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rather slow. The better way is to take a box about one foot 

 square, inside measure, knock the bottom out and tack on a piece 

 of fine copper or brass netting; then nail on two cleats, one on 

 each side of the box near the top, so you can set it in the top of 

 the barrel, the box resting on the cleats and the bottom of it 

 being about six inches below the top of the barrel. Put the fifty 

 pounds of copper sulphate into the box and pour the water to fill 

 the barrel through it and the box, and by the time the barrel is 

 full the sulphate will be about all dissolved. The balance will 

 be in the best possible condition to dissolve rapidly, and will be 

 dissolved in a very few minutes. 



INSECTICIDES. 



Insecticides are of two classes, — Bug Death, which is non- 

 poisonous and is in a class by itself, and the arsenical poisons, 

 consisting of Paris green, London purple, Arsenate of Lead, and 

 such arsenical mixtures as Black Death, Quick Death, Kno Bug 

 and many more, all having arsenic as their killing basis and being 

 in no way superior to pure Paris green. 



On mv experiment field at my home in Brunswick this season the 

 net profit per acre of using Bug Death over Arsenate of Lead was 

 $29.42, and over Paris green $38.50. This is figured at 75 cents 

 per bushel, the price I am now getting in 100 bushel lots, in my 

 local market. This would make a total profit of from 160 to 200 

 dollars per acre. Surely the farmers of Maine need not go 

 West to make money. A large part of the wealth of the western 

 farmer is clue to the rise in farm values, and we shall see the 

 value of our farms double in the next ten years. The time is 

 again coming when a man will be proud to say that he is a farmer. 



