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What proportion of the farmers attempt to destroy the codling 

 moth, although the arsenic remedies have been going the rounds of the 

 press for seven or eight years ? 



With the limited means, it will be impossible to obtain an ento- 

 mologist who will be able to devote liis time to work in the field, but a 

 station entomologist performing the work indicated above, and who keeps 

 before the public the importance of fighting the pests, will be able to do 

 a very valuable work for the farmers and horticulturists. 



THE METEOROLOGIST. 



The science of meteorology is so in its infancy that the predictions 

 are only approximately correct, but if a series of observations can be 

 made, in a few years our weather prophets will have a mass of statistics 

 at hand from which they can draw conclusions that can be relied on, and 

 the farmers can so regulate their work as to be prepared for rain or 

 drought, heat or frosts. 



With the stations organized in a manner similar to that pointed out, 

 and working in the fields indicated, the horticulturists can obtain 

 a vast amount of good from them, but the real \-alue of experiment 

 stations to horticulture, will depend fully as much upon the fidelity and 

 intelligence with which the horticulturalists make use of the results of 

 the experiments as upon the real work done by the stations. 



ROADSIDE TREES. 



BY W. R. LAUGHLIN, ELM GROVE, MO. 



Allowing Missouri to be square, and 250 miles by 250 miles, and 

 roads on every section line, we have within the state, more than 60,000 

 miles of country roads. 



