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intended mainly for the codling-moth is also effective against 

 ciirculio and other chewing insects. 



The date to make each application varies with the seasons, 

 and the grower should be governed by the development of the 

 tree and bloom rather than by any dates mentioned. 



The directions for spraying as set forth, if carefully carried 

 out, are sufficient ordinarily to insure healthy trees and clean 

 fruit in Nebraska. Occasionallv other insects and diseases, 

 not controlled by these mixtures, make themselves sufficiently 

 troublesome to demand attention, and different sprays are 

 required. The grower is then recjuested to apply to this So- 

 ciety for directions for fighting the particular pest. 



NOTES FROM THE YORK EXPERIMENT STATION. 



BY C. S. HARRISON. 

 ORNAMENTAL HEDGES. 



In this wind-swept country it is necessary to have pro- 

 tection as soon as possible both for the vegetable and flower 

 garden. It is pitiful to see peonies, columbines, oriental 

 poppies, phloxes, and irises buffeted, cuffed, and lashed by 

 the fierce, drying winds which sometimes tear along in their 

 malice at the rate of forty or fifty miles an hour. 



Plants and flowers seem almost human in their efforts to 

 beautify the home and please the owner. They should have 

 protection as well as the horse and the cow. 



"Back to the land" is the cry, and it is a good healthy cry, 

 too. People, instead of being cooped up in cities, long for the 

 freedom of God's out-of-doors, and so thousands of people are 

 starting suburban homes. Of course they will have hard 

 times for the first few years. The drying Avinds mark them 

 for their prey, and they are subjected to the persecution of 

 the storms. 



A few years make a groat difference to a man who tries 

 to protect himself. You would hardly know the place. The 



