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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[June, 
smaller. They are found mostly on the under sides of 
the leaves, where they spin a web of wonderful fineness, 
beneath which they 
live, feeding on the 
juices of the leaves, 
and breed in a warm 
and dry place with 
great rapidity. So 
small are they, and 
so often some other 
color than red, that 
those who do not 
know what to look 
for, fail to see them, 
and the little pests 
go on with their 
destructive work. 
Our Microscope will 
show them very 
plainly. Figure 5 
is a young and im¬ 
perfect male Red 
Spider, with only 
six legs; figure 6 
gives the perfect 
and full-grown male, with eight legs, and two very strong 
projections, or jaws, at the head. The perfect female is 
about the shape of figure 5, but has eight very hairy legs. 
How to Kill the Red-Spider. 
It. does not like water, and in greenhouses where the 
air can be kept, moist, and the leaves often showered, it 
does not make much headway, but in a dry and hot room 
the leaves must be lightly sprinkled with sulphur. 
Using the Diapli ragm. 
You will remember that we advised not to use the 
Diaphrag-m ordinary—that is, the little plate with a hole 
in it—but to turn it outside the glasses. But when you 
wish to examine a small point only, as an insect’s foot, 
turn in the diaphragm, adjust the focal distance of the 
lenses from the object carefully, and then, with a proper 
light, it will bring out very small things wonderfully 
plain—even things you would not notice in looking 
through the glasses ordinarily_Among the many in¬ 
sect objects none have more general interest than the 
Foot of tlie Common House Fly, 
which is shown in figure 7, rather larger than you will be 
able to see it with our Microscope, although you can 
make out the parts very clearly with that. Besides a pair 
of strong claws, the foot, has two broad plates, which are 
thickly covered with minute hairs. It is well known that, 
the fly can walk upon smooth glass, and can also walk on 
the ceiling with its body down ; it has been stated that 
its feet are provided with something thatacts like a boy’s 
sucker, that allows it to hold itself in these positions, but 
it is now found that these little hairs on the feet give out 
a sticky matter, and that this mainly, if not. wholly, en¬ 
ables it to walk on smooth surfaces and upside down. 
The Mouth Parts of the Honey Bee 
form another interesting object, but it will require some 
care to lay it out properly. It is generally supposed that 
the bee draws up its honey from flowers by means of a 
sucker, such as the moths and butterflies have ; but this 
is not the case, they have no proboscis proper, but a 
kind of very long tongue, and they take up the juices by 
lapping. In figure 8 the long dark portion in the center 
(A) is the “ tongue” (as it is generally called, though it is 
really a long lip). This is not a tube, but solid and close¬ 
ly covered with short hairs, and can be extended to con¬ 
siderable length. Each side of this is a lip (d), the two 
forming a case for the “ tongue; ” outside of these are 
two long jaws (c), and outside of these two shorter jaws 
(6). When not in use, these parts can be contracted, 
and drawn in and occupy but little space. 
Tlie Eyes of Many Insects 
are exceedingly beautiful, especially those related to the 
bees and flies. Not having a bee or any such' inpcct at 
hand, 1 have borrowed a picture of a bee’s eyes (fig. 
9) to show you what to look for. These eyes are called 
‘‘compound eyes,” being made up of a great number 
of minute separate eyes, or “ocelli.” In the engrav¬ 
ing the right-hand eye is entire, while that on the left- 
hand has a portion of the ocelli removed, and some of 
them placed singly to show their shape. I am not sure 
that, you can see these so plainly in the bee, but I know 
that you can in the Dragon flies, or “ Darning Needles,” 
which will soon be abundant, and which, by the way, 
contrary to the popular notion, are quite harmless. The 
number of these “ocelli ” in the two compound eyes of a 
common house-fly is said to be about 4,000, and in some 
Dragon flies as many as 24,000!_Some have asked me 
to give them instructions for 
mounting Objects. 
There are several methods of mounting; some objects 
are put up dry; others in Canada Balsam, or Dammar 
Varnish, or Glycerine Jelly, and others still in some kind 
of preserving liquid. For some kinds of mounting the cost 
of materials and apparatus is too great, and the amount 
of care and skill required are more than quite young peo¬ 
ple are likely to have, and those sufficiently advanced in 
microscopic matters to undertake the more difficult kinds 
of mounting, are likely to have a work on the microscope 
in which such matters are given more in full than could 
be possible in these articles. Some of the methods of 
mounting are.'so difficult as to be an art of themselves, but 
the one in use for the greater number of objects is 
Mounting in Canada Balsam, 
and that, too, is the simplest of all. Still this reqnires 
some care, and to describe it properly will require more 
room than I can give to it this month ; besides I need to 
experiment a little to see if I can make some of the opera¬ 
tions more simple. It is well not to be in a hurry about 
mounting ; you who never before used a microscope can 
have hardly become skillful enough to make neat pre¬ 
parations for mounting. Yet I will try what we can do. 
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Aunt Sue’s I*uzzle-JBox. 
ANAGRAMS. 
1. In sacred bible. 5. I tanned ? not 11 
2. Alas! no convert, I. 6. O flagrant coin. 
3. Agents maim men. 7. Into iron grate. 
4. I am in a soft net. 8. O fine fat cat. Nip. 
SQUARE WORD. 
1. A foreign city. 2. Pretty in a landscape. 3. To hap¬ 
pen. 4. Moral perceptions. 5. In every forest. Xeryion. 
BIBLICAL DOUBLE ACROSTIC. 
The initials give a noted city, and the finals a famous 
man of olden time.—1. Part of a house. 2. A city of 
Sharon. 3. The wife of a Patriarch. 4. A word signify¬ 
ing “ My husband.” 5. An inflammable fluid. 6. A mu¬ 
sical instrument. 7. The mother of a Prophet. Isola. 
CROSS WORD. 
My first is in Washington but not in Lee, 
My next is in grasshopper but not in bee. 
My third is in meadow but not in hay, 
My fourth is in week blit not in day, 
My fifth is in sadness but not in glee, 
My sixth is in wasp but not in flea, 
My seventh is in ton but not in pound. 
My eighth is in square but not in round. 
My ninth is in yesterday but not in now. 
My tenth is in when but not in how. 
My eleventh is in walk but not in run, 
My twelfth is in cannon but not in gun. 
My thirteenth is in Krupp, who makes big guns. 
Which weigh a very great number of tons. 
My whole engages the attention 
Of monarch and of peasant; 
l should not like to have it here, 
I know ’would not be pleasant. 
John W. Wheatley, 
NUMERICAL ENIGMAS. 
1. I am composed of 2ti letters: 
My 11, 6. 5, 19, is used for a summons. 
My 10, 17, 4, 15, is used by the shoemaker. 
My 9, 8, 14, 24, 5, is burdened. 
My 25, 24, 26, 2, is what we all need. 
My 16, 12, 1, 14, 24, 5, is inelegant. 
My 7, 3, 13. 22, is to thrust. 
My 23, 21, 20, 18, is the same as the last. 
My whole is a well known proverb. W. H. S. F. 
2. GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. 
I am composed of 28 letters: 
My 16, 18. 2, 12. is a territory. 
My 4, 10, 17, 7, is a river in Asia. 
My 24, 26, 6, 5, 3, 15, is a river in New York. 
My 11, 14. 12. 8. 19, 4,9,21,4.4, is a river in Pennsylvania. 
My 22, 1, 25.5,23,13. is a lake in one of the Middle States. 
My 20, 12, 10, 5, 4, 27, 28, 3, is the Capital of a Southern 
State. 
My whole is where this enigma was made. F. W. Parks. 
SYNCOPATION AND TRANSPOSITION. 
(In each of the following sentences are two blanks ; 
one letter is to be taken from the word that, fills the first 
blank, and the rest of the letters are to be transposed, to 
make a word that shall fill the second blank and make 
sense of the sentence; e. g .—“The men took their- 
with them to-the premises.” Fill the first blank 
with the word “wives,” syncopate the letter s,and trans¬ 
pose the remainder [“ wive”] into the word “ view ” for 
the second blank.) 
1. The-was escorted by a-. (The remainder 
not transposed.) 
2. I ate a boiled-at-. 
3. The-was pleased with-visit. 
4. I procured the-, but I had to give a pretty 
good-for i t. 
5. The-was situated at the end of the-. 
6. Sometimes it is not-to-“ No." 
7. I-that the plant is a species of-. 
8. They managed' to-the officers after fighting 
their-. 
Thanks for letters, puzzles, etc., to Lee, G. W. Evans. 
S. W. W., Juliet P., “ Word-Builders ” (I am glad that 
so many have enjoyed the game), J. II. B., B. A. Metz, 
Frank, Minnie B. B. (answers should always accompany 
puzzles sent, for publication), Freddie L. Hurley, I. E. W., 
Marion, and others, whose favors 1 hope to answer at- 
some future time. 
Answers must be postponed to next month. — Ed. 
P. O., Brooldyn , N. Y., and not to 245 Broadway. 
Send communications intended for Aunt Sue, to Box 111 
Aunt Sue’s Oiuts. 
Annie F. C.—Those “Shawl-covers” are very con¬ 
venient for lady-travelers, and I will “give directions” 
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P o t 1 
Fig. 1.—PABT OF SHAWL-COVER. 
for one with pleasure. You will need one yard and a half 
of “ green Itussia linen-twilled crash,” 18 inches wide) 
(it costs about 22c. a yard), three 6c. pieces of alpaca 
skirt-braid (either black 
or brown as you pre¬ 
fer), and about three 
cents’ worth of worsted 
to match the braid. Cut 
the main piece for the 
bag, 32 inches long, 
leaving the width of the 
material entire. Cut 
two circular pieces 9 
inches in diameter, 
and 4 pieces like fig¬ 
ure 3—eight inches by 
two—for the handles, 
piece, of which figure 1 shows an end, leaving near¬ 
ly an inch space between them, and turn a hem about 
an inch and a half wide, on both ends. Make the three 
button-holes (see fig. 5). Work the feather-stitch be- 
Fig. 2.—FEATHER-STITCH. 
Sew the braids on to the main 
