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ean Flom Moth ha-^: been destructive in mills and graneries in the 

 eastern parts of this State, and it has also spread to the extreme 

 northern or western portions of the State, but has been cleaned 

 up satisfactorily by two fumigations at intervals of about one 

 week with hydrocyanic acid gas. In some of the larger mills 

 this operation has cost over fifty dollars for the fumigation, but 

 has given very satisfactory results in destroying all insects in the 

 building as well as mice and rats by the bushel. 



Mites, especially the Red Mites, have been reported injuring many 

 varieties of irees, shrubs, ornamental plants and shrubbery, and 

 have been controlled by spraying with the lime-sulphur wash, the 

 same as for the San Jos^ Scale, or with contact insecticides contain- 

 ing Sulphur or Sulphur Compounds. Slugs on cherry and p^ar 

 trees have been very abundant and destructive, but easily killed by 

 dustiug with freshly-slaked lime with about one-fortieth part of 

 Paris Green added. Spraying is becoming far more extensive than 

 ever before and our citizens are producing better fruits, planting 

 young orchards and having better results and a more hopeful out- 

 look than has previously been known in this State. 



THE AGE IN WHICH WE LIVE. 



By R. M. Hetburn, Ward, Pa. 



In presenting this subject, the age in which we live, I am re- 

 mindful of the fact that it is a scientific as well as a practical age 

 as it applies to agriculture. Now and then we see a farmer who 

 speaks of the slavery of farm life; true, he has a share of burdens 

 to bear; so have men in other vocations of life. The farmer's life 

 is just exactly what he makes it. Many very excellent people whose 

 characters are noble pass many an hour of sadness and weariness 

 of heart looking for trouble that never comes. The fault is not 

 their circumstances, nor with their general character, but with 

 themselves. Many of the young men on the farm scan the pages 

 of daily papers looking for a job in the city, as they want to be 

 something better than a farmer. Yet it is not likely that talents 

 of all young men need be hidden under a bushel by settling on a 

 farm, for there are plenty of opportunities in all walks of life. The 

 farmer of to-day must let his light shine before men that they may 

 realize bad or good work, for this honorable calling, so considered 

 by Washington, requires men of the best intelligence and enter- 

 prise, men of integrity and backbone, able to run their farms in an 

 intelligent manner and on business principles, and take their posi- 

 tion with honor in the social and commercial world. Many farmers 

 attain success through much quiet home study, by reading the best 

 agriculture literature, and journeying by the slow but sure road to 

 experience. They are thoughtful and intelligent. Every farmer 



