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of apples dumped out of those wagons 
and trucks I understood liovv that man 
could have the cold assurance to insult 
our McIntosh with such a price. The 
truth is there were fur too many apples 
and tomatoes on the market. Many of 
them were culls, which never should have 
left the farm, I saw fine eggplants sell¬ 
ing at less than $1 a barrel. Me have 
over 1.000 of the finest eggplants 1 have 
seen this year. I doubt if it pays to send 
a single basket to market this year. As 
for potatoes, they were selling at $2 and 
less a barrel! There were a number of 
big loads of sweet, corn which sold at 1 Vj 
cents per ear. When these were sold the 
farmer stood on his wagon and counted 
the ears into sacks or barrels. Then the 
buyers slung these big packages on their 
backs and walked off with them. Some 
of these short, sturdy men had acquired 
great strength and skill at handling such 
packages. Rushing along through the 
dim light they seemed like ants, such as I 
have seen carrying pieces of bread or 
chips several times their own size. 
* * # * * 
T walked off all desire to avenge the 
insult to McIntosh by seeing what other 
farmers were enduring. There came a 
grim determination to make these fellows 
pay as dearly as possible for their vic¬ 
tory. When 1 returned to our truck the 
rat-faced man was still fumbling the ap¬ 
ples. lie had raised bis hid to $1 and 
even went a little over. Thomas merely 
shook his head. Then he took a mellow 
McIntosh of medium size and broke it in 
two. handing half to the rat-faced man, 
without a word. Ti was a great argu¬ 
ment. The buyer bit into it. put the 
fragrant apple to his nose, slowly chewed 
the melting pulp, pawed over the apples 
once more, and with one supreme effort 
made a great offer: 
“I gif you one dollar an’ a quarter!” 
n. w. c. 
(To he continued) 
Liveland Raspberry Apple 
T would be pleased to get some infor¬ 
mation in regard to the Liveland Rasp¬ 
berry apple. From what information I 
have been able to get. it is a good red 
an pie of fair size, and about as early as 
Transparent. This would indicate that 
it might be profitable for me for local 
market but I know nothing of its likes 
and dislikes, or habit, so I am writing 
this in the hope that either you or some 
of our large circle may know it “by its 
fruits.” B. L. B. 
Connecticut. 
1 am unable to give the information 
desired regarding the Liveland Rasp¬ 
berry, 1 have it both on its own stock 
and top-worked, but it has not fruited as 
yet. I know of one instance where it was 
planted nine years without fruiting, and 
the owner became disgusted and worked it 
over to something else. All I cau say 
about it is that it is a good grower, and 
thus far has proved hardy. I would not 
want to plant, it to any extent until I 
knew a lot more about it. Ii is intro¬ 
duced by people who have a wonderful 
gift in the description of uow and novel 
fruits, and can make even an old experi¬ 
enced hand believe the article is something 
extraordinarily line. h. l. 
Cnper Red Hook. N. Y. 
R. N.-Y.—Who cau give full informa¬ 
tion? 
Mossy Gall of the Rose 
Last Spring a bush came up ou this 
farm which we thought was a rose, from 
its foliage and thorns. It is now about 
3 ft. high, but in place of budding u rose 
it brought forth a “something" the like 
of which has never been seeu in this 
vicinity* and I am sending a bud—or 
whatever it is, to you—for identification. 
There are a great many of them ou the 
bush. E. c. v. 
Friendship, N, Y. 
The growth sent resembled in appear¬ 
ance a cotton boll composed of oakum, 
growing from the flower stem of a wild 
rose. We realized that ibe abnormality 
was due to insect attack, and ou submit¬ 
ting it to Mr. Fred J. Seaver, Curator, 
New York Botanical Garden, this view 
was confirmed. Mr. Senvei says: 
“The peculiar growth sent iii for deter¬ 
mination is the mossy rose gall, caused by 
the insect Rhodites Rosa*. This is only 
one of the many such growths, including 
the May apple galls of oak. which are 
often sent in as the fruiting stage of 
some plant, when they are really ab¬ 
normal growths caused by the presence 
of certain insects.” 
The White-pine Weevil 
1 have sotu g white pines and spruce 
which are being attacked by n worm bor¬ 
ing its way down from the top. 1 under¬ 
stand that this pest propagates in cur¬ 
rant and gooseberry bushes, but I can 
find uoue in the immediate vicinity of 
these trees. I have, however, an aspara¬ 
gus bed nearby, and have seen a similar 
worm in this, and wondered if it were 
only currants and gooseberries which 
were breeding places. I have noticed that 
most of the white pines planted in my 
neighborhood are, in the same way, dying 
off at the top, due to borers. M. a. c. 
Grotou Lake. N. Y. 
white-pine weevil. It is becoming diffi¬ 
cult to grow white pines in pure plant¬ 
ings or in small isolated groups on ac¬ 
count of the abundance of this weevil and 
its persistent and serious injuries. It 
lias no connection whatever with cur¬ 
rants, gooseberries or asparagus. 
The weevils pass the Winter under 
debris in protected places, 'and in the 
.Spring become active and fly to the young 
piueS. Here the mother weevil digs shal¬ 
low niches in the tender bark of the ter¬ 
minal twigs or leaders, and deposits a 
tiny white egg in each one. The eggs 
soon hatch, and the grubs bore in the 
tender sapwood and inner bark to obtain 
nourishment. The leaves of the infested 
leader wither, turn brown and the brauch 
eventually dies. Thus the growth of the 
tree is checked, the main stem becomes 
crooked and deformed, and the symmetry 
of the tree, is spoiled. 
Unfortunately, no satisfactory method 
of control for the weevil has yet been 
found. Some experiments in spraying 
infested trees with arsenate of lead early 
in the season have not given wholly sat¬ 
isfactory results. The spraying should 
be done in May. and (» lbs. of paste ar¬ 
senate of lead should be used to 50 gal¬ 
lons of water. Cutting out the infested 
leaders and burning them as soon as evi¬ 
dence of infestation has been found is 
perhaps most satisfactory in the case of 
a few trees. When the mader is removed 
a side branch will soon begin to grow 
upward and take the place of the terminal 
branch. Some attempts have been made 
to catch the weevils in insect nets during 
May. before they have deposited their 
eggs. At best this is laborious and un¬ 
satisfactory. GLENN W, HEBKICK. 
Screech Owls and Small Birds 
On page 991 I note an article called 
“Increase in Bird Population." signed 
Harvey Losev. The answer to the ques¬ 
tion as to the “great reduction" of swal¬ 
lows, etc., is contained in the article 
itself—“screech owls,” I speak from ex¬ 
perience. Owls of any kiml are enemies 
to small birds. To be sure, they do eat 
mice and various moths and injurious 
beetles, hut their easiest prey is in the 
nesting season, when the helpless, tiny 
birds are easy game for the owls. 
When we first came to this house we 
noticed that, for all there are tX)0 acres 
of private estate, that is, mostly undis¬ 
turbed wood, across the road there was 
an utter silence all Spring and Summer, 
as if an enchantment had been laid in 
this immediate locality. The next Win¬ 
ter, when 1 had long hours of idle recu¬ 
peration ou my porch, I noticed the nut¬ 
hatches or woodpeckers keeping away 
from a certain venerable elm by the gate. 
No reason that I could see, but I was 
just idly interested. One day on a limb 
stump I uotiped an owl! On investiga¬ 
tion we found a perfect home for him 
there. We filled up the deep hole with 
small stones and filled it with a concrete 
mixture. 
I give you my word that not an hour 
passed before there was excitement 
among the birds! Nuthatches, wood¬ 
peckers. jays, chickadees, brown creepers 
—all ran up and down that elm—actual¬ 
ly peered at the stopped-up hole—and 
passed the word along! Now we have 
birds without number iu our elms all 
year around. Any authority will verify 
my statement, that owls are the enemy 
direct to small birds; John Burroughs, 
encyclopedia ami various bird books. 
EDITH BALDWIN EMERSON. 
Controlling Mites 
I can give a remedy to get rid of mites 
that has been a complete success with me. 
When I began keeping poultry my hens 
starred with the mites, and I used all the 
remedies suggested by different poultry 
writers, including whitewashing and 
spraying with different insecticides, but 
found it was a continuous performance, 
so I bored holes about 6 in. apart in the 
perches with a bit, then every day I 
removed them, covered them with kero¬ 
sene oil and burned it off. 
This destroyed the eggs of the mites, as 
well as the mites, and as the habit of the 
mite is to leave the heu about daylight 
and hide in the crevices of the perch, it 
was mil loug before I was rid of them. 
The bpst lice powder I have ever used is 
one of which formula was printed in The 
R. N.-Y'. some years ago, composed of 
plaster of Paris, red pepper and gaso¬ 
line. It is so loug ago since I have made 
any that I have forgotten the exact 
recipe. B. m. 
Salem Depot. N. H. 
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The worst enemy of young white pines 
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