WHAT OTHERS SAY. 



INSECTS. 



SOME FRIENDS OF THE FARMER. 



In concluding a recent buHetin from the New Jersey Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, Rev. George D. Hulst, entomologist, says: "It may 

 also be an advantage to point out some of the friends of the farmer, 

 which, consequently, no farmer should destroy or allow to be destroyed. 

 Among these are the toads, which are, under all circumstances, the far- 

 mer's friend; moles and field mice probably do a vast deal more good 

 than harm, all birds, especially robbins, wrens, thrushes, orioles, cuckoos, 

 phebes, bluebirds, woodpeckers, swallows and catbirds. The destruction 

 of all these and many others, except for scientific purposes, should be made 

 under very heavy penalties, illegal in every state. The house-sparrow, 

 known better as the English sparrow, is to be rated an exception. 

 This bird is now universally regarded as a nuisance — first because of its 

 grain and vegetable destroying propensities; secondly, it drives away 

 insect-destroying birds." — Prairie Fanner. 



A NEW REMEDY 



against the woolly aphis louse is just given by D. Cramoisy, in 

 the Revue Horticoleiox July, 1888. It consists of pyroligneous acid, rec- 

 tified to seven or ei^ht degrees, one thousand grams; salicylic acid, two 

 II. R. — 27. 



