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just like a man who has grown up and lived in a community all 

 his life. He may be a sterling man, a man in every sense of the 

 word, but there is no man but has some faults, and the man who 

 has lived there all his lifetime has had his faults found out by the 

 neighbors. A stranger comes in, sleek and well-dressed, and for 

 a time he can pass on his looks ; and so it is with the new varieties. 

 They pass upon their looks, until you find, after six or eight or 

 ten years' care of them, that they are not one-half as good as the 

 old, well-tried varieties are, and, in that respect, it is the same with 

 varieties as it is with men. — Prairie Farmer. 



FUTILE REMEDIES FOR CODLING MOTH. 



It is sometimes as well to know what not to use against an 

 insect as it is to know what to use. The following remedies have 

 been suggested at various times and found to be of little or no 

 value: Moth balls hung in the trees and supposed to keep moths 

 away ; smudging or spraying orchards with ill-smelling compounds ; 

 plugging the trees with sulphur ; plugging the roots with calomel ; 

 banding trees with tarred paper to keep the larvae from crawl- 

 ing up the tree; trap lanterns; baiting the moths with a mixture 

 of vinegar and molasses ; spraying with water, and electric lights 

 as a repellant of the moth. These so-called remedies have been 

 tried so often that a fruit grower is simply wasting his time and 

 money when he uses them. — [C. L. Marlott, United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture.] — Orange Judd. 



SEPTEMBER. 



; (By Helen Jackson.) 



The goldenrod Is yellow, 

 The corn Is turning brown, 

 The trees in apple orchards 

 With fruit are bending down. 



The gentian's bluest fringes 

 Are curling in the sun; 

 . In dusty pads the milkweed 



Its hidden silk has spun. 



The sedges flaunt their harvest 

 In every meadow nook; 

 And asters by the brookside 

 Make asters in the [brook. 

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