The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-08-11

yours, and of every man, woman and
child who dwell in our fair country
or dwell here in the faIture.-E. l.
Burke, Genoa, -Neb., in Kansas Far
mer.
WAY TO Bash CATEPILLARS.
1t begins to look as if the destruuc,
i've brown-tail and gypsy moths ant
the pestiferous caterpiller have been
conquered at last. A simple diet OF
lettuce leaves, it has been found, is
the easiest and best way to get rid
of them. All that you have to do
if the cateupiller are spelling your shrub
and trees is to catch one or two OF
thema nd feed them on some lettuce
that has been soaked in water four
days. After they have eaten all they
care to, turn the caterpillers loose
again. They will do the rest.
The explanation is simple. 1t has
been discovered that watered lettuce
Leaves give caterpillers the cholera.
One caterpillar so irEected quickly
spreads the diseased mongits fellows.
In Massachusetts the epidemic is
spreading among caterpilars, brown
tails and gypsies, much to the de
light of the state entomologists, who
almost despained of ever getting rid
of the pests.
"A caterpillar suffering from oatenpil
lar cholera or wilt disease soon stops
eating, according to the explanation
Offered by Prof. William Reiff, of Har-
varo 1t becomes weak and lazy and
usually crawls up on some object, as
the trunk of the tree, a fence, a wally
or other verticle surface, where it
remains without motion. In "a lew
hours thened nops fImo its mouth a
blackish liquid, the caterpillar be-
comes more and more flaccid, one leg
after another loses its support and
finally the creature, reduced to a
black skin, hangs dead, still holding
on with one of two of the false fest.
From the New York World.
WILL BEAT BREAD CASTING.
Missouri railroads are considering
plan which, from the sordid viaw-
point of most business (supposad to
include railroads), has several
points OVER the biblicaly recommended
act OF casting bread on the waters.
Thet hing the railroads will do,if the
efforts of Missoun's State Board Of
Agriculture meet success, will be to
transport free of charge, to conven-
lent shipping points, frtilizing MATER
ial for use on Missouri farms. 1t is
estimated that 10000 cars of waste.
(mostly manure from the stock yards
can be hauled out of the larger Giles
each year. This in line wi1ho ther
work the railroads are doing fer the
common good, and yet they figure
that from this particular move may
come crop benod!ts that may soon
pay them back in increased freight on
farm Observation-Disclosures Ruralist.
FATTENING HOGS WITH FIELD
PEAS.
With hogs the vines may be raked
up and threshed for seed. The hogs
will pick up every pea from the gnoun
cat and digest it, Hogs may be run
with lambs or cattle ON pea ground
to advantage. They eat and like
the straw as well as the grain. Pork
from paas is equal To that from corn.
Thrashd field peas pay about the
same as a good crop, with very much
less expense
The mutton from lambs and Sheep
fattened upon the peas is of pecu-
liar good quality, The han meet is
rich in color. the fat white, the flesh
firm and of the best flavor. Pea-fed
mutton tops the Chicago market when
furnished in good shape.
Our state experimental station is
sued literature naf-rning TO results
OF stock feeding with field peas that
give evidence OF no little Importance