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More per Ton for 
Your Hay 
Save the leaves and retain the color. 
Remember, leaves contain sixty per cent 
of the protein and eighty per cent of the 
fat. Rake your hay immediately after 
it is cut with a John Deere-Dain System 
Rake. Drive in the same direction as 
you went with the mower, putting the 
leaves in the shade while they are still 
active, and the stems in the sun. By 
doing this, you take the moisture out of 
the plant in the natural way, through 
the leaves, and your hay will have twice 
the food value as when made under 
the old system. 
You can make the windrows nice and 
fluffy by using the Dain System Rake, 
with the inclined 
frame and the 
curved teeth. 
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1 jobs, or spend the pleasant hours “hik¬ 
ing" or riding about in ears. If the soft 
training which young folks are getting 
now is fully carried out, who is to feec 
the coming swarms of humanity? The 
chemists say they will be fed very largely 
from the laboratory, but no one will ever 
produce strawberries by chemistry or run 
vitamines out of a test tube. They may 
prepare chemical substitutes for bread, 
and possibly for meat, but the finer and 
more delicate food products will be pro¬ 
duced in the same old way. That will 
mean better opportunity for those of us 
who still like to work in the soil The 
girl scouts go hiking on with many a 
backward wave. Here are people .after 
strawberry plants. We have them all dug 
and ready—100 Marshall. 50 Gandy and 
50 Big Joe. The young mau wants to try 
a few everbearers, so we will dig a few 
Progressives for good measure. And the 
young woman has heard that we have 
some kittens to dispose of! Have we? 
There are three families, or parts of fam¬ 
ilies uow on hand. But these little cats 
seem to know when to act out Home 
Sweet Home, and they run into their hid¬ 
ing places as they see us coming. One 
little black fellow falls a victim to curios¬ 
ity. He peeps out of his hole and we get 
him, and off he goes to his new home. 
Here comes Mother, home from her visit 
to the pawnbrokers. No news of the 
watch—but they think it may be present¬ 
ed yet. We have about 1,300 plants in, 
and it looks like a good time to stop. The 
girl will take her wheel and go after the 
mail. I am going up to the orchard to 
sit on my big rock and look off over the 
valley for a time. Some folks like to get 
into a car and go whirling off over the 
road, seeing nothing in particular, and 
smelling nothing but gasoline. I prefer 
my perch on the hill among the trees, 
with the wide valley spread out before 
me—a checker-board of green and pink 
and white, with patches of sunlight here 
and there. As I sit here it occurs to me 
that we are close to Decoration Day, and 
I can imagine my neighbor, the Grand 
Army man, coming across the fields to sit 
with me for a while as he did years ago. 
It is a good time to go back into history 
with him, and we will do it next week. 
Crop 
Insurance 
it 
(To be continued) 
H. w. c. 
Post Office Quarantine Rules 
Fifteen Federal quarantines which af¬ 
fect plants and plant products have been 
listed by the Post Office Department for 
the guidance of postmasters in the han¬ 
dling of products offered for transmission 
by mail, and a warning nas been issued 
that the greatest caution must be exer¬ 
cised in accepting such matter to avoid 
violating the provisions of the quaran¬ 
tines. 
The list includes the following orders, 
all affecting matter which may be trans¬ 
ported by mail: No. G, date palms; No. 
13, Hawaiian fruits and vegetables; No. 
16, sugar cane; No. 26, five-leafed pines, 
currants and gooseberries (which are 
also covered by No. 54) ; No. 30, sweet 
potatoes and yams; No. 32, banana 
plants; No. 38, black stem rust; No. 43, 
European corn-borer; No. 45, gypsy and 
brown-tail moths; No. 47, Hawaiian and 
Porto Rican cotton, cottonseed and cot¬ 
tonseed products; No. 48, Japanese bee¬ 
tle; No. 51, regulating certain commodi¬ 
ties destined for Hawaii; No. 52, pink 
boll worm ; No. 53, satin moth ; No. 41, 
plants, fruits and vegetables from the 
Philippine Islands, Guam, Tutuila, Ma¬ 
nila, Canal Zone and Virgin Islands 
(also covered by No. 56). 
In addition postmasters are again in¬ 
formed that the States of Arizona, Ar¬ 
kansas, California, Florida, Georgia, 
Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, Oregon, 
l 1 tah and Washington, the Territory of 
Hawaii and the District of Columbia 
provide for terminal inspection of cer¬ 
tain plants and plant products, and that 
all such parcels addressed for delivery in 
those States must be marked to show 
the nature of their contents and may not 
be delivered to the addressee until in¬ 
spection has been made. 
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Pyrox is a finely milled paste that 
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covers foliage thoroughly and sticks like 
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Bowker s Bodo—A ready-mixed Bordeaux, 10% copper. 
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1. I have a seedling peach tree which 
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1. ^ ery likely it is the curculio that is 
bothering your peaches. This beetle-like 
insect punctures the skin of the fruit 
early in its development, and the result 
is to be seen in malformed fruits and 
gummy exudations. Spraying with 3 lbs. 
of arsenate of lead to 100 gals, of water 
when the shucks are falling is the stand¬ 
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2. For the propagation of the Christ¬ 
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are used. For the propagation of new 
varieties, however, seed is sown, the sow¬ 
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