazy, or HILLSIDE NURSIRV, aOMtHVILLI. MAM.
they actually dohit know how
Farmers of the United States in ad- .corn rootworm. The chinch worm i reckoned. A conservative estimate of whether
*s a green soap, consistency of -J
make the soups which they could
I dltlon to county. State and national causes depredations nearly as severe as 1 the Department of Agriculture of these to
make out of so little. See the Ger
cleanser for automobile
-1
TOE FIRE EXGIXE DRIVER.
i taxes, probably pay a much heavier the above mentioned insects, making ! losses is >175,000,000 a year.
man women. They can make you a
vehicles; will not Injure th, J
toll than they do to all three of the another .oss of >20,000,000 annually. i
meal
that
is
good
out
of
a
scrap
°f
Stored
Products
Preyed
Upon.
surface. Made from -I
above. The tax collector In this latter Every year the Department receives
There May be Better Drivers o" polished
oils. If your dealer does r .tca^j
While mention has been made of the meat and two or three cents worth
case is one which is merciless and reports from different sections of the i
Earth,
but
If
There
Are,
Where
of
vegetables.
But
American
women,
Crown Soap in stock, send ho.l
overbearing, paying no attention what country describing Injury to corn by lamage done to vegetable products dur-
Are They?
and Ve will see that,
ever to the necessities or obligations of such insects as billbugs, the various i ing the growing and maturing season, the most of them, dont know how,
Is there a better driver in the world address
supplied.
Put up in 12), 25
and
they
dont
’
seem
to
learn.
F
or
in
,
these
crops
after
they
have
run
the
the agriculturist each year, calling for wireworms. cutworms, army worms,
than
the
man
who
drives
the
fire
en
gauntlet of insect enemies during their stance, take a chuck piece of beef or gine? If there is, he is yet to be dis-
bls dues unremittingly, and gloating
entire period of growth, are still sub a cut of the lower round, and H a
over the misfortunes of his tenant.
ject to the inroads of insect depreda young housekeeper only thought so she covered.
The tax collector in this case, however,
Here was an engine coming along
tors while in storage on the farm, in could make some good dishes out or
Is the Insect. The losses resulting
_______ CHICAGO m.
elevators and mills, or again while in it that her husband would enjoy eating, a cross street, to turn up an Inter
from the depredations of Insects on
transit especially in the case of long and praise, too. A good stew cooked secting avenue. Under the edge of the
all plant products of the soil, both in
shipments by sea. Food products in slowly in the oven; a pot roast, beer rounded-off corner where the machine
their growing and in their stored state/
the kitchen and house-storeroom suf a la mode, or a meat pie; and especial was to turn there was a sewer opening,
together with those on livestock, ex
fer from insect damage. Animal pro ly good, nourishing soups. But they with the street pavement sloping down
ceed the entire expenditures of the Na
ducts are attacked by larder beetles, think they must have steaks and roasts smoothly toward it all around from the
tional Government, Including the pen-
etc., fruits by various fruit and vine _ the best cuts—and if not those they higher general level of the street.
Blon roll, and the maintenance of the
If the driver, coming as he was at a
THE CODLING MOTH.
gar flies and the woolen3 and house resort to canned meats.
We’re
army and the navy. Enormous as is
(Magnified)
TO BOYS
hold furnishings by beetles, moths, here to sell meat, only I do bate to see dead gallop, should make a broad turn
the total value of all farm products of
this country it often would be much stalk-borers, various species of locusts silver fish, etc. Cured tobacco Is es people throwing their money away. around this corner, out where the
Just
send us your name
The butcher was a thrifty German, street was level, the engine would
greater were it not for the injurious or grasshoppers, corn plant lice and pecially subject to insect attacks and
and address bo that we may
tell you how to Ret thia tine
work of insects. According to figures other insects. This undoubtedly causes damage, the most important source of and knew what economy meant. The swing more or less, thus checking the
rifle Absolutely FREE.
compiled by the Department of Agri a Ices of an additional >20,000,000, or injury being a minute Insect known as truth of his statement is proven every horses' speed, and there would be a
YOU CAN HAVE ONE
culture the estimate is made that the with a total annual loss to the corn the cigarette beetle which not only day in the big markets. Steaks and second or two lost before they could
Ajjwe are going to give away
eats Into cigarettes but all other forms roasts, roasts and steaks—these are get the load straightened and get under
total value of farm products during the crop of >80,000,000.
5.000 of them. We mean It, every
last year amounted to >5,000,000,000.
Of a large number of Insects which of cured tobacco. While an estimate the standbys. And if, by chance, the full headway with it once more, up
word, and thia la an honeet
straightforward offer, made by
The Bureau of Entomology, of the depredate wheat crops, the three im of >100,000,000 a year is placed upon cheaper cuts of meat are suggested, the avenue. But if the driver could
an upright business firm who
Department of Agriculture, being fa portant species are the Hessian fly, the the damage done to the store products, oftentimes the reply will me: “Oh, but make that corner with the two wheels
always do exactly as they agree.
All we aek Is that you do a few
on the inner side of the curve down
miliar with the work of the important chinch bug and ‘he grain plant louse. this does not include the destruction to my family likes only the best cuts.
minutes work for U8. It ia bo very
eaay that you will beBurpnaed.
Insect pests, estimates the probable While the chinch bugisnotablya wheat i products in the household or to tobacco.
I always feel sorry for the house in that sloping depression leading to
This Handsome Rifle isnota
A very considerable item which keeper who speaks thus, feeling sure the sewer opening close by the curb,
shortage due to insect damage at a pest. Its damage to other cereals and
toy air rifle, but ia a genuine I
steel, blue barrel, hunting rifle,
minimum of 10 per cent, while in varied crops Is very considerable. The might be chargeable to Insects and yet she is Ignorant of the nutritive value and the two outside wheels on the
that is strong, aocurate and eats
which cannot be estimated is that of and delicate flavor of the “cheap cuts" higher level nearer the middle of the
and carries a 22 calibre long or
short cartridge. If you want a fine
preventing insect damage. No one can when properly cooked. And the un street, the higher level here would be
little hunting rifle, just write and
estimate how much is expended on fortunate fact is that many house for the engine what the banked up
aek us for particulars. They are
free and you will surely say it1» the
wire screens for the household to pre keepers leave this important matter to outer rail Is for the locomotive round
beat offer you ever saw or heard of,
vent the ingress of flies, mosquitoes the ignorant and unskillful servant.
ing a curve, making it so he wouldn’t
BE SUREand WRITE ATONCE
and moths, nor can an estimate be
Happening into the kitchen of a lose an inch. And that’s the way he
before the 5,000 rifles are all gone,
placed upon the amount of money ex friend at four o’clock one afternoon 1 did make it.
as the boys are taking them fast
Address
pended to eradicate mosquitoes, but it saw
,
Before he knew it a man who had
the negro cook drop a piece of
is believed that the estimate of >700,- meat,
;
evidently intended for a stew, been standing at the edge of this cor
Peoples Popular Monthly,
000,000* made by the officials of the into
j
a kettle of cold water and light ner, waiting to sei- the engine go by,
560 Manhattan Building,
DES MOINES. IOWA.
Department of Agriculture is far below the gas under it. “Pearl, what are saw it bo near to him and pushing in
the actual annual loss. The problem you doing,” I asked.
so close to him that he could have
the economic entomologist of the fu
“Putting de meat on io dinner. It’s touched it. The driver, aloft in his
ture must solve is the lessening or pre a little late, but ill boll it hard and high seat leaning inwards as he was, BOOKS—BOO
vention of this loss.
maybe it'll git done by six o’clock. too, actually hanging over him as the
We have published some good on
Howsomever, dey’s got to eat it, for we engine passed, with whistle screaming
ain
’t got nothin’ else.”
and steam hissing, and that driver, as ially suited for farmers. Books that»
A Seedless Persimmon.
Here was a good piece of beef, a he flung ’em in this fashion ’round this every farmer to make more out oil
The latest sensation in the seedless rather expensive cut, too, utterly curve, was talking low to his horses Write for our catalogue.
fruit line reported at Washington is ruined by the cooking. The cold water and calling on ’em each by name—a
a seedless persimmon. The officials drew out the juices and the rapid boil man absorbed if there ever was one.
WEBB PUBLISHING
of the Department of Agriculture ti_c ing hardened the fibers, with the result
St. Paul BI inn«
other day received a visit from Mi. that the finished product was not fit
Substitute for a Duel.
John H. Drury, who brought with him to put in any human stomach. And it
A new humor has been added to the
a specimen of seedless native persim- should have been such an appetizing
mons from his place near the national and thoroughly satisfying dinner. Both French duel. A. M. de Groze had an
engagement with swords with a M.
capital.
the mistress and the maid were ignor
The general impression is that the ant and indifferent concerning the Carillot. At the last moment he sent
PREPARING TO FUMIGATE AN ORANGE TREE.
seedless persimmon is either non-ex question of the daily food for the fam word that be would ndt fight, but was
sending his second in his stead. Hap
years of excessive Insect damage the losses from depredations of this insect istent or nearly so in this country. A ily.
pily the second acquitted himself so
■hortage may amount to 50 per cent. on wheat in single States have ranged seedless variety of this fall luxury is
brilliantly that the principal's absence
Didn’t Know a “Pot Roast”
The annual shortage of 10 per cent, is between >10,000,000 and >20,000,000 in not, however, a new thing, but, on the
To a neighbor complaining of the was not felt, for he actually shed some
a low estimate, which is more often one year. A very reasonable average other hand, a number of trees are scat
Thia i eatur,
exceeded than fallen below, and Indi annual estimate of loss, taking the tered throughout the South bearing size of the meat bills was suggested of his adversary’s gore. It was a de
.olid alueld i
between th, —
cates at current farm prices a money country aB a whole, would Indicate seedless persimmons. Seedless speci the plan of buying cheaper cuts. A lightful touch, the courtesy of not dis
head and th, an
loss of >500,000,000—the minimum about >20,000,000 a year chargeable to mens are occasionally found in the big “pot roast" was suggested as a substi appointing a waiting antagonist, but
at all time» then
empties e way fret
yearly tax which insects lay on the this insect. While in some years the Japanese variety and they are rather tute for the expensive “prime ribs." sending instead a nice, obliging friend
products of the farm. This estimate, damage caused by Ilessian fly is enor rare and the flavor is nothing to be “Why, what is a pot roast?" she asked. te pink him.
compared
to
the
native
sort.
And that little woman, with a husband
however, does not include the damage mous, taking the average of ten years,
Roosevelt Translates Gaelic.
A number of instances are known by on a moderate salary, was trying to
caused to farm products in storage, the loss to the wheat crop caused by
P8 ino DUQOiltS
President Roosevelt in the near fu
the
officials
of
the
Bureau
of
Plant
In
run the house. She was about as well
ibstructed. Til
such as cereals and forage crops and this bug has a value of >40,000,000, and
KRL1N MtJ
to natural forests and forest products, so on, numerous other Insects and dustry of solitary persimmon trees fitted for the work, as far as knowledge ture may publish for private circula
works , easily ul
tion
a
book
of
Irish
poems
which
he
assigning at least >100,000,000 to each pests lay toll on the wheat crop of the bearing seedless fruit, but when pollen and skill were concerned, as a child
■moothly, makinfM
little noise. Ourii
of these two Items. The total annual farmer. Were it not for their destruc from other persimmon trees in the ten years old. And the pity of it was translated from the Gaelic. The Presi
automat io recoil-*,«
dent
was
taught
Gaelic
by
James
Jef
tax then chargeable to insects is tive work the wheat crop of the coun neighborhood is brought in contact that the husband was straining every
atinr l-’ckinr derf
frey
Roche.
with
the
flowers
of
the
seedless
sort
makes the Marlin tq
nerve and working overtime to make
>700,000,000 annually.
try this year would be 20 per cent,
•alesi breech-briri
the
resultant
fruit
will
be
full
of
seed.
the money to keep things going.
The Item of loss from Insect damage greater.
fun ever built ri
An
O
’
er
True
Tale.
The
fruit
brought
to
the
Department
not only includes the actual destruc
page catalofU*, Wl
Insect Damage to Hay.
lustrations, cowl
of Agriculture by Mr. Drury proves to A little knowledge; a little skill
tion or injury to crops, but the esti
“
Does
anyone
know
how
to
make
a
nine colors, uuurir
Will
save
the
stomach
and
fill
the
till,
j
Hay
and
forage
crops
are
damaged
mate must also Include a very Import by numerous insects to an extent of be a little smaller than the average
Maltese cross?” asked the Instructor
three sumps,
.
If the courses in cookery in the pub- in
1 architecture. “Yes,” answered the
ant item—the amount of money de about 10 per cent. The cotton crop is native persimmon. The specimens
The Merlin RnAmU
when
cut
across
were
absolutely
seed
voted to Insect control. This amounts reduced through the agency of the
lie schools of to-day succeed in teach- son
i
New Haven,Coal
of the Chief of the Naval Board,
to a very considerable percentage of cotton boll-weevil, the boll worm and less and while the fruit was compara ing the girls that much needed lesson “ ‘ Step on her tail.”
tively small it had really more meat of economy in buying aud proper prep-
the value of the caop in the case of
orchard fruits, truck cropB and such
field crops as cotton and tobacco. For
Instance in estimating the losses due to
tlie codling moth It has been shown l>y
By II. D. Hemenway.
figures of the Department of Agricul
ture that over >8,000,000 a year is ex
This suggestive little book is a practical manual of school gardening for 1
CORN IMPAIRED BY GRAIN MOTH,
pended in spraying apple trees, allow
teacher and pupil, and supplies the first adequate work of the sort in this cows
ing a cost of only 5 cents per tree. the leafworm, while many other in
This
volume is based on actual experience (the author is an authority and dird
The cost of gassing and spraying citrus sects inflict minor damage. Without
of the Hartford School of Horticulture).
fruit trees ranges from 5 cents to >1.50 counting the losses due to the latter
per tree. Another source of loss is class of depredators we have a total
CONTENTS: Introduction; Howto Make a Garden; Twenty-One Lea
that occasioned by a diminution of cer loss of more than >40,000,000 charge
Garden Work-—May to September; Bibliography; Lessons in Greenhouse Wi
able
to
the
three
Important
insect
tain crops such as wheat or cotton.
anting Seed, Potting, etc.; Root Grafting; Lessons in Budding.
pests of cotton.
Size, 5x7; pages, 107; binding, cloth; illustrations, 26.
Vegetable and other truck crops are
especially subject to insect injury, and
By special arrangement with Doubleday, Page & Co., I am able for the pro
furthermore in the case of these crops
to make the following
°
there is always a large expenditure
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for the control of Insects. The orchard
and smaller fruits suffer heavier loss
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cause of the expensive methods of rieties.
are so abundantly supplied, and can be
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treatment necessary to prevent still
It
Is
understood
that
the
Depart
greater losses. There are several hun ment of Agriculture will keep watch extended to reach every school in the 1 u i j , published in America. To take advantage of this special offer, on
dred insects which depredate on the on the Drury persimmon tree and at land, they will serve a great purpose, should be sent at once to II. D. Hemenway, Hartford, Connecticut.
and the benefit to the coming genera __ _________ _ Thia offer may be withdrawn at any time,
roots, trunk, foliage and fruit of the
right season endeavor to make tion will be incalculable.
apple. The important pests are the the
some
grafts
of
the
seedless
buds
upon
woolly aphis, injuring the roots; the
stock and try to breed a l race
trunk and limb borers, the leafworms, other
canker-worms and tent caterpillars, of seedless persimmons.
A Woman's Beautiful Memorial.
and the various scale insect pests, in
cluding the San Jose scale. Injuring
TUE ARTIFICIAL LIFE,
A beautiful memorial to a noble wo
The Great Home Magazine of America
the fruit are the codling moth, the
man will be maintained henceforth in
cucullo, and the apple maggot.
thl“
Ottar tor • limited time only.
the
little city of Pasadena, CaL, the
Consists In Part In Eating Adulter
The insect losses to other deciduous
home of the late Helen Peabody
ated and Injurious Foods.
fruits are quite as heavy as in the
The State Board of Health of Massa founder of the Western College for
case of the apple and especially when
Women at Oxford, Ohio. Miss Pea
the treatments for the San Jose scale chusetts has had chemical analyses body. who died recently, provided In
Our
and other scale pests are considered; made of prepared foods and the report her will that her Pasadena residence
and in the case of citrus fruits the cost of the Board shows ijhat we really eat one of the loveliest In that lovely town'
Limite«
In
the
course
of
everyday
life.
When
of treatment is much greater and the
we use pepper, we also get gTound
actual losses again heavier.
•HIE HESSIAN FLY.
Offer
Forests—especially planted forests of nutshell and fruit stones with a little
(MaguUl<Hl)
artificially wooded areas on farms— pepper mixed In. Mustard consists
Shortage may so Increase values as to pay toll to numerous borets, which chiefly of wheat flour and turmeric,
this latter is an East Indian saffron
occasion the shutting down of mills.
colored root with an acrid and pungent
A shortage of a finished product such
Our Prtc*
taste. When we use lime juice we get
as flour, cotton or fabrics, may mean
only
a little of the juice with 40 to 63 per
a corresponding loss to transportation
cent, water, the whole preserved with
companies aud to shippers. In other
sulphurous, salicylic or benzoic acid.
words shortage in an important pro
One Year
Ale is preserved with salicylic acid'
duct starts a train of losses to the
also porter and likewise beer; “pure
end of the chapter, the total amount
Vermont” maple syrup Is nothing more
of which is quite beyond calculation or
than cane syrup. Canned clams are
Mtlmate.
preserved with boric acid.
Cereals Damage«* Most.
While this revelation of the Massa
The cereals suffer most from Insect
chusetts authorities Is something aw
Express Prepaid
«
damage, the yearly amount of loss ag
ful to contemplate, yet we are stag
gregating >200.000.000.
The leading
gered by a further report of the Board
Light V Is., Strongly and Richly BoundL Red Vellum de Luxe clotty
cereal erop of the United States, of
which shows that an enterprising
course, is king corn, with a value last
chemist has discovered that the odor
year of >1.216,000.000. While corn Is
of spoiled eggs can be neutralized
less subject to insect damage aud
oc^nc»Tof7nUrnUa"JnahSS? »«bjert. are treated at length. The Wot /THE
through the addition of formaldehyde.
wheat next, the most important cereal,
War Panama a Ina
ln'
lVfh »’ the Ru»o-Jap«nw Itiapute and .
Since this discovery a number of es
'sbvce
which is the corn product, would be
tablishments have ei tereil into the
coMFri
kconslderably greater were It not for
business of collecting bad eggs, treat
Important insect pests. The corn root
WMbi"««'*1
ing them with formaldehyde arid Bell
NE* It»
worm causes an annual average loss
ing the mixture to bakers, who use it TREE PROPERLY BANDED TO RESISm
on X
Herewith And P*'
of at least 2 per cent of the crop or COTTON BUD ATTACKED BY BOLL In cake and othpr foods sold to the
CODLING MOTH.
non-essentials.
on
tver
J
object
without
wasting
words
"Xwhl.h
«nd
n*. el»^
some >20.000.000. The next most im
public. While the addition of formal
WORM
Xchararo propani.
>
portant Insect pest of this cereal Is often almost utterly destroy the trees, dehyde utterly destroys any bad odor, should be used henceforth as a “rest-
x cental KneycloP-11*' I
SAT,SF*CT!ON
r »nd Snei-eee M»»»>
the bollworm or earworm. This in as In the case of the black locust, to the process renders the eggs extremely
Weary Christians eitoer
-----------...-----n aderet*',
sect. according to the Bureau of Euto- leaf defoliators and many other varie hurtful to the human system. Form to £
or forel*n field, and is
mology. probably attacks from 90 to ties of depredating insects.
erly the mixture of bad eggs was sold Ito mi11 W the House of Beat.” For
by yoa.
100 per cent, of the ears of sweet corn
to leather manufacturers, but since * t
¿b°?t ,8 00° has been
Cattle the Prey of Insects.
willed all her
FUI out this coupon and send In
throughout the country and the dam
this later discovery the price of mixed Mt as.de. Miss Peabody
the
Advancementof
The losses due to biting and para eggs has risen from 16 centa pur - uc
age caused by this pest is probably
TODAY.
H
AddlW
nearly as great as that caused by the sitic Insects of cattls are considerable. to more than a dollar.
Thl* oW” ■« limited to F,n. Irt.. too«.
CbwX
the ^byterii
X r rik.ii
SOA
James S. Kirk I c«
5.000 Rifle,.
FREE
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