iff* THE ASPARAGUS BEETLE. To Exterminate Tliln Pe«t for Iml Year Active Operation* Mum! lie Couimeuced .Now. The common asparagus beetle needs no description other than the illus tration given herewith from a drawing by F. 11. Chittenden, United States de partment of agriculture. It is not practical to spray old beds from which asparagus is being cut for the de struction of this pest. The beetles cluster upon the young shoots just as they are coming through the ground; even at times going below the sur face. attacking the young plants. In old beds, several stalks should be per mitted to stand in each row at inter vals of about two rods. These stalks throw out leaves aud the beetles con- ASPARAGUS BEETLE IN VARIOUS STAGES. centrate upon them, feed for a short time, and then deposit their eggs. These trap plants can be sprayed thoroughly with parisgreen ard water at the rate of four ounces in 40 gal lons. The poison can be applied dry by mixing one pound of paris green in 100 pounds of common flour or land plaster. The insects attacking young buds should be collected by hand at first. A couple of small boys with tin pails or pans containing about one pint of water and a teacupful of kerosene can catch the beetles by bending the young plants over the vessel and shaking them slightly, care being taken not to break them off. As soon as the plants begin to leaf out, they can be sprayed or dusted with paris green. If the young larvae or worms are brushed off on the dry, hot, sandy soil, during the middle of the day, many of them are destroyed. The fight in combating this pest should begin now to save the crop both this and next year. As soon as the cut ting season is over and before the old vines have become veritable breeding beds for the beetle, spray or dust thor oughly. The insects spend the win ter as adults and hide any place they can find protection. If, therefore, the early and late broods are destroyed, the greatest number of them can be prevented from reaching maturity. If the first brood now depositing its eggs is fought persistently, the second gen eration will not be so difficult to han dle. If both broods are allowed to breed without any attempt to destroy them, next year's asparagus crop will be in great danger.—Orange Judd Farmer. RAIN AND SUNSHINE. SclentiMt* Claim They Are the lie terminiii u' Factor* in i<"l:tvoriiif£ llerriew and Melon*. There are years when fruit has not the flavor usually belonging to it. Es pecially is this the case with straw berries and melons. On investigation it is found that rainfall and sunshine are the principal factors in determin ing flavors. In very wet seasons fruits grow large, but contain little sugar. In dry seasons much more sugar is elaborated, and this sugar enters very largely into the indefin able something we call flavor. I'rof. Troop, of Indiana, touching on the same subject, says: "An excessive amount of rain is undoubtedly one of the chief causes of trouble. It is a well-known fact that during ;« very wet season strawberries are of much poorer quality, containing a less amout of sugar, than when the ripen ing season is comparatively dry. The same is true with muskmeJons; the crop may be larger during a wet sea son, the fruit may be finer in ap pearance, but the sugar content which gives the melon its delicious flavor is comparatively low. Hence it frequently happens that a variety may give good satisfaction one sea son, and be very unsatisfactory the next. Thorough drainage, either nat urally or artificially, will do much to ward preventing tr o v. 1 /'" from this scarce. The n»c of fertilizers, rich in potash and phosphoric acid, will have a tendency to produce a fruit of high quality." It is doubtless true that se lection of varieties for planting will do much to give flavor, even in a wet season, t The Fruit Hark Ilcetl*. A pest discussed at some length in a recent New York bulletin is the fruit bark beetle. This was especial ly prevalent last season and did much damage in peach orchards in western New York, and in some scat tered plum and cherry plantations. On peaches its principal injury was due to punctures of the bark on the trunk and larger limbs, through which the sap oozed and formed gum my excrescences. On plum and cher ry, however, more injury was done by punctures in the twigs, causing death of the foliage. The natural home of this insect is in dead bark, so all brush piles and dead trees should be removed from the orchards. Caustic washes upon trunks and branches eerve as a preventive measure, and cutting off and burning the infested f.wigs destroys many of the btetles. USE OF PETROLEUM. Eipirlpnce Shown Thai It Often D»> atrojn Tree* a« W ell «* the In nt-i'tN Thut liifi-nl Them, The varying and sometimes disas trous results obtained from the use of refined petroleum on growing trees as an insecticide, and especially against the San Jose scale, have led to the sus picion that the crude product might be less variable and drastic iti its ef fects. Hut so far as it has been used itwould appear that we have yet much to learn before we can with safety recommend the application of the crude product to the different varieties of fruit trees. That it is efficient in destroying the San Jose scale if it is brought in contact with this insect seems now quite probable. But the hundreds of dead trees that mark the areas where it has been indiscrimin ately used, point very clearly to the fact that great caution is necessary, and 110 one is, as yet, able to say just where safety ceases and danger he gins. Then, too, when no permanent injury is apparent, as in the ease of the seedling apples on the ground of the Ohio agricultural experiment sta tion, who can say that this unnatural retardation may not after the first application prove to be a menace to the life or general vigor of the tree? It is well known that, in nature, these retardations sometimes occur, but nature seldom, if ever, covers the bark of a tree or shrub, and then only in part, with vegetable growths like lichens, and even these are known to be detrimental, a smooth, clean bark being always desirable. In the use of refined petroleum one of the most per plexing phenomenon observed was the fact that equally careful applications, made by the same person, with the same grade of oil, would give almost opposite results. Here recommenda tion of the refined product for general tise has, in many cases, resulted dis astrously and brought no little dis repute to the entomological fraternity of this country. The most that, can now be said for the refined product is that a ten to twenty per cent, mix ture with water constitutes a fairly successful summer wash and destroys the young scale, thereby checking the increase and spread until applications of whale oil soap mixtures can he made.—Prof. F. M. Webster, in Farm ers' Keview. GOOD CALF MUZZLE. A Very Simple uiul Inexpenntve Con trivance Which DOCK KR Work Thoroughly. A simple and a good calf muzzle is made by taking a scantling, a, 3 by 3 by 14 inches; bore an inch hole about V/ 2 inches from each end. Turn scant ling over and bore two more holes two A M lUZZ LE TII AT M V Y.Y. LE S. inches from each end. Take a small stick of about one inch or little larger and make a bow togo over the calf's neck. For the horns, b b, take two good seasoned pieces of wood about 14 inches long, make them round and sharp pointed at one end, and insert the other end in the holes bored in the scantling. Then place the muz zle on calf, take a string and tie over calf's nose, and you have a good muz zle complete.—C. F. Wood, in Farm and Home. TIMELY DAIRY NOTES. Milk at the same time every day. Milk thoroughly to the last drop, be couse the last milk is the best. Al ways keep the hands clean, and also the cow's udder and dairy utensils. To milk young, restive cows, raise one of the fore feet. Never strike them. Milk with four fingers, and not with index and thumb, a fault too common with milkers. Let there be exact system in all movements about the dairy. Do not delay straining the milk until the cream Las begun to rise again more slowly. The farmer who makes the dairy his main business, rather than an adjunct, is the one who will turn out the best product, and procure the most profit and satisfaction.—Kural World. A Point Worth ( oitsi<l <»rinc. A close observer has well said that "birds have different tastes from men; as a rule they prefer bitter, sour or insipid fruit. We should never destroy such species as the wild cherry, wild grape, elder, uiack hery, juneberry, mulberry, dogwood, Virginia creeper, buckthorn, sumach, bittersweet and others. By eneour- I aging such plants we are approach ing a solution of the problem, that will preserve for our own benefit both the cultivated fruit and tlis birds." This is a point that wc think many people have overlooked. Whero birds are most destructive is in local ities where no food exists other than tint growing in the farmer's garden. Why Pulverir.allon Pnya. The chief supply of drink to growing plants is moisture brought up from be low by capillary action, and therein consists the necessity of pulverizing the soil thoroughly before planting, and continuous surface cultivation afterward. Weeds are sometimes counted as a blessing because their presence compels the farmer to con tinue really necessary cultivation, which he might otherwise feti justified In omitting to the detriment of the crop.—Midland Farmer. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 13. 1901. SPORT IN WESTERN CANADA. Whilelbr I'llrmcr's (irnln In Itlprnlns and Ills Stork Vrowlnic I-'af, He Aln> Hat e I'lenty of Sliootinw. There is probably no country on the American Continent where tin* life of the farmer carries with it that assurance of comfort and suc cess as does Western Canada. Nor is there to be found anywhere else such a pleasant combination. Game abounds everywhere and nowhere does it afford such perfect amuse ment. A noted sportsman writing - of the favorite pastime says: "There is one particular spot where I saw a man drop TO mallards one morning, find bring them all to bag, too, far they dropped in open water or on flat, prairie. At the right season of the year you can see black lines and triangles cut sharply out against the sky all round you, moving very swiftly, and you begin to wonder whether you have enough cartridges to hold out. You can hear the prairie-chicken crowing like barn door fowls; and a little to the north east is a bit of marshy ground, cat tle poached, and dappled with gleam ing pools, where the snipe are near ly as thick as mosquitoes. A thin column of blue smoke curling up in the distance shows you where a few wandering Indians have pitched their camp, but there is no other indica tion of civilization in sight. Still, the neighborhood is well-settled, and a short drive will bring you to a farmhouse where you can buy the finest butter and the freshest eggs for uncivilized prices. "A very short railway journey will bring you to a country full of deer and the lordly wapiti, the king of the deer tribe the world over; and down on the flat, boggy land by the lake shores the inoose will stand knee-deep in water on the summer evenings, ready to lie down when the flies get bothering. All day you breathe the wild free air of tlie prairie, and at night you are lulled to sleep by the surge and ripple and splash of the waves on the beach, broken now and then by the weird banshee-cry of strange water-fowl." Particulars regarding settlement of the lands of Western Canada can be had from any agent of the Canadian Government, whose advertisement ap pears elsewhere in your columns. OI.l) READER A REMARKABLE RECOVERY. Young .Hail'* Buck, Broken at n Ilunee, Operated 4*ll StirceKNfully by a Siirjrou. While dancing at Glendale, L. 1., last August Joseph Lennon fell from the platform and injured his back, lie was sent to the hospital at Ja maica, where three vertrbrae of his spinal column were operated on. Len non rallied after the operation, but while he could read and talk he had I no control over either his arms or i legs, iiefore Dr. Herbert K. Xoble ' performed the operation he perform ed a similar one on a dead body. It took him four hours to remove the broken portions of bone from Len non's spine. A few weeks after Ihe operation Lennon was abie to sit up in bed, and ! in February lie was able to move his ! toes a little. Gradually he has recov- I ered the use. of all his limbs, and about the middle of March he was j able to stand up. Gradually he gain- I ed until he could stand alone, and last Monday he took four steps alone. •Since then he has walked the entire length of the ward alone. Mr. Mann \on talk about fashionable trimming for a bonnet! 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Add; tJTKKLMiU'&KIIKDY CO., Naw York «>rCldcaco. ••••*************a«a®a********aa*****a*aa*a******aao WHEN THE DEAD AWAKE. Some Strungo liiwCNiicew In Which « or !>*<>» 11 live Meeiued to l.ll'e. l.ll'e. Live persons have feigned death with marvelous exactness, but when the dead feign life, or seem to feign life, the spectacle is as grewsome as can well be imagined. Not long ago a Ifussian cemetery was t'he scene of as weird a wedding as ever has been witnessed, says a London paper. A young girl who had been betrothed died on the eve of her marriage, and her friends decided that, in npite of the intervening hand of death, the marriage ceremony should be carried 011, and the cere mony was performed at the side of the grave, and after the marriage the body was returned to the. colliu and lowered to its long resting place. It is less than a year ago that a valuable cup was won in a bicycle race in Australia by a man who was dead when he passed the winning post. Tlie race took place at an "elec tric light carnival," so called, in the presence of 10,000 spectators, in the last lap James Somerville, a rider, forged to the front and secured such a lead that his victory was assured. When within 25 yards of the finish he was seen to relax his hold on the han dle bar and to relax his hold on the pedals, lie did not fall from t'he ma chine, however, and amid frantic cheers dashed by the goal, winning the race by half a wheel. As he passed the finishing post he pitched forward and fell to the ground. When he was picked up he was found to be dead, and, what was more, the doc tors declared that death had come to 'him when he was seen to lose his liohl on the handle bars, it was a dead body that had ridden the last 25 yards of the race. On a recent voyage the sealing schooner Arietis was cruising about 200 miles off the coast of British Co lumbia. when she sighted a disman tled ship. The Arietis bore down upon the derelict, and as sbe got near enough a man was seen on board grasping the wheel and apparently steering the craft. Xo other sign of man was seen on the ship. The man at the wheel was hailed, but returned no answer—just stood there grasping the spokes of the wheel and looking straight ahead. A boat was lowered and the mysterious ship boarded. When they came close to the man at the wheel they saw with horror that he was dead and had evidently been dead for many days. The ship, which was named the General Riglin, had sailed from San Francisco for Alaska. She had clearly been dismantled in a gale and then abandoned by her crew. The captain had refused to leave the ship, and, finding his strength failing.he had lashed himself to the wheel and literally died at his post, steering the craft for hundreds of miles with hands that held the wheel in as lirm a grip as when alive. fodder Tree from tlie Adriatic. From the island of Lissa, in the Adriatic, agents of the agricultural I department sent cuttings of St. 6 tohn's bread, which is a leguminous ree, suited for rather dry, calcareous soils in the southern states, Porto liico and Hawaii. It is a fodder tree, yielding immense quantities of pods, which are shipped and sold for cattle feed and which are also used by brewers and distillers. The tree com ! indices to bear when it is 15 years old [ and yields from 450 to 650 pounds of I pod per tree. On the island of Lissa j the bearing tree yields pods to the | value of from $5.50 to $8.50 per an num. —X. Y. Sun. Altogether Too Krrnent. "Avoid him," said the girl in blue. "\\ hy?" asked the girl in gray. "He's too earnest and too unsophisti cated." answered the girl in blue. "Why, lie's the k«id of a man who will ruin what might be a lovely summer resort flirtation by proposing to you within the first two weeks of the season."—Chicago Post. The Ctueer Tiling About It. It's usually when a man speaks without thinking that he says what he thinks.—Phil adelphia Kecord. Retter be dumb than superstitious.—Hen Jonson. Every mother possesses information of vital value to her S young (laughter. That daughter is a precious legacy, and | the responsibility for her future is largely in the hands of tho d mother. _ The mysterious change that develops the thought- g less girl into the thoughtful woman should find the mother I on the watch day and night. As she cares for the physical 1 well-being of her daughter, so will the woman be, and her § children also. When the younsr girl's thoughts become sluggish, when I she experiences heauaches, dizziness, faintness, and exhibits Q an abnormal disposition to sleep, pains in the back and lower S limbs, eyes dim, desire for solitude, and a dislike for tho I society of other girls, when she is a mystery to herself and § friends, then the mother should goto her aid promptly. At g such a time the greatest aid to nature is Lydia E. Pink- [j ham's Vegetable Compound. It prepares tho young 1 system for the coming change, and is the surest reliance in ij this hour of trial. The following letters from Miss Good are practical proof 112 of Mrs. Pinkharn's efficient advice to young women. Miss Good asks Mrs. Pinkham for Help. .Tune 12 th, 1890. DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I have been very much bothered for some time with my monthly periods being- irregular. I will tell you all about it, and put myself in your care, for I have heard so much of you. Each month menstruation would become less and less, until it entirely stopped for six months, and now it has stopped again. I have become very ner vous and of a very bad color. lam a young girl and have always had to j B I Sil work very hard. 1 would be very much pleased if tyou would tell me what to do."—Miss PEAKL GOOD, Cor. 29th Avenue and Yeslar Way, Seattle, Wash. The Happy Result. February 10th, 1900 " DFAI? MRS. 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