The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-09-16

other, produce plant lice. Natural laws
will not permit such q state of affairs.
Like begets like in the insect world.
just as persistently as 1t does In the
higher animals. The progeny OF a
ladybird is always a ladybird like the
parent insect. The young of a lady
bird. however, looks very different
from the adult. In fact. the young of
some species resemble minute alliga-
tors in general appearance, and are
gaily colored. They feed almost en-
tirely upon soft-bodied insects.
Beech Hedges.
The tourist in Scotland, as his
brothers elsewhere, with his hurry and
scurry, forever in haste to see every
thing in a few days, too often passes
by the smaller objects of interest and
thus really accomplishes little of his
vast undertaking, says the New York
Tribune. The beech hedge is one OF
these too often neglected wonders OF
nature. Not that it Is a smaller OBJ
ject Of interest by any means. for 1t
stands over 100 feet high. The beech
hedge is the property Of the marquis
of Lansdown. at Meiklour. P%erthshire,
and was planted in or about the year
1745 by a party Of highlanders en-
camped there for a few days while on
their way to join the %pretender, Prince
Charlie. This mammoth hedge, which
indeed deserves the name of being one
of the modern wonders Of the world,
is a fitting monument to commemorate
the ~pretender's defeat at Culloden, "the
last battle ever fought on English
SOIL"
Surface Fires in Forests.-Surface
fires may be checked if they are feeble
by beating them out with green
branches, or by raking the leaves away
from a narrow strip across their
course. When the duff is deep or the
soil peaty, a fire may burn beneath the
surface of the ground for weeks or even
months, sometimes showing its pres
ence by a little smoke, sometimes with
out giving any sign of life. Even a
heavy rain may fail to quench a fire of
this kind, which often breaks out again
long after it is believed to be entirely
extinct. Fires which thus burn into
this ground can sometimes be checked
only by digging a trench through the
layer Of decaying wood and other veg
etable matter to the mineral soil be-
reath.. The most dangerous and de-
slructive forest fires are those which
run both along the ground and in the
tops of the trees. They can be check
ed only by rain or change of wind, or
by meeting some barrier which they
cannot pass. A barrier of this kind is
often made by starting another fire
some distance ahead Of the principal
one.
Wheat for Macaroni.-M. A. Garlic
ton Of the department of agriculture,
who last year brought to this country
a large number of species Of grain from
Russia and Siberia, is about starting
for the west to follow out the line of
this work with cereals. He is. espe-
cially interested in visiting Arizona
and New Mexico with the idea of es-
tablishing there the hard macaroni
wheats. Mr.. Carleton is assured that
If these wheats can be grown in this
country the manufacture OF genuine
italian" macaroni will be at once
taken up. Some macaroni is now man
ufactured in the United States, but the
best is imported, as the wheat grown
here is not suitable for its manufac-
ture. Mr.. Carleton also intends visit
ing the irrigated wheat sections OF
Utah and Idaho, where such immense
yields are secured, being more than
double. 1t is stated, an ordinary heavy
crop under dry farming.
Pig Feeding.-It is improbable for
any swine raiser to stint his animals,
as they should be made to grow every
day, says Farm, Stock and Home.
After ten days or two weeks pigs
should be fed generously through their
dams, and at three or four weeks pro-
vided with a place where they can OBJ
tain, unmolested, a little feed of slop
and soaked shelled corn. Keep them
growing every day, and at an early
age they win be ready for the market
at a profit to the raiser. II pigs are
allowed to stop. growing and become
stunted it is very hard, to start them
anew, not to mention the loss of feed,
time and labor. Pigs enclosed IN a
dry lot or yard, and given only dry,
hard corn and hard water seldom yield
a handsome profit. They need a va
riety of food, such as will expand the |
stomach and at the same time be coo.-
ing to the system. Corn, alone, is too
heating.
Names Apple G!op.-A year ago the
apple crop in Maine was one of the
smallest on record, but there is every
indication that 1t will be no larger,
even ii it is not smaller, this season.
The experts say that a large percentage
of the trees in most sections Of the
state did not blossom and those that
did have been greatly injured by the
ravages Of the so-called tent cater
pillar, many orchards having been al
most entirely stripped Of their leaves
by this pest.-Ex.
Bermuda Lilies in the South.-Sec-
rotary Wilson has sent large numbers
Of Bermuda lily bulbs into several
of the Southern states, with. a view to
s%uppianting the Bermuda Easter trade,
which annually sends out Of the coun-