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I would be nobler than to clutch 



.My little world with gloating grasp; 



Now, while I live, my hands unclasp. 

 Or let me hold it not so much 

 For my own joy as for the good 

 Of all the gentle brotherhood. 



And as the seasons move in mirth 



Of bloom and bird, of snow and leaf. 



May my calm spirit rise from grief 

 In solace of the lovely earth ; 

 And though the land lie dark or lit, 

 Let me but gather songs from it. 



— R. W. Gilder. Atlantic. 



DUST SPRAYING. 



The golden medium we think is expressed by Prof. H. A. Surface, 

 M. S., Economic Zoologist, Pennsylvania State Department of Agricul- 

 ture, in his monthly bulletin for June, 1904, he says : 'Tor effectiveness, 

 it has not yet been proven entirely equal to the liquid spray, for all insects 

 and diseases of plants which have been treated by spraying, but with the 

 same time, expense and effort, it can be made as effective as the old 

 style methods of spraying with liquids, and this means that three times 

 as many applications can be made, with less heavy work, less pumping 

 for men, and pulling for horses, and without necessity of obtaining watei" 

 for the work." 



During the past season two of the schools have produced and pub- 

 lished the formula for a dry Bordeaux, having all the chemical properties 

 of the liquid Bordeaux, but whether the growers wish to exactly copy 

 after the chemical combinations in the liquid Bordeaux is still an open 

 question. Mr. W. D. Maxwell who has had thirty-five years' experience 

 in growing fruit, and who has used both the liquid and the dust, and the 

 dust exclusivelv the last three seasons, stated before the Missouri State 

 Horticultural Society at its late meeting at Neosho, Mo. : "I will stay with 

 the dust, until the advocates of the liquid spray can offer me something- 

 better than they have ever done." 



At the late meeting of the Kansas State Horticultural Society, held 

 in Topeka, Kansas, Mr. Hale on whose Georgia farm the government ex- 

 pert conducted the test last season to determine the relative value of both 

 systems of spraying on peach rot, asked Mr. Goodman, Secretary of the 

 Missouri State Horticultural Society, the following pointed question : 

 "Mr. Goodman, if you had an orchard where water is available, and 

 where the lay of the land is such that a wagon can be driven over it, 

 would you use the dust process?" Mr. Goodman replied: "Yes, I 



