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alfalfa is greedily devoured by this insect, but just how much credit 

 should be given to the statement, which originated with a Montana 

 correspondent of the Farmer-^s Home Journal of Kentucky, it is dif- 

 ficult to say. Probably the reference was originally made to the old- 

 fashioned ''potato-bugs,-' or blister-beetles, which are common in the 

 Western country and very general feeders. 



NEW MEANS OF DESTRUCTION. 



The use of Paris Green having become a universal remedy for 

 this pest, there is little to be said under this head, except as regards 

 the improved methods of using the application. Last spring, Mr. 

 Frank M. Gray of Jefferson, Cook county, Ills., sent me a sprinkler 

 which he has constructed for sprinkling two rows at once. It is so 

 simple and yet so useful that a brief description of it will not be out 

 of place here. It consists of a can capable of holding about eight 

 gallons of liquid, and so formed as to rest easily on the back, to which 

 yvi's- 1] it is fastened, knapsack fashion, by 



adjustable straps, which reach over 

 the shoulders and fasten across the 

 breast. To the lower part of the 

 can are attached two rubber tubes 

 which are connected with two noz- 

 zles on sprinklers. The inside of 

 the can has three shelves which 

 help to keep the mixture stirred. 

 There is a convenient lever at the 

 bottom which presses the tubes 

 and shuts off the outflow at will, 

 and two hooks on the sides near the 

 top on which to hang the tubes 

 when not in use. On the top is a 

 small air tube and a capped orifice. 

 Two bucketfulls of water are first 

 poured into the can, then three 

 tablespoonfulls of good Green, well 

 mixed with another half-bucketfull of w[)ter and strained through a 

 funnel-shaped strainer which accompanies the machine, and the use 

 of which prevents the larger particles of the Green from getting into 

 the can and cloggmg up the sprinklers. Five to eight acres a day can 

 Teadil}' be sprinkled by one man using the can, and from one to one 

 and a half pounds of good Green, according to the size of the plants 



'Gray's Improved Sprinkler, for the use of Paris 

 Grteu water. 



