The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-05-26
Fuschia, Hydrangea and Asparagus
Plumosa, Display of Julipe BIS our
hostess.
Respectfully submitted,
Mrs. S. o. EGGERT.
MRS. II. n. SLUssER,

was the most noXious weed he had to
contend with last year. Buck Plantain
was also becoming troublesome.
Mr.. Krider thinks from present indi.
cations the Horse Dock is likely to be
our worst enemy in the near future.
Mr.. McGregor thinks the only effectu.
al means of eradicating weeds, is by
thorough cultivation.
Mr.. Mofiitt recommends keeping sheep
as destructive agency against noxious
weeds, but is not so bitterly opposed TO
weeds when he remembers how many
useful and beautiful birds depend for
their lives upon the seeds of these same
weeds.
QUERY
What will prevent rot in May Duke
Cherries'
Krider says, thorough spraying with
Bordeaux Mixture.
What will destroy currant worms 7
Answer, Spray with Hellebore or Paris
green. Pres. Hayhurst believed he had
prevented them by spreading quick lime
under the bushes.
Your committee on Nomenclature Of
fruit beg leave to make the following
report
VIM. Huston has two exhibits Of apples
for name, we name one Sweet Romantic
the other one is Ben Davis.
n. L. Moffitt presents two varieties of
apples for name, one is Romantic the
other variety is carried over to the next
meeting for comparison.
Mr.. Faust presents a fine specimen of
apple for name, we call it the Ben Davis.
Mr.. VIM. Slusser has a very fine speci-
men Of Baldwin variety of apples on the
table.
There is an exhibit of two apples upon
the table. Not accompanied with the
exhibitors name, we think they are of
the Ben Davis family.
All the Exhibits are in most splendid
state of preservation.
REPORT OF THE ENToMoLoGIsT.
The Industry of Science is too we'll
known these days to need more than
reference. Science is continually on
the outlook for data and spoils, searching
for new facts to explain the mysteries Of
nature and the changes that have taken
place. Recently scientists from the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington re-
turned from Greenland bringing with
them trophies which tell most wonderful
stories.
These explorers brought with them
fromIthe land of glaciers snow and "the
fossil remains Of plants and trees that
grew only in a tropical climate, to-wit
giant tree ferns resembling the ferns Of
Brazil, fossil remains Of the redwood
tree which still grows in California, and
the Australian eucalyptus. These fossils
bear testimony to the fact that Greenland
at one time had an atmosphere as gentle
and climate as mild as the Bermudas,
and that the change in the climate is at
tributable to the change in the angle of
the earth's axis, throwing the slanting
rays of the sun more and more upon
Greenland until from the coral strand of
India it became "Greenland's icy noun
tains," whose eternal SHOWS dazzle the
eyes and renders the country habitable
only by the Eskimos."
Science also has furnished evidence of
a tropical condition where dwelt large
quadrupeds that could not exist there
now. The same can be said of this
county, for every once in while fossil
remains of monster extinct quadrupeds
are found. OF course in those days in
sects abou"ded and had their time but
their remains soon perished and left
nothing for future time. All this shows
what great revolutions have transpired
on this earth and are probably still going
though not so rapidly as to be observed
by us. Let us remember there is no limit
to time any more than to space, called
the universe.
But there are other fields of discovery.
For instance the beetle carried camera
long before photography was discovered
by man. Ages before man discovered the
many mysteries of photography and
worked out the problem of the lens the
little beetle was carrying round with him
a snap camera ofthe most unique and in
teresting character. This camera was pro-
vided with at least ahundred photograph
ic lenses, each perfect and in natures
finest working fettle.
All know that the BEETLE has the curious
projecting eye, very similar to the sort
one sometimes sees i'll man himself The
eye is large and round, or almost so. It
can hardly be called a perfect sphere for
it is slightly convex in shape. Such in
sects have eyes called compound, formed
not of one lens, but of several hundreds,
set side by side, like cells in honey
comb.
DIR. Allen, of England, the famous
scientist, as we'll as physician, took the
cornea of the eye of bettle and employ
ed it in place of the usual Photographic
lens of the camera used for making pho
tographs of microscopic objects, A sill
houette of head was pasted on a piece
OF ground glass and lamp placed be-
hind it. A Photographic dry plate was
exposed to the light coming through the
bettle's eye from the silhouette and de-
veloped in the usual manner
The resulting multigraph was circular,
and contained several hundred images of
the profle-one, indeed, for each facet
of the eve II seems reasonably cIear