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front of a great church Jim saw a poor 
woman, cold and hungry. He went up 
to offer her a good meal, but a police¬ 
man prodded him with a stick and told 
him to move on. He saw a man on the 
street and stopped to converse with him. 
“Get out!” said the stranger. “You 
can’t bunco me.” Day after day .Tim 
Hardy, the farmer, saw the fierce, sel¬ 
fish struggle for life in the great city. 
Tlie great buildings, the theatre.s. Broad¬ 
way at night—they were all splendid, but 
behind and under them lay the meanness, 
the selfish spirit—the lack of neighboi’- 
ly feeling, which galled the farmer to 
the heart. On the third night Bill took 
his brother to a great reception. Just 
as they walked into the brilliant room 
.Tim glanced from the window and saw a 
lioliceman throw a weak and sickly man 
out of a public room where he was try¬ 
ing to get warm. 
“What did I tell you, .Tim?” said Bill, 
“Isn’t this worth a year on your old 
hills?” And Jim could only think of 
one thing to say : 
‘'Bill, old fellow, I don'* see how you 
can live in such a God-forsaken placed’' 
Tiif; Answer. —What do you make out 
of it? One brother thinks God has for¬ 
saken the country, while the other says 
lie has for.saken the city! To me they 
prove that God is everywhere. Some 
may not find Him, since they look for 
Him only in things which are agreeable 
to them, and that is rarely the place to 
l.iol:. I think, too, that like .Tim and 
Bill—all children come into the world 
with natural tendencies and inclinations 
which, if worthy, should be encouraged 
rather than repressed. Both .Tim and 
Bill are needed in American life. 
n. w. c. 
Bee Moth 
Will you tell me what the encTosi-d 
specimen is, aid if there is any way to 
keep it out of my bee hives? I lost two 
good swarms by it last year. I have three 
bee books; they all mention the bee moth, 
but give no description of it, or tell any¬ 
thing about it. J. w. ir. 
Antrim, N. H. , 
These cocoons are the result of the 
work of the bee moth, and are found when 
a colony becomes too weak to defend it¬ 
self from that insect. The remedy is to 
maintain all colonies in good condition by 
seeing to it that they have good, vigorons 
queens and are kept in tight, moth-proof 
hives. Doubling ujt of we.ak colonies may 
be practiced to maintain full .strength and 
defensive power. A vigorous colony will 
defend itself, a weak one cannot and suc¬ 
cumbs. not so much as a result of the 
work of the bee moth as of .a gradually 
decreasing vit.ality which permits the bee 
moth to get in its work. 5f. u. u. 
Rotation for Sweet Potatoes 
I sincerely hoi)e no one el.se got the 
impression I’rof. Ma.ssey did from read¬ 
ing my article on “Rotation for .Sweet 
Potatoes” on page 0. His comments on 
page 111 would leave the impression that 
I recommended planting the same land 
in sweet potatoes year after year. I 
certainly did not recommend any such 
plan, as a .second reading of my article 
will i)rove. A rotation of some sort is 
essential to continmal succe.ss in growing 
almost any crop, but it is especially so 
for sweets. 
The rotation mentioned by I'rof. 
Massey on page 111 is a good one, and 
with the exception of white ymtatoes is 
just about the same in principle as the 
one used here. White j)otatoe.s are sel¬ 
dom grown here on the light soils whei-e 
sweet potatoes do their best. Al.^i, we 
find in most instances it is not best beie 
in South .Tersey to use flrimson clover 
as a cover crop to precede sweers. es¬ 
pecially if the land has been well fed * 
and green crops plowed under in pre- ' 
vious years. The clover is apt to force a 
heavy vine growth which results in a 
poor set of rather stringy rooty .pota¬ 
toes. 
As mentioned before, the rotation we 
like best is: First year early tomatoes, 
second year clover .sod, clover having 
been .sown in late August after tomatoes 
were off. Thiro year cantaloupes, mel¬ 
ons or corn with lye sown in early Fall 
as a Cover ci’op. Fourth year sweet po¬ 
tatoes. After sweets are dug rye is i 
sown again to make humus for tin* to¬ 
mato crop which follows the ,.\e<*ts. 
This rotation will help build up a sandy 
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soil, and at the same time help to elim¬ 
inate loss from diseases which creep in 
where rotations are not followed. 
TRUCKER, JR. 
Raising Locust from Seed 
Will you tell just how to grow locust 
from seed and when to plant the seed? 
Moscow, N. Y. j. u. 
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