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The oldest American enterprise for 
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W DIAMOND BRAND COMPOST 
Well Rotted Horse Manure 
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It is free from weed seeds, largely HUMUS and rich 
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will enable the grass to withstand the hot dry months of 
Summer. 
For new lawns it is invaluable. 
Excellent results can be had when used in the flower and 
vegetable gardens. 
Put up in bags 100 lbs. each. 
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NEW YORK STABLE MANURE CO. 
273 Washington St. Jersey City, N. J. 
The wheat wireworm measures, when 
full grown, about an inch in length, and 
it is about as thick as the lead in a pencil. 
Its adult is a small, brown beetle only 
about one-quarter of an inch long. This 
is the most common wireworm of the 
Northeastern and Middle-Western States. 
The wheat wireworm is normally a 
grass feeder, living on the roots of sod, 
and, with the abundance of its natural 
food supply, producing no appreciable dis¬ 
turbance in the meadows, but when the 
sod land is broken these wireworms con¬ 
centrate in the drill rows or hills of corn, 
the usual crop to follow sod in the East¬ 
ern United States, and often produce ab¬ 
solute failure of the crop by destroying 
the seed and eating off the roots of such 
plants as may germinate. This species 
is usually more destructive, therefore, on 
land recently broken from sod. 
To combat the wheat wireworm, the 
Department’s specialist recommends plow¬ 
ing sod land immediately after the first 
hay cutting, usually early in July, when 
the land is intended for corn the following 
year. This land should be cultivated 
deeply throughout the remainder of the 
summer. Land that is in corn and badly 
infested should be deeply cultivated, even 
at the risk of slightly “root-pruning” the 
corn. This cultivation should be con¬ 
tinued as long as the corn can be culti¬ 
vated, and as soon as the crop is removed 
the field should be very thoroughly culti¬ 
vated before sowing to wheat. In re¬ 
gions where wheat is seeded down for hay 
any treatment of infested wheat fields is 
precluded. Where wheat is not followed 
by seeding, the field should be plowed as 
soon as the wheat is harvested. 
Thorough preparation of the corn seed 
bed and a liberal use of barnyard manure 
or other fertilizer will often give a fair 
stand of corn, in spite of the wireworms, 
a vigorous plant often being able to pro¬ 
duce roots enough to withstand the depre¬ 
dations of several wireworms. 
The wireworms that attack corn and 
cotton are not hard and wiry as are most 
of the tribe, but soft and elongated. When 
full grown these grubs are about an inch 
in length, but scarcely thicker than pack 
thread. Unlike most of the Eastern wire- 
worms, which are usually most destructive 
in damp, low-lying fields, these insects 
seem to be far more numerous on the 
higher parts of the fields in light, sandy 
soil. These wireworms are among the 
most troublesome species of the Southern 
States. Investigators are, as yet, unable 
to recommend definitely any cultural meth¬ 
od, but it is probable that something in 
the near future will he shown to be ef¬ 
fective. 
As these worms are of three different 
ages in most infested fields, and as only 
about one-third of these will be in the 
pupal stage each year, it is evident that 
the first year of this practice will not 
show startling results. However, if the 
practice is continued for a couple of years 
it will undoubtedly reduce the number of 
these pests very considerably. 
February, 1915 
Was the Official Number of 
the Kaiser’s Personal Spy 
These cryptic figures stand for Dr. Arm- 
gaard Karl Graves, the man without a 
country and a name. “ 17 ” was used 
to sign his personal cipher dispatches 
and “ 34 ” the official reports and 
communications. In his book, THE 
SECRETS OF THE GERMAN WAR 
OFFICE, Dr. Graves reveals the inner 
workings of the great German spy sys¬ 
tem and its influence on the hidden 
diplomacy of the great war. 
GERMAN SPY SENTENCED 
Extract from the Scotsman of July 23 , 1912 
There was a large attendance at the 
trial of Armgaard Karl Graves yesterday 
. . . .The prisoner was a well-built, 
dark-skinned, foreign looking man. He 
remained perfectly cool, made notes and 
cross examined with some ability. He 
conducted his own defence .... 
On being informed that he might chal¬ 
lenge the jury-men, he scrutinized them 
closely and challenged four who retired 
.... Inspector Trench, in giving 
evidence, said: 
“The prisoner on being arrested in his 
hotel had in his possession a doctor’s book 
apparently empty. This was found on 
inspection to contain two leaves stuck 
together. In the middle were sentences 
and figures — a code which had subse¬ 
quently been deciphered by a process of 
subtraction from the A. B. C. Code. 
.... Prisoner was sentenced to iS 
months’ imprisonment. He had already 
been 105 days in custody since the time 
of his arrest. 
The Secrets of the 
German War Office 
By 
DR. ARMGAARD KARL GRAVES 
Secret Agent 
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