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less favorable. Ill success is more likely 
due to wcnki ued vitality of our stock. At 
any rate, there can be little doubt of the 
desirability of introducing the most vigor- 
ous strains, in the effort to re-establish these 
fruits more firmlx . Some of the older im- 
portations. such as Double Natte and Osfc- 
heim W eielisel, belonged to a hardier class; 
but in quality and size they were so surpass- 
ed by others as to attract little notice. These 
and a long list of other hardy Greottes and 
Amarelles, have been re-imported, and are 
now likely to have more attention. I 
note . en the Rural -Veto Yorkf mak- 
ing of the Simon Plum, begins to jali -ve 
that curculio proof pin. 11 s are notaosolute- 
ly impossible things. — T. H. Hoskins. 
Liquid Grafting; Wax, 
A wax that is excellent for painting over 
wounds of trees caused bv pruning, bark- 
ing or other injury, may be made by melt- 
ing one pound of resin over a slow fire and 
stirring in one ounce of beef tallow. When 
the mixture, after being removed from the 
fire, has partly cooled off, eight ounces of 
alcohol are added. Bottle and keep corked. ^ 
A Home-Made Evaporator. 
The evaporatrrs manufactured for com- 
mercial purposes are expensive affairs and 
where it is designed to dry a supply ; 
of fruit for home consumption or utilize 
surplus products merely, it is possible to 
construct a dryer that will answer the pur- 
pose just as well and at a comparatively 
low cost. Such an evaporator is the one 
described by Prof. Arnold. 
I laid up a brick wall of three sides, about 
thirty inches square and three feet high, | 
inside of which I placed an old box stove, 
of large size, and on top of the brick work ■ 
I set a box 27x28 inches inside, and about 
five feet high above the brick work, with a 
door in front, which, when open would ad- 
mit ten slidmg trays 27 inches square. 
These trays were made of light basswood 
frames and mosquiio netting tacked on the 
underside of the frames — although they 
could be used either" side up. The retting 
required replacing once during the season. 
In the evening my son or hired man would 
pare about a barrel of apples in an hour, 
one other person and myself would trim the 
ends, cut the apples half in two, and our 
two little girls, age seven and nine, would 
spread the fruit on the trays and I would 
slide them into the dryer. In this way we 
usually filled the dryer in sixty or seventy 
minutes. We endeavored to have the 
temperature 150 degrees, and about 120 de- 
grees after the fruit was partly dry. We 
had a ventilator, 6x27 inches, near the top, 
which could be opened or closed as desired, 
but should always be open while in use. 
At bed time we filled the stove with large 
wood, closed it tight, and in warm, dry 
weather our apples would be nicely evapor- 
ated in the morning. Out of this little, 
cheap dryer, we have taken over seven bar- 
rels of nice evaporated apples, well pressed 
down, over two barrels of peaches, besides 
currants, corn, etc. I should have said 
that this dryer being one inch longer from 
back to front than the trays, admits a 
space of one inch at the back of the first 
tray, and also at the front of the second, 
and so on alternately. I have found this 
better than a half inch space in back and 
front of each tray. 
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Tlie Bed Bag. 
( Cimexlectularia . Hinn.) 
The bed bug belongs to the order Hemip- 
tera or insects with the mouth parts form- 
ing a beak for sucking, and to tlie family 
Membranacei, of which it is a type. Its 
scientific name is Cimex, or acanthia lectu- 
laria. It is commonly known in America 
as the “ Bed bug.” The term “ bug” is a 
Celtic word signifying a ghost or goblin. 
Although the word occurs, five or six 
different times, in Shakespeare’s plays, it 
is in every instance synonymous with“ bug 
bear,” and does not mean this insect. This 
shows that the word “ bilg” in the sense we 
use itis a comparatively modern name. In 
Matthew’s Bible, the passage in Psalms. — 
“ Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by 
night,” is translated, — “Thou shall not need 
be afraid of any bugs by night.” Conse- 
quently we infer that the name “ bug” was 
given to them because they were con- 
sidered terrors by night. This name has 
now been extended to the 
entire sub-order Heterop- 
tera. Mouffett whose work 
was published in 1634, gives 
“ wall-louse,” as the com- 
mon English name of the 
insect, not even mention- 
ing its modern name of 
“bug.” Its original Eng- 
lish name was “chinche” 
Fig. 1623. and the French call it the 
“Punaise.” 
The bed bug. figl263,is rust red in color, with 
brown hairs, and grows to from one-eighth 
to one-fourth inch in length. The an- 
tennas are four jointed, and, like the legs, 
are covered with fine hairs. The second an- 
tennae joint is longest. The tarsi are three- 
jointed without any foot pads. The wings 
are only rudimentary. Scopoli, cited by 
Linnaeus, who, however, questions the 
statement, mentions the occurrence of this 
insect with perfect wings. Fallen, also, 
and Latreille, notice the report of its being 
found winged, but without being able to 
confirm it. It has also been stated to occur 
winged in the East Indies, but Burmeister 
seems to question this. Schilling has des- 
cribed a winged house bug under the name 
of cimex domesticus, but Burmeister has 
shown that it belonged to entirely another 
genus. The characteristic feature of the 
insect and the part which interests us most, 
is the mouth which consists of first, a 
long, jointed sheath, which is in fact, the 
lower lip, considerably elongated and com- 
posed of four parts, jointed together. Then 
above, and covering the base of this is a 
small conical scale, representing the upper 
