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compensation this year in fruit free from worms or nearly so. 

 Those who had even a few apples last year have fruit as wormy as 

 ever, except in the rare instances where trees were sprayed with 

 water containing Paris green. This is undoubtedly an. effective de- 

 stroyer of the codling moth, and its use on apple trees is destined 

 to become even more general than the application of Paris green in 

 growing potatoes. — Country Gentleman. 



BABBIT TRAP. 



A correspondent of the Farmers' Beview describes the follow- 

 ing novel method for catching rabbits. He sa3"s : "I sunk a 

 flour-barrel in the ground level with the surface, then took five- 

 inch lumber, about eight feet long, and made a box, leaving an 

 open space on the under -side the width of the barrel. I then 

 placed two shingles on a tilt in that open space, and placed the box 

 right over the barrel, and then I piled about twenty-five rails over 

 the box ; that is the bait, and the trap is always set, and every man 

 knows that a rail pile is the natural home for rabbits ; instinct leads 

 them there for protection, and as soon as they see a rail pile the 

 first thing they do is to examine it, and if your trap is right, all 

 that you have to do is to take him out and un joint his neck and 

 that tames him. I have caught eleven m one trap, and one hun- 

 dred in one winter. But if you want to eat them you must go to 

 the trap every morning or they Avill eat one another." 



SCIENTIFIC. 



TREES AS LIGHT]SriNG CONDUCTORS. 



Electricians in the Old World have come to the conclusion that 

 the greatest j^rotection a building can have is to have a few tall trees 

 planted near it. The branches of a tree are as so many points con- 

 ducting the electricity by the trunk to the ground ; and hence the 

 closer the branches grow to the trunk the better. What are called 

 upright or fastigiate trees are therefore better for this purpose than 

 trees with broad spreading heads. If there is a small pond of 

 water between the tree and the building the protection is as j)erfect 

 as it can be. 



