AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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BROTHERS, WILL YOU MEET US 
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Shadows on the Wall. 
The Shadow Pictures already printed have given mu ;h 
pleasure, and so we continue the series. These all re¬ 
quire considerable patience and ingenuity, but we think 
our young readers, many of them at least, will be suc¬ 
cessful as we have been. “ Piggy ” is rather hard for 
some hands, but others will make it very easily. In form¬ 
ing these shadow pictures, the hands should not always 
be placed so that the light will fall full and square upon 
them, but a little turn to one side or the other, will often 
very much change the effect. The Shadow should, 
the lamp must be placed so that the light will fall at right 
angles to that part of the wall where the shadow is made. 
Besides, it is not at all necessary to have the fingers close 
together, by spreading them apart the shadows will often 
be improved. 
The Arab’s Pr aver— “ 0 God, be kind to the wicked; 
to the good thou hast already been sufficiently kind in 
making them good.” 
Always take the part of an absent person who is cen¬ 
sured in company, so far as truth and propriety will allow. 
Answers to Problems. 
Answer to rebus No. 4, April Agriculturist, p. 119.—A 
wise man sometimes changes his opinions; a fool never. 
Answer to No. 5, April Agriculturist, p. 119.— Our na¬ 
tional resources are developed by earnest culture of the arts 
of peace —(Hour gnat-eye-on-ale re-sour-ces ar-e de- 
vil-oped by ear nest cul chewer .oft-he arts of peas.) 
Answer to No. 6.—“ Seest thou a man diligent in his 
business'!—he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand 
before mean men. [In the rebus, a man diligent in his 
business is represented asstandingbefore kings, and again 
behind (not before) men shooting little birds. What 
meaner men than such are there ?] 
is done as shown by the above diagram. 
Correct answers to puzzles have been received from : 
S. Sibly Hopkins, 4 and 6; Jerry M. Cochran, fi; S. and 
J. F. Mills, 4; R. F. Roberts, 4; Lansing L. Porter, 6 and 
7; Oliver Combs, 4 and 6; N. W. Johnson, Jr., 5, 6 and 7; 
Chas. B. Warkwick, 7; Ida, 4 and 6; Luke Robinson, 7, 
C. Adams, 5, 6 and 7; Iremeus N. ICneeland, 4, 6 and 7; 
R. W. Weeks, 4, 5, 0 and 7; F. W. M., 4 and 6; E. H. 
Park, 4. 6 and 7; Maggie Darling, 6 and 7; Mattie Dren- 
nan, 7; Amanda Rogers, 6; Jarvis H. Arnold, 4 and 6; J. 
M. Garretson, 7; I. R. Smith, 4, 0 and 7; Henry F. Miles, 
4, 5, 6 and 7; Katie M. Humphrey, 4, 5 and 6; C. L. and 
A. C. Seiwers, 3; F. C. A., 6; L. Harrison’s boys, 7; D. 
B. Rogers, 7 ; Simeon H. Batterson, 4, 5, 6, 7. 
“ I have a pair of pigeons—why are they like a shiftless 
farmer ? Ans. Because they’ll prop-a-gate until its fall. 
When is a farmer like “Old Uncle Ned?” Ans. 
When he loses his hair, 0 ! (harrow.)” 
New Problems. 
No. 8. This is another re¬ 
bus founded on a passage 
f of Scripture;—very easy 
“ to guess, we think. 
No. 9. Another Block Puzzle.— Take twelve pieces of 
block or card, like the following, four of each kind, and 
place them together to form a perfect square. 
No. 10.—AN ENIGMA. 
Draw three-fourths of a cross anti a circle neat, 
Two semi-circles, which an upright meet, 
A regular triangle upon two feet, 
Two semi-circles and a circle complete, 
Which, if well done, the source will show 
Of a little “solace,” and much harm, too. 
TTSie Gnime of Solitaire. 
“Buckeye Boy” sends to the boys who read the Agri¬ 
culturist a puzzle, which is the old game of “ Solitaire " 
played with pegs or checker-men. He directs to check off 
a square in twenty-five smaller squares or checks, upon a 
slate, paper, or board, and to place twenty-four buttons, 
one on each square, except the middle one ; then by 
“jumping ” one at a time, in any direction, except corner- 
tlie buttons' except one. The best arrangement for this 
very pleasant game is with the use of a light piece of 
board, in which holes are bored, pegs being used instead 
of buttons. On the under side of the board a piece of 
broadcloth, or nice leather, may be tacked, to serve as a 
pocket to hold the pegs. The plan proposed requiring 
only twenty-foul- men, is quite simple ; but if it is desired 
by any one to play a harder game, and one requiring more 
thought, it may be done by adding places for more mens 
The Russian Locust War. 
Translated for the American Agriculturist, fromthe German 
of Dr. Otto Ule. 
“ Continental papers contained, during the last 
few years, frightful accounts of the destruction 
done by the locust. In Bessarabia, these animals 
covered an are?, of 128,000 acres with their eggs ; in 
the Chersonesus and Tauric Government, twice 
that space ivas occupied. All possible means were 
resorted to to kill these eggs, such as digging, col¬ 
lecting and burying and burning-them, plowing the 
ground and tramping it hard with horses and cat¬ 
tle. On one piece of land of 1,100 acres near 
Cliotim, not less than 4,400 bushels of locust eggs 
were collected. About the first of May, when the 
eggs began to hatch, rollers and harrows were 
brought into requisition, but all to no avail. To¬ 
ward the last of July this pest passed beyond Ben¬ 
der on the Dniester, in a width of 6 miles, and in a 
mass from 7 to 8 inches thick, and crossing the riv¬ 
er within 2 days, they spread themselves along- the 
low lands of the opposite shore. Here it was that 
a battle was fought such as the records of Natural 
History can show no parallel to—men of all nation¬ 
alities gathered to defend their homesteads, and in 
a short time 1,400 men stood in arms against the de¬ 
stroyer. Meanwhile the locust had spread over an 
extent of 16 square miles. To prevent them from 
attacking the surrounding fields, deep ditches 24 to 
29 miles long were dug, and men placed along these 
ditches to kill the locusts dropping into them. 
Others fought them with bush-harrows and brooms 
in those places where ditches could not be made. 
Where the ground was clean, hordes of horses and 
cattle were driven along to crush them. Pickets 
on horseback were stationed to watch the move¬ 
ments of the enemy breaking through the ranks. 
Eight days were thus occupied. Three quarters of 
the locusts were destroyed, when the remainder had 
completed their last change and became winged 
insects : on the 9th of July, the first swarms rose 
into the air and flew in different directions. The 
battle was not fought in vain. While in the Prov¬ 
ince of Chersonesus, nearly the whole crop was 
destroyed, Bessarabia suffered but very little.”- 
What a lesson for the American farmer l If we do 
not have the Egyptian locust, or the large locust, 
we have certainly other pests liable to become just 
as great. Not many miles from where we write, 
we have seen clover fields and Hungarian grass ex¬ 
tensively destroyed by the common grasshopper, 
and the ravages of the Army worms and other in¬ 
sects are fresh in all our memories. 
