in orchards: Tie a band of wool or cotton 
batting around the trunk of the tree. The 
worm becomes tangled in the meshes, and 
is prevented from defoliating the trees. 
Also, placing boxes or gourd shells in the 
trees encourages the presence of wrens and 
blue birds, which prey upon the canker- 
worms. 
Mr. J. Eaton, a well known orchardist, 
thinks that he keeps the curculio away 
from his plums by smoking the trees after 
the fruit sets, and continuing for two 
months every week, with sulphur. Some¬ 
times he puts a little coal-tar in the pan 
with the sulphur. 
For the onion fly, soot and kerosene oil, 
mixed with one hundred times its bulk of 
water and applied with a sprinkler, are 
remedies favorably re commended, but only 
partially effective. Undoubtedly the best 
remedy is to dig and burn the infested on¬ 
ions, of course beginning this as soon as 
the pest appears. I believe this has the en¬ 
dorsement of Prof. Lazenby. 
Ground tobacco stems are a good insecti¬ 
cide for the striped beetle. The stems can 
be purchased at a very low price at any 
tobacco f ictory, and in addition to destroy¬ 
ing the beetles, they are valuable as fertili¬ 
zers for the land. 
♦Johnson Grass. 
BY HERBERT POST. 
The accompanying 
cut is an exact like¬ 
ness of the Johnson 
Grass, showing its 
great amount of for¬ 
age, part of the roots 
and head with seed. 
No grass known is 
as valuable for ensi¬ 
lage, being better 
than corn, more suc- 
culent, containing 
much more sac 
charine matter, so 
that all kinds of stock JOHNSON GRASS, 
are exceedingly ( Sorghum IIalaj>ense.) 
fond of it. No grass has such valuable prop¬ 
erties. It stands the drought better than any 
other grass, because its roots penetrate to 
such depth for moisture; stands overflows 
better than any other, making it especially 
valuable for low, moist lands on river and 
creek bottoms. Within the past two years, 
it has been thoroughly tested in the North 
and West and proved as valuable for the 
colder climates as for the more Southern; 
its yield being as large North as at the 
South, but perhaps not cut as often. 
Cabbage Plant Carrier. 
BY A. G. T1LLINGHAST. 
I must tell your readers of a simple little 
invention I have used for two years past, 
that is a great help to me in setting out 
cabnage plants. , 
Having to set 40,000 plants alone, I found it 
inconvenient to carry along a box of plants 
while setting them. I contrived a “carrier’’ 
made of a piece of canvass sewed on a bent 
wire i * the shape ot a pocket open at one 
side and top, and strapped to my left leg, 
between the foot and knee, around my 
boot top. Tliis “carrier” holds from 100 to 
300 plants according to size of plants. I 
set a box of plants at each end of the row, 
filling the “carrier” at the staiting point, 
tike out a plant with the left hand, make 
a hole with a dibble in my right hand and 
set the plant with the left hand, immediate¬ 
ly taking another plant from the “carrier,” 
ready for the i ext hole. At the other end 
of the row I refill the “carrier” and start 
back in the next row. Thus 1 always have 
a plant in my hand ready to &et as fast as I 
can make holes with the dibble. This little 
“carrier” is worth more than a boy to me 
in setting out cabbage plants, as the roots 
do not get dried in wind or sun as is the 
case when dropped on the ground for set¬ 
ting. It is as easy to take a plant from the 
“carrier” as it is to pick one up from the 
ground, and with it I set plants right along 
regardless of the weather. 
Padilla , Wash. Territory , 1885. 
'PUGET SOUND CABBAGE SEED.’ 
Crop 1885 and 1886. Grown on Contract. 
Correspoft dence So licited. 
A. G. TILLING HAST, 
La Conner, Skagit Co., Wash. Ter. 
