SKPTEMBER 15, 1915 



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ber; and inasmuch as quite a number of 

 similar reports are now cominir to the front 

 ii seems fit that some of these periodicals 

 should keep a little bcticr ])osled and up 

 to date. 



T havp )iail some personal oxporicnce with sweet 

 (lover tills fall, and I now know that stotk will eat 

 and relish it. One of my neighbors told me that 

 his horse would now leave a mess of oats any time 

 for sweet clover, althcush at first refusing it. This 

 neii;hl)or is a feed-dealer, so naturally his horse 

 would ))p well fed. Our Jersey oow at first refused 

 it, l>ut gradually began to eat it ; and when I was 

 about out of it I found she preferred it to corn 

 fodder; and I also discovered that when fed corn 

 fodder after being on sweet-clover hay blie dropped 

 aboiit three quarts per day off her milk. Just think 

 >»hat this means — 6 pounds per day for 300 days, 

 the average milking period — equals 1800 pounds of 

 milk at 6 cents per quart, |108 more per year per 

 cow; or at ^1.75 per 100, which is what farmers get 

 in shipping to the city, it would amount to $63.00; 

 !ii:il this asionish'iig t^mount is just the difference in 

 fuvor of sweet-clover h.ay over corn fodder and other 

 ii ctLs, grains being the same, and sweet clover hay 

 being the efiual, ton for ton, of wheat bran in feed- 

 ing value aci'oiding to U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture analysis; and while growing sweet clover we 

 are greatly enriching our lard. 



Milford, Mich. E.-\rl F. To\\NSEND. 



SQUASH-DUGS, AND BLACK-KNOT ON CHERRY 

 AND PLUM TREES. 



Mf. h'oot 1 see that yon have quite a lot to .say 



about squash-bugs. I have something that will di-ive 

 all the squash bugs out of Ohio in one sea.son. Take 

 pine sawdust when your plants just got out of the 

 ground, and put it IV2 inches deep under the plants ; 

 then when they are si.\ or eight inches high put on 

 some more sawdust. This is for squash, cucumbers, 

 pumpkins, and watermelons. I have another recipe 

 for black-knot on tame cherry and plum trees. Take 

 the soot from your chimneys and put one quart 

 around each tree at the ground. That destroys the 

 germ that causes black-knot, and it will never fail. 



I am an orchardist, and the two recipes are free, 

 so please pass them along. 



I. a Grange, Me., Nov. 7. E. A. Day. 



1 lu'esuint" that in the ahove the odoi' of 

 the pine sawdust is what i-epels the bugs. 

 1 find they are in the habit of boring down 

 around llie stalk and roots of the vines. In 

 fact, they crawl down in the dirt, and hide. 

 Very likely this pine sawdust, with its 

 strong odor of turpentine, would be suffi- 

 cient to repel them. If I remember right, 

 some other writer has recommended kero- 

 sene worked into the sawdust, being careful, 

 of course, not to get it so strong as (0 kill 

 the vines. 



IIAXD CL'I-TIVATORS, STRIPED BUGS. 



T am nearly 70 years old. but I am a good gar- 

 dener. I know how to make stuff grow by working 

 the ground often and using shallow cultivation. I 

 have about two-thirds of an acre in my garden, and 

 all tended by hand, with my wheel plow and hoe. 

 I use the Excelsior double wheel, about 14 inches 

 between wlieels. I use two plows or two weeders. 

 as I wish. One can do more than double the work 

 wtili tlicni than with a single wheel, and no harder 

 work. My garden is fine, and full of stuff — one 

 of the finest gardens in all this county. The dasheen 

 is growing finely — nearly 2 feet high. The rainbow 

 corn is nearly 2 feet high, and is showing up fine- 

 ly. 



I had a hard fight with the yellow striped cucum- 

 ber bugs. 1 had to replant. I finally got the up- 

 per hand of them. I had (like you) to do a little 

 Sunday work with them, but under compulsion. I 

 do not think I sinned. If I had let the plants go 

 until Monday they would have been about all killed. 

 Now I have some nice vines. There were more 

 Lugs this season than I ever saw before in one 

 season. 



We (that means my better half and I) do enjoy 

 your Home department. I am so glad temperance 

 is advancing so fast. 



Delta, Ohio. T. W. Connell. 



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HEALTH NOTE! 



STILL ANOTHER IMITATION OF ELECTROPOISE. 



Tt is really a shame and disgrace to 

 luimanity to think that a senseless toy that 

 lias no more virtue than a horseshoe nailed 

 over the door should not only induce thou- 

 sands to invest their hard earnings, but 

 .should be imitated again and again to "pick 

 the pockets" of the unwary. Just now we 

 have a circular before us that reads as fol- 

 lows: 



ATTtNTIO.Vl IT TRKATS IH.SKASL; WITH O.WOK.V. 



You may now borrow an oxybon, use it thirty 

 days, and treat your ailment in your own home. 

 This may seem remarkable to you, but, nevertheless, 

 it is a fact. If you have failed to find relief from 

 any other method of treatment, then all we ask is 

 that you give us an opportunity to demonstrate the 

 worth of our invention by trying it for 30 days. If 

 you are suffering with any aliment, don't hesitate. 

 Write us now. It may be the turning-point in your 

 life from sickness to health. It treats disease with 



oxygen. No medicine, no belt, no battery, no elec- 

 tricity ! 



Some of you may wonder how it is that 

 they get money by sending their traps out 

 on trial. The explanation is this; and it 

 ai^plies to a great part of the remedies 

 found in the drugstore. After reading their 

 printed matter, and especially testimonials, 

 ?nany people (and I might also say most 

 people) get the impression that there really 

 must be some wonderful invention or dis- 

 covery about the thing; and under the in- 

 fluence of the imagination, and nothing 

 else, they hand over their good money. 

 While tlie original eleetropoise had only one 

 wire, this thing has two. You drop it into 

 some ice-cold water. Then you clasp a wire 

 lo each ankle, and lie down and take a rest. 

 Is it not a little fuiniy that people do not 

 catch on to the idea that lying down and 



