FALL WORK IN THE GARDEN 



one of the difficulties in their rearing to give them 

 boxes of earth of sufficient depth to induce them 

 to change at the right time. They would enter the 

 earth and penetrate to the bottom and return again 

 and again to the surface, each time more irritable 

 and uneasy, until finally Nature proved too much 

 for them and they were compelled to accept condi- 

 tions as they found them. It is a very fascinating 

 study this of the moths and butterflies when 

 one can watch them through the four changes 

 winged creature, infinitesimal egg, the curious, 

 often beautiful, worm, and its still more curious 

 shell and cradle through which it braves the storm 

 of winter as it waits for the resurrection of the 

 spring. The worms lose much of their repulsive- 

 ness when studied at close range, and in captivity 

 soon come to know one and to show none of the 

 signs of irritation displayed by the wild worms, or 

 the tame ones in the presence of strangers. 



Many gardeners make a practice of hauling 

 manure to the garden in the fall, that it may 

 leach into the soil during the winter and be ready 

 to turn under in the spring; this is of doubtful 

 value, as much of the substance of the manure is 



lost. A better plan would be to pile the manure 



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