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August 20, 
'Tt-ltC KUKAL iNKW -'i OivKKK 
THE ARMY WORM. 
(Continued from page lOlfi.) 
least six inches deep, with the perpendicu¬ 
lar or land side straight and clean, and 
away from the worms or next the crop to 
be protected. Deep holes 10 or 15 feet 
apart in the bottom of the furrow will 
often help, because the worms in their 
attempts to get out will crawl along the 
furrow and collect in the holes. As with 
all other barriers, this furrow is not a 
permanent bar, hut a temporary check, 
and we can easily kill the worms in it 
by crushing, by sprinkling with kerosene, 
or by covering with hay or straw and 
burning. In certain cases a log drawn 
back and forth in the furrow was found 
to be an excellent method of crushing the 
caterpillars. One Connecticut Yankee 
this year saved his corn by plowing a 
furrow around it, and spreading a layer 
of poisoned bran mash in the bottom of 
the furrow. It has been noticed that the 
worms will not cross a road which has 
just been treated with asphaltum oil. 
They can often be deflected from their 
line of march by sprinkling kerosene 
along the ground; but it is usually ad¬ 
visable to put the kerosene on the cater¬ 
pillars if you can get at them. 
Cultural Methods. —Fall plowing is 
usually advisable for the control of army 
worms. Even immediate plowing and 
thorough harrowing of badly infested 
fields, will destroy many worms and 
chrysalids by crushing, and by bringing 
them to the surface where birds can eat 
them. Grain, if ready to cut when the 
worms first attack it, may be saved by 
promptly reaping, binding and carting it 
to a field not iufested. to be cured. As 
soon as it has partially dried, the worms 
will not eat the leaves or pedicels. 
Future Prospects. —Seldom, if ever, 
does the army worm cause serious dam¬ 
age for two consecutive seasons, in the 
same locality. There will be another 
brood of worms this Fall, which may 
cause some injury to rowen, rye, or late 
vegetables in some localities. But the 
very severe parasitism leads us to believe, 
that in Connecticut, at least, there will 
>>e only slight damage from the next 
brood, and that it will be difficult to find 
any army worms next season. 
Conn. Exp. Sta. w. E. BRITTON. 
them, as now seems probable, our com¬ 
merce will be greatly increased, particu¬ 
larly with South America, a promising 
field that we have not been able to do 
much with because of having no merchant 
marine. Even though the seas may be 
fairly clear and ships running regularly 
to Europe, exports will not he normal so 
long as the war hangs in the balance, as 
at present, as there is too much delay 
and uncertainty about financing the ship¬ 
ments. War is a world habit. It would 
be difficult to find in historic times any 
50-year period without some war that 
could be called great, to which business 
has to adjust itself, yet the conditions 
vary so widely that the industrial adjust¬ 
ments of one war are not adapted to the 
next. 
THE WAR AND COMMERCE. 
T HE movement of shipping to British 
and French ports has increased ma¬ 
terially during the week, nearly 1.000.000 
bushels of wheat having been sent from 
Galveston, and 3,600,000 bushels of 
wheat and 75,000 barrels of flour from 
other ports. Grain speculators have 
again been active, buying back the hold¬ 
ings they sold when shipping stopped. 
Wheat prices are erratic, up five cents 
per bushel one day and down the next, 
as the speculative hysteria chances to 
run. Oats and corn are three to five 
cents higher, corn mainly because of 
drought, and oats on account of sales for 
war purposes. Flour has made further 
advances of 25 to 35 cents per barrel 
■m practically all grades, the jobbing 
price on earlots of patent from city mills 
being 86.85. 
Sugar has made a net advance of three 
cents per pound since the war began, 
granulated now wholesaling at $7 to 
87.50 per 100 pounds. The Continent of 
Europe usually produces about 4,000.000 
tons of beet sugar. The cane sugar crop 
>f the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands 
is reported large, five shiploads being 
now on the way from Atlantic ports via 
the Panama canal. 
The cotton export trade is looking a 
trifle better. Europe is expected to take 
3,000,000 bales less than normally, but 
will doubtless use much more of our 
manufactured goods. Japan will prob¬ 
ably take 2,000,000 bales of our raw cot¬ 
ton, as they are working actively to sup¬ 
ply the extensive cotton cloth trade of 
Ghina. 
The advance on meats previously re¬ 
ported has been only partially held. Pub¬ 
lic sentiment quickly gets after rises in 
meat prices, believing that they are usu¬ 
ally manipulated rather than necessary, 
and so much less meat is used that the 
dealers notice the lessened trade at once. 
There is no doubt, however, that all meat 
products will remain on a higher basis if 
the war continues for several months. 
Some of the tied-up German merchant 
ships now in New York harbor are sup¬ 
posed to be for sale. If this country buys 
COMING FARMERS’ MEETINGS. 
National Paving Brick Manufacturers’ 
Association, eleventh annual convention 
and paving conference Buffalo, N. Y„ 
September 1). 30. 11. 1014. Secretary, 
Will P. Blair, 832 B. of T,. E. Bldg., 
Cleveland, Ohio. 
National Dairy Show, Chicago, Ill., 
October 22-31. The following meetings 
and conventions will be held in connec¬ 
tion with the show: American Associa¬ 
tion Creamery Butter Manufacturers, 
Oct. 26. TIolstein-Friesian Association 
of America, Oct. 26. International Milk 
Dealers’ Association. Oct. 26 and 27. 
Conference, Secretaries of State Dairy¬ 
men’s Association, Oct. 27. Official Dairy 
Instructors’ Association, Oct. 27. Nation¬ 
al Dairy Union. Oct. 28. American Dairy 
Farmers’ Association. Oct. 28. Council 
of the National Dairy Show, Oct. 28. 
National Association of Creamery Man¬ 
agers and Owners, Oct. 28. American 
Jersey Cattle Club. Oct. 28. National 
Association of Ice C-eam Manufacturers, 
Oft-. 28. 20 and 30. International Asso¬ 
ciation of Dairy and Milk Inspectors, 
Oct. 20. American Guernsey Cattle Club, 
Oct. 20. Congress of Marketing. Oct. 20. 
Milk Producers’ Association. Oct. 30. 
New_ England Fruit Show, in connec¬ 
tion with the Rhode Island Fruit Grow¬ 
ers’ Association annual meeting, in Prov¬ 
idence. R. I.. November 0. 10. 11 and 
12; secretary, A. M. Parmelee, Norwood, 
R. I. 
National Grange, annual meeting, Wil¬ 
mington. Del., November 11-14. 
Maryland Week Exhibition. State Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, Maryland Crop Im¬ 
provement, Dairymen’s and Beekeepers* 
Associations, Baltimore. November 16- 
21 . 
Annual Show of the Paterson. N. J., 
Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Associa¬ 
tion. November 1X-21. 
Indiana Apple Show. Tomlinson Hall, 
Indianapolis. Ind., November 18-24. 
Western Connecticut Poultry Associa¬ 
tion of Danbury, Conn.. Inc., nineteenth 
annual exhibition. Hull’s Armory Ilall. 
Danbury. Nov. 26, 27, 28; secretary. 
Thomas Deans, 30 Hoyt St., Danbury, 
Conn. _ 
Hillsdale County was visited with 
splendid rains the week of August 10, 
and much good has resulted to pastures. 
Corn was helped, but much of the corn was 
too far gone to be saved and some had al¬ 
ready been cut for fodder. Late potatoes 
are little hurt by drought. Butter and 
eggs have risen some two cents in the 
past week. Some wheat is being held by 
the farmers and town people are feeling 
the high war prices when buying chicken 
feed. Shelled corn sells at 00. wheat at 
$1. prepared scratch feeds $2.25 a hun¬ 
dred. Poultry is good and quite plentiful, 
about 10% more being raised in southern 
Michigan and northern Indiana than last 
year. p. l. w. 
Michigan. 
Wheat or Straw? 
On some of tlie best wheat land the crop runs to 
straw. I his is because there are not enough avail¬ 
able mineral foods to balance the manure or clover. 
A field test on such land showed that Potash 
increased the grain from 20 bushels on unfertil¬ 
ized soil to 31 bushels where 
POTASH 
was used, and to 37 bushels where Potash and 
phosphate were used. Both were profitable. 
Supplement the humus of such land with 200 lbs. 
acid phosphate and 30 lbs. Muriate of Potash or 
125 lbs. Kainit per acre. Potash Pays. 
If your dealer does not sell Potash, write us for prices, 
quantities required, and ask for our free book on 
rail Fertilizers.” Study of the fertilizer question 
means saving and profit to you. 
RIGHT PROPOR¬ 
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Apple Barrels 
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Catalogue froo. W. N. SCARFF, New Carlisle, Ohio 
Russian Pitkus Seed Ryei^WS^^het 
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SFFn WHFAT— Foster’s Rod Wave. $1.75 per bn. 
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DREER’S 
Potted Strawberries 
Planted now will produce a full crop next 
year. Our Mid-summer Catalogue offers 
best varieties and gives directions for 
growing. Also offers seasonable Seeds 
and Plants of all kinds. 
Winter Vetch 
Genuine "Vieia Villosa,” the only reliable vetch 
for Fall sowing. Excellent cover crop, hay and 
green manure.WriteforLeutletiiml price of seed. 
HENRY A. DREER 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
WHEAT a,H * Timothy Seed sold direct. Why not 
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CHOICE SEED 
Grand Prize.” Prices right. Write for description 
and sample. J. N. McPherson, Scottsville, N. Y. 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
POT-GROWN AND RUNNER 
For AUGUST and FALL planting. Also Raspberry and 
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77730 li* 
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We are trying lo furnish. Write for sample* ( 
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STRAWBERRY PLANTS SALE 
August, September, October. Layer plants—v,cl 
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PHOSPHORUS 
Is the limiting ele¬ 
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soils in the Middle and Eastern States. 
ROCK P0HSPHATE 
has been 
proven to be the only economical and 
permanent source of Phosphorus by 18 
years of experiments by the Experiment 
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Let us show you how you can secure in¬ 
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GROUND ROCK DEPT. 
No. 30 W. Main St., Columbia, Tenn. 
30ft ftftft SHEERIN’S FRESH DUG 
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r- 
fek We h:i ve 900.000 Fruit Trees and wish w reduce 
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Apple. First Class Z Vr. atS7 per 100 I Pear, First ClassZ Vr.atSS perlOO 
Peach. “ “ 1 "aiS7.50“ “ | Cherry, " “ 2 "at SI I" “ 
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price. THE WM. J. REILLY NURSERIES, 22 Ossian St., DANSVILLE. N.Y. 
Originators of “Trees at lioif Agents Brice.” 
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Evergreen Trees and Shrubs 
i. e., Spruce, Pine, Hemlock, Juniper, etc., 
transplant well during August, September and 
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