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THE GARDEN :\I A G A Z I N E 
January, 1917 
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Gladiolus 
Our 1917 Catalogue 
is full of valuable infor- 
mation, contains 16 more 
pages than 1916, over 50 
entirely new varieties 
(231 in all, and all of our 
own production). 
Among them the peerless 
Mrs. Frank Pendleton, 
and the grand new va- 
rieties, Mrs. Dr. Norton, 
Mona Lisa and other su- 
perb new kinds. 
Catalogue of 40 pages, 
full of illustrations, free 
to all. Send for copy. 
A. E. KUNDERD 
Originator 
GOSHEN IND., U. S. A. 
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Corn Stover is Worth Saving 
T he day for wasting any kind of fodder has 
long since passed. The worst waste of 
fodder corn was in the shocks. It could not be put 
in barns nor in stacks, because of its tendency to 
heat; the silo has solved the problem of economical 
housing on the large farm. A discover},- that will 
interest many, is that oat straw that is well seasoned, 
when spread in alternate layers between cornstalks, 
unbinding the sheaves of stalks, prevents heating 
by absorbing the heat and moisture of the stalks and 
ventilating them. The stalks come out of the 
sweat improved and the same is true of the straw. 
Cut up together, both are readily eaten by all kinds 
of stock. 
Another method for permitting the safe storing 
of stalks in bulk under cover so it will not spoil, is 
to set up five or six rails tied in bundles, to act as 
ventilators every eight feet. Stalks should be put 
up after good^ drying weather only, and not when 
damp, and should not be bound tightly in large 
bundles. Cut fine, spread, and moistened 24 to 
48 hours before being fed, so they begin to heat, 
their feeding value is much improved, those who 
follow the method belie\-e they are fully equal in 
efficiency to ensilage. 
An excellent cover for stacks of stover is made as 
follows by one of the largest alfalfa raisers of 
Connecticut, having fifty acres or more. He has a 
solid post set in the earth and makes a stack bottom 
under it which will not permit the fodder to come in 
contact with dampness. Then a framework is made 
of scantlings and covered with poultry netting, 
which in turn is covered with roofing paper. This 
is built closely round the centre pole, and when 
done is raised and held well up in the air by means 
of pins put through the pole. The stack is begun, 
and if not completed the first day, the cover is let 
dovTi upon it. When the stack is well settled the 
cover is raised and more put in. The cover is always 
permitted to rest upon the stack to keep out mnd 
which might injure it and to protect the stack. 
Connecticut. Edward Griffin. 
Tree Crickets in the Fruit 
Garden 
F or some time I have puzzled to account for 
small holes in apples and peaches. They did 
not look serious because they were small, but in the 
case of the peaches some loss was caused because 
each hole became a point of infection for the brown 
rot, and the apples did not keep well. Prof. 
Parrot of Geneva, N. Y., was apparently interested 
in the same thing, and he has found that the tree 
crickets made these holes. The most common ones 
are the snowy, the narrow-winged and the striped 
tree crickets. The eggs of the two former are usually 
laid in the harder wooded trees, like apples, but 
the latter in growths having a pith with an outer 
layer of wood, such as raspberry and blackberry 
canes, peach twigs, and in the stalks of the larger 
flea banes and goldenrods. 
The striped tree cricket lays anywhere from one 
to two hundred eggs in a row, and as a result the 
bark splits open; and as the piercing process to 
place the eggs punctures the twigs one half or two 
thirds of the way through, the twig is seriously 
injured. It will be easily broken by swaying in the 
wind or by a small load. The snowy and narrow- 
winged tree crickets lay their eggs singly, but the 
puncturing of the bark by the ovipositor leaves an 
injured place which becomes infested with a fungus 
which causes a canker. This canker the limb may 
or may not outgrow. It is a source of menace to 
the health of the apple tree. 
The tree crickets feed upon the foliage, the only 
time they break the bark being to lay eggs. .\s a 
result orchards which are well sprayed with arsenate 
of lead are seldom seriously infested, unless they 
be near a plantation of brambles. 
To prevent serious infestation of the berry canes, 
it is best to remove at the time of pruning, or in 
winter, all canes having eggs in them which can be 
easily told by the sutures in the canes. Burn them. 
Should the infection become bad, spraying with 
arsenate of lead — two pounds in fifty gallons of 
water — will hold them in check. 
Pennsylvania. H.arold Clarke. 
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