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smother most of the insects so destructive to 

 plants. Winter plowing kills cut worms. As 

 each family of vegetables has its own peculiar 

 bugs, constant change to new soil keeps the bugs 

 from getting a good start. This is only one of 

 the advantages of the rotation of crops. 



Even if you raise fruits and nuts that need 

 no hands and knees work (which in any case can 

 be reduced to the minimum by the use of the 

 wheel-hoe), the time to fence off borers with a 

 circle of tin pushed a few inches into the soft 

 soil is just when the borers threaten; the time to 

 spray is before and after the bloom, and gen- 

 erally if you won't or don't do these things, they 

 will be done too late or will not get done at all. 



You would better run an office without a type- 

 writing machine, than a farm without a spray 

 pump. Spraying at the proper time may mean 

 all the difference between profit and loss. " In 

 fourteen co-operative experiments, covering 180 

 acres, made in 1904, in New York State, the 

 average increase in yield of potatoes due to 

 spraying was 62J bushels per acre, the cost of 

 spraying was $4.98 per acre, the cost per acre 



