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Udd bila of aurin etst?ir� fn �" 1 " '`r�' nips Aa me" C94 ]iesi the tinkle tin"lcte wolf and who wi l feed them, taking pastus+cs wad last yestr'a graem alwaey t ` J1,, stow rvre Zryfug to take O:e the. hello :go soft an low , I e'to make' thcim sod will one year have also contain g pe, •;. ORAPTE$ VU -.(Continued..) darn than three tailless oats J Of course doy� ... yirhigk'` t a `hgrtl bore thio bl the wI h ono ,her, find s cwuditIon stead- ciajly numerous the m too. I htha .' Y '"I shall have to do it," he ,said to there are a good malty in the world; ..I'"wondy>r Yom am look any oaue in olpvei+ ug it 1 roving. Of course as a 'fl er,• y ����' I -1. but still most cats have tails. th'a - or timothy, !ways en Q[ the Did barn lou also; p ht', corn and hers,.'" They're all at me- uncle Roger, Neaera. ' He's rice sad Satanic.' Ijoy 1°q#�'g You in that (And to nae no eweet,Q_ music when all the mousy la in the stockers. clover ase eaten, -by the worms. '.�hr Tommy Isabel --all of them. I'm The Pwkton cats were black, too.-- „ From the oxga:n eve swell* There are seasons, too, when there is fruit stalks is stripped of its leaves, JJnd Y ' black as ink or the heart of a money- After the �thinlfe you've said about' Than tyle tinkle, tinkle, tinkle ' no money in feeding, and there are oth- the head is cut at sand fails to thq_ taitot if I ever interfere with anybRdY'b leader. PcoN ora i Of thhe uneudow's matchless belle. them when all the Money that is mads ground ,whore it is elwtean more or le+sp, a ;1' marriage again." An old favourite 1" asked George. in- in the cattle business seeing to be there. The worms at fLrat eat wl>at is near, I. shouldn't I call her Neaeral" In this marnin of a troyhood But b ra arils the Ma Toe defeatbu of Isabel rankled In his ,sidiously: "Ob', no reason at ell. It may even Which Y g $ Arcxluctiov of at hand. and a number of them in dlP.> 1• -.' mind wosRt of all That she, of all poo- "I"ver had him a good many Yearia• be name,+• has never ennead away beeir as one operation, from the Deli to ferent parts of the field may eat away D' I drive the aid herd homeward the shambles, sad. "PIs, should turn Oh I„ A wo there is always some pro- for some time without being soli { against him, aid• u The last word slipped from NwAra a �. ,, whl° traokbitet3 is bad, trot t tie closing oI the dayy ; tit in it when them is profit in any. As will have been seen Liam the state. +0 1. ' And � to me sweet Recollection thing'. 4� b ,. a last insult, send him upbraiding mea- Involuntarily. rent that the mot leave their eg� "'I11 1a the doucel" mild inquiring- Stories of that bo hood tells 9 0 r ?' x,k- sages through Tommy Myles t This she Why ' ah I"' ly. q While I listen tot music .�,. whenever possible in the richest t s ,t bad done, and George was full of I'd fan$ottea his milk:' answered Laura tried another tack. "All of grass, the worms hatch oat in,g'rou , ',h �* Neaera, with extraordinary prompti- Of the old herd'* homely bells. f Your frields 'think on wren even or amines in various parte o! th. ilei �^ �i wraith, tude. mamma." Y g' .�RM� WARM ON THE MARCH It is when these, having eatery ghat- � rx{,. "`v " A note for you sir," said Timms, en- "Whom did you g� t him?" There. they came, up through the ever is at hand, unite with each other it t y. 'dna W t does that matter, as long as11 r`Q;.1-, r, - tering in his usual silent mirnnar. Neaera was quite ca, again. " some you I,nyx clover, ...._, and move on for new forager that the R ` :l "'s: nQ friends gave him to me. -Please don't sap •'I dont I donl't. P,I think--" Sno O'er the pith beloved of old, farmer ea whet has been 1 h Tirums had no views Olt the controversy, 1 FARMERS AGAIN TIIOUBLED WITH �e g°A O1u �,' T slots my oat, too, Mr. Negton." "That its great fun to torment t Nearl , worth therowehke&negald7 THIS FORMIDABLE PEST. h� fields. The worms army law being one of those rare people who mind Geo smiled ; indeed. he almost Pyr man w11b--" y MADE OF 8QNI18.: it' Homewar o'er the fr rant blossoms their•own business ; and George bad fail- laugh Well it ie Mrs. Witt, George paused. dl �d as the Rev. Da Samuel Lockwood oL ,P�,' gel'. he said, tailing lain lint. " But mmem- To the a er remembers bare, , r,;, an so low as to be almost grateful for ba 1„ "Who what T' said Laura, .with de- Where Melinda waits to 'greet them It Invades 8oathwestern New Work State, Freehold, N.J., has pointed out, each , T the colourless impartiality with �vbic� •What 9" said Neaera, who was still Plorable weakaaeslr. Fora milking 'Heath the stars. and we Betteve Is Now In southern band having been bred in its awn idiot, r Values your good opinion very high- outarlo-The moth caught et work and disneminati a t. he bore himself towards the quarrel be •.miling and cordial, but rather less at ly,„ ng thence. The various t her ease than before. One b one this reach' the brooklet; Egg -faring -Stories About marched or bands, s rea out, oo a together and 1,, . tween his musters. ., .IN P. p y o on after food. The ba re lost in ' A cat clay tell stale, though he George 1n the gloaming cool acrd clear, the drmr. g R h� lr' George took the note. " Mr. Gerald ,.ear none•„ 8e permitted himself to high While the drink the limpid water, the great army formed, hit a boon here, TimmsP" it'• A faint twitohin betrayed Not a sound salutes my ear; The news despatches have brought marches an as ane great erg rogation ,.'f,_ "He looked in for lettere, sir; but "If it t` do wawaPin, I will tell itae f abort the corners o Laura's But anon the old herd gently word that the worms are causing ruin g wherever it trave a. It ie },, ago devastatin f' moi' You Witt." Pretty a ouwant to I will look Love and reverence compels, in the cultivated fields o1 western and r�iseto theresatynn fitted then, which gives went away directly on hearing You were Y Good-bye, Mrs. 1" "Good-bye. Please don't have poor a, ap, said George smile, And its ue'er!ingot enhe eusic southwestern New York about North their appearance all ohat f a sudden. The The i � hbr+e' Bob arrested. He didn't steal the boots "You're very foplish," said Aura; Tonawanda, in the Hudson River coun- travelling in lar1.ge armies is said to be ,t4' • Timms stated this fact as it It were in -.oh, the shoes, at any rate." and George knew that this expression abnormal, and to be done only when, '' l�1 the ordinal y xPce p Barefoot boy alone remembers ties in the neighborhood of Po y a ;_,. y way of friendly inter- Nara i prise al eady..r °n a lady's lips is not always one of Far away from scenes of yore sic and Newburgh, and on Lon Island, the food auppl of any spot is exhausted. n disapproval. iris g ,y ll eourige, and withdrew. of bewilderment. "I really don't un- � $ow the herd came through the clover destroying, as one tel When the ravelling is ante be un, ,.i "Well, I am— I" exclaimed Geoage am, indeed." said he, "to spend B the insects hunted o'er • egram said, thou- however, when the army is form it 4 derstand you. But I'm lad we're inert Y :' enemies an longer. m Irma in a vain pursuit'' And lull many a rations ioture� bushels of grain every hour, leo late for the farmer on whose land as ,�z _du Gea d y ted, Of Neaera t" P p it Is to save bis crops. t only The note was addressed in the hand- George departed, but Neaera sat down "No. not of Neaera." With its colors bright and warm and, according to another, making away b rep And i is neigh- ` ,; on the and gazed into the fire. Pre- , Memory paints with magic brushes with fifteen acres of Y Birch and active rs. that his neigh- ., rug g "I should never,' said Laura, demure- g rye within twen- b writing he now trnew very well, the sent! Bob came to dock after the for- Of the ever rea�ured farm. ben can save theirs• From a story #, v- y ly, "have referred to Miss Bourne, if t ty-four hours alter they were first no- told of one m' rntion•of the worms in .. a Handwriting of the Bournemouth char- gotten milk. He rubbed himself right you hadn't, but err► you have- Illinois, it would ahem to be actor. along Neaera's elbow, be inning from `I didn't." Here the farm house love -encircled, tieed in the patch. The reports speak possible to �. ser his nose, down to the ens of what he There a sainted n+other's face ; of the "arrival " of the worms, and of tell in advance, after an army was once' Dear Mr. Netgtau, d Presumably George explained whom located, when ill was likely to mare '"M�p :'`� ;',r- called his tail. $ere a mound and there a cradle, their " first a w ''*' " I shall be alone at five o'clock to- " Ah, Bob," said Neaera, "what he did refer to, and apparentlq the ea- Baby's features dui can trace; ppearanc%" and go on to on. The army referred to was under ,�•' I • lavation took the rest of dinner- y tell of the havoc that is the immediate observation in a wheat field when there a' day. Will you come and see met You want? Milk, dear? 'Good for evil, ' pg And to finish off the picture consequence, but in this the reporters g great shaking of heads of the• 'M line, And as the ladies went upstairs, P began a y milk for—"' g patted Laura's shoal- Wich of golden moments tells, p worms ere though they were- unseat'. It N '�' Yours sincerely, Mrs. Pocklin ton Bob purred and capered. Neaera gave der with an a r Single file across the meadow are wrong, for the worms have been z .w,.` 111. " Neaera Witt•" him"his milk, and stood looking at him. PP oving fan. Come the bearers of the bells. prasont with them ri ht al was noted that the heads were moved , ' ` "ran must'do m a lady sake You," "How would you like to be drowned, "There's a good child I It shows g along, only horizontally. Then the worms took up y breedin to be agreeable to people you their march, L .It ."1" said Gea e, "even if she does steal dear P" she asked. IF At the window in the twilight the farmers were not watchful of them, Big first to a field o NN�� George, dislike.' a It ;s one of the unfortunate Features blue grass. )Prom the grass field they ai;iY v Whose, and you have mentioned it. Hare The unconscious Bob lapped on. Laura blushed *tittle, but answered With the winds but help asleep, tressed a travelled road to a Dorn field a" Neaera stamped her foot. "Ile shan'tl dutifully,I aur glad ou are Sits the bo who drove the cattle of the army worm's warfare upon the that wan partly loiighed over. They " 3 goeaJ What's she, lip to now, I wLn- He shan't I" abs eaolaimed. "Not an mammaMost likely�ahe did not imd- Thro' the o[over red and deep; farmers that until the wonderful ate ev bit of t�e oorrti for the flint . %: der?" inch 1 'rNot an inch I" And he calls from out the lost years Pro- - pass on Mrs. Pocklington. She ter- lificacy of his kind has sent forth my- ten °T fifteen rows on the ploughed, Neaera, arrayed in the elaborate care- Bob finished his milk and looked up, tainly did not on herself. Many a scene that boars a charm, ground, but little on the unploughed +� " No, dear, you shan't be drowned. And his thou ground.y: I.`.. leanness of a tea own, received him, not George found himself left next to ghts go fl ing backward riads of the destroyers into the grain �i r $ Dan't be afraid•" Sidmouth Vane. To a boyhood on the farm. fields the warm remains unnoticed, al- The Bev. Dr. Lockwood, telling z+'r in the draxing�raoom, but in her awn Aa Bab lutew nothing about drown- "Hallo, Newtan t" said that young visitation of the worms in Monet utb k: " , snuggery. Tea was on the table ; there ing, and only meant that he wanted gentleman, with his usual freedom. Dom he smile P a sound that pleases though present all the time, Aa soar roust N.J., s : "The arm �" r was a bright little fire, and a aomno- more milk, he showed no gratitude for I Seems to stir the ma lea now, as withered splotches in a grass plot Y' says: y had just oclred her up yet 4" A made Dom lete havoc of a clover field. : I11, - g his reprieve. Indeed, sae' there wan George said Mie Witt wan still at And a beam of golden sunlight or denuded hummocks of a rain patch y P red, from a `�} lent old cat snoozed on the hearth -rug• be no more milk, he g Pa The were b gg's laid in a low- 11 - poin eddy turned large. Vane had been his fa and For a moment 'gilds his brow; draw attention to its activeness, the lying, last field, adjoining. xt, year's rye j ,f,., The whole air was redolent o1 what ad- his back, and bean to "vas)al his face. George felt he was entitled to � take it Past asleep J but still in dreamland, After but partial! , �. vertisements called a "refined home," out of him in after life whenever he, Under Recollection's spells, multitudes of the destroyer are beyond this old field it wasabianngd hedgrass for inhis M� *" could. He is 'wading through the clover the farmer's power to nope with and more succulent and tender clover and "" w . and Neasra'e manner indicated an al- CHAPTER VIII• "Wish you would," continued Mr. To the music of the bells. ruined crops are inevitable, The stories grass in the next field. • , . The field i meat esthetic desire to be friendly, " I never heard anything so absurd in Vane, "That ass of a cousin of yours was coin letelp denuded; not a spear of i kd Y g of the African ants that travel in droves Ys checked only by the self-respecting fear all my life," said Mr. Blodwell, with em- would tilt her, and I would wait out- f P • r across ions of the Dark Continent, gra or eaP ° clover escaped the invad- v. , of a rude rebuff to her advanoea phoria. side Ho�laway or Clerkenwell, or where- GROWING AND FEEDING CATTLE ers. Nothingbut naked clover stalks I A ` } "It is really kind of you to tonsil," Geor had just informed him of the ever they ut 'em, and receive her syn- This is an a sometimes covering the ground to a with em e.:I treaty pp age of specialization and it pty heads remained. . A tween himself and Neaera. He ppaathetical vl --hot breakfast, brass band, depth of several inches as they pile up- low but distinct and unpleasant I '. she said, " to consent to a parley:' haul told Iris tale with some em>c+rrass- first cigar for six months, and all that, is, speaking generally, neither possible 'r,- " The beaten side alwhys consents to ment. It is so difficult to make le don't You know, like one bf those Irish nor desirable to run counter to its °II each other in the eagerness of their CRINKLING SOUND ''' 't'2 poop fellows." progress, devouringeverything organic accompanied the feed ., a .a a parley," answered George, taking the who were not present understand how tendencies. Business i9 divided and suby g " As if actuated by ane h +;-.. an interview came to take the course it "roti lions no email pre udices." in their th, even to the ides, the i r•,,, did, "Not much. A til like that, plus divided into special lines, and by Har- whole army made straight for a wheat P ,My,, . seat she indicated She was half sit- j pa Point ofP I'll B darning of an elephant, only his bones field stress the ,y ,., ting, half lying on a sofa when he came '• she seemed to think it all right," an income like that, mi ht steal all rowing the draft men acquire special highway. The plough. ' in, and resumed her position after greet- George said weakly. Northampton for what I care. Going skill with which one seeks to combine as carefully cleaned as a naturalist ing of a trench on the far side of the 1. fir`' Do you suppose on can shut taird if would have them,find almost their eoun- road intercepted the mhrch. Two men ,n., ins him pie's mouths rap that way ?" ! Yes; there's am 'At Home' on, isn't many of these can hardly compete on with spades cut a clean, perpendicular � Y terparts in the reports of the ravages _ , " No, no," she said quickly ; " that's " There are 'other ways," remarked there T" equal terms. The Homestead believes °� face on the aide of the furrow next the �s ° where it's hard -when you're, beaten. G "Yes, so I'm told. I shouldn't of the army worms. The worms pais wheat and a series of little itfalLs in �,'W,';' y George, grimly, for his tamper began go, i1 that it can be carried too far, and there P' � 1' - But do you consider yourself beaten P" to, g°• I Were You.., are indications that in the cattle burl- one upon another to cross streams or the trench -at intervals of *boat fifty „11 There ora," assented IiZr, Blodwel! Why the devil not P" slippery logs, they climb up and down feet. This completed the trap. The •;; " Up to now, certainly." "and in these days, if you use them, "Gerald's o Hess there has been too much die sl- caterpillars, wearied with useless efforts 1 ging to be there -told me tion to separate tree trunks, instead of going around climb the etre i t , " And you really are not convinced I" it's five pounds or a month, and a vast s°•" p rate the growing of stock straight aide of the trench, them, and in their voracious marches would crawl ale until they fell mta + she asked, Dyeing Slim with a Iaok of increase of slip into the bargain. "Really, Van', you're very kind. We cattle and feeding of finished steers. ng candid a 1 to his better nature. What does Gerald say P" shan't fight." g they the little pits. D7jriads of ants beset l?• peso There are reasons why farmers should them, sucking out their Gerald? Oh, I don't know. I "I 'don't know about that. He's ng juices, which i•;. " >' " It is your fault, Mrs. Witt." g grow, one year with another, the calves DENUDE W$OLE FARMS with the heat of the sun aoon dest ed ; c' :I. polo Mrs. Witt cosi manage him." simply mad they need far feeding, and should not of v them. The cannot endure sural' brtoyut My fault P" Do you P I doubt it. Gerald isn't •AAgvthing aew.I' g, egetab b life. Though present at i6 b •, " Yoe Why are you so hard to for- over easy to manage. Think of the Yer ; Oe told me you'd been trying grow stockers for sale. We are aware are distinc ly night feeders. If .in- t 8" George thought there was no ition You leave him in I" to that dsa�vin upon the limited ex all times, far the most part of the time terru ted their march to the new feed- ^x, Pos y aqu I Mrs. Witt behind his back, e� p per- P ?tz harm in utttng it in a pleasant way. He believes in her." and he mleaat to have it out with ience of single years one can they do no appreciable harm, and their in rounds would have bean completed a.-. z, , prove al- g g P -11"Ah, w wan Miss -now is it Game ere the sun was well u i "Yes but he won't be content unless you.,' most anything with respect to the re- visitations when they lay waste the p." .11 ic'F, or GasnewP-so head to forget T" other people do. Of course they'll ser "Well," said George "I won't run. lative profitableness of. these two halves farms are at irr One swarm of worms, ain from a `"' 1. It is or rather was, Game. And I Y' y } He irregular and unpredict- #ma g ;f 11;,.. - she squared you." Come al of cattle prorluction. Taking the ea- ed intervals, wheat field to an oat field, crossed a 1�1�upgoee she was hard to forget for the silence of the last ear nothin The onl a roach to foretell' ti>ean award• of timoth and red clover and "'lt as me ruisoa as ou-would be " nm t ezclnimed George, in- The guea were already pouring in, p Y d Pays Y pp ing y11 •. y di? and amon the first George encount- but growing stock cattle, and it does lies in the observation that the plague took off everything clean, even straw - ix. I4,�„� "And what is tivatP” U my seal, I'm not sura she ered was Mr, Dennis P Y i g y herr lents and the e' ter', Espion, as over- not a to eed at all. Taki❑ the ea- swarms usual! come in seasons- Y green barrios, and w " TY you ask my cousin, no doubt he h strained as ever. Espion knew that perience of some other year when feed springs and summers -following dry the farmers' pest," the ragweed, Dr. will tell you," "Of oorunye you can say what you George was aware of his position on was short and cattle plenty, is is just years. It is only about forty gears Lockwood says. He speaks also of a x: Neaem smiled. please sir. From you I can't resent rt." the Bull's-eye. as easy to show that it does not pay since naturalists began to study the field left, after harvest, naked except I "'What more can I do P" she asked. for stubble after the ants had been ,t ` "Came, don't be huffy. Bright ayes "Ah, how ,are you, Nestor P" he said, to grave cattle at all, and that it is warms, although. their destructive " Your people didn't know me. I leave have their effect on everybody. By the holding out his hand. cheaper and more profitable to buy marches were known a hundred years over it. produced a Letter showing I was some wa have you seen Isabel Bourne late George looked at it for a moment, and stockers to feed, This The arm that ate u t *` where alas." ly No." y then support life and youx kind at- shed ave beca�ttle.orIn some thth about as ellyeach ra the mall n as fodies l theirted nlif ehiatory--the most re infor- as told of above, of into adfort care ,; ' ? "Excuse metook wheat field. before its march was endec ", " Well, well, then a of a dotter.' and devastated it in seven da pe t �rr-port� copy "Heard from her P tendons, ,spion." - finished cattle are high and the stock- of it being obtained in the great worm days. S ak• 1', " What i - to be a oop�' " She sent me a message through I. I well, you know, we can't hate ors are almost given away: There are year of 1861 -and it was only after ob- ing of the swarm at this work, Dr.Lock• t ,M•:', "Haw glad I am I'm not v✓gerJ Tomo,y M Ice••• it --a niatter of public interest. L g people so man rice char- servation of the visitation of 1881 that w'� says: #'. {; Y p *mon ourp } It asoma make people so suspicious." Is he in her confidence P" hope you see our position—" era that those changes rattle them and knowledge sufficient to setae all die- " The squirming mass and the crink- 1, ' It's a gt^eat pity you didn't keep •' Apparently• The effect of It wag, Yee". said George, y from one branch to pubes was attained. It was with great ling sound of this feeding were especi- nal she ge, urbanely ; Il they get awn da the origi that a didn't want to see me till I faut vivre." other with rapidity that only enables glee that entbmologists,after much toil, ally rep ulsive. But few red to enter `' �. Neaera said nothing. Perhaps she did had come tom aeuses," "I don't suppose the field. In truth strong M•r s y ppose you value our opin- them to miss a profit every year. The traced the gray or brown, yellowish- men turned .1 iiot ugz�e In those words?" ion, but—" thin that each farmer wants to do is streaked Caterpillars from the s of pale from nausea, so loathsome was the r .s But`I"auppcec on didn't send for "These were Tommy's Words.,- "Oh Yens; I value it at a n to cultivate level-headedness as well a night-flyingmoth. It was not until sight. It really seemed that naturewas yff me to argue about the mattes t" penny- - rg "Then relations are strained?" every evening." as crops, and to develop steadiness of 1876 that the eggs and the mode of smitten with a plague of crawling ver11 * " Na I (lent for you to propose peace Mira Bourne is the beat of "I was Din to da purpose mil►•" ' d', Mr Nestce, I' am so wen of fighting. judo g g Y p pose as well as his live stock. With oviposition were known. The elusive fe- This a divided after the wheat ' , rt' >B m8• wlajom she wishes to see." "Beep ii, my dear fallow. What you respect to cattle he can do this mal© moth from which comes the army army rs,1 11 r•., Wh will you make me fight?" y growing y year as nearly worm -or Leumnia unipuncta, order Le- field was despoiled, one of the divisions - - . y Quote eo," said Mr. Blodwell, sheer- say has market value -to the extent b ro�rin aver `7'. "It's not for my pleasure," said fully. "At present she seems to wish I have mentioned." as possible, just a•s many animaL9 as idoptera, family Noctuidoe, as it is going into a timothy field and the oth- . '. George• to see Myles. Well, well, George, you'll "My dear Neston, may I—" be needs and no more, havin no stock- known scientifically --offered, when it er marching across to a cornfield. When � " Fear whose then ?'• she asked„stretch- have to come to My feed was found, a fascinating stud in its these fields bad been ruined the worms ;, fig., your knees a last.” "Consider this an interview P us ere le sell and none to buy y disappeared- " the neighbors said, What ' :a;_ •.� , ing out her arms with a gesture of en- "Mrs. Witt doesn't require It." dear ion, certain! Make an use is pleat stock cattle will be g bee n,r treat ' Cannot we ser no more about �p Y• Y Y quite ter- functions and habits. It boa n de p�� g Y• Y "Gerald will." of this communication you please. Good fain to be relatively hi h as compared scribed n an owlet -moth, not lase be- they did was to go down into the ;< it P" "Gerald be— But I've never told night." with finished steers; wfien very abun- cause of its nocturnal prowlings than ground to assume the pupa state. The lllt Jr "With all my heart." you of my fresh evidence." Geor e strolled awn "Su ore I dant, as it is now, the margin will pro- because of the wisdom with which it moth as well as the larva hibernates, ?.. S, `' , " And you will admit you were " Oh, you're mad J What's in the wind was rather rude " ha said toimaelt. habit' be obliterated entirely. On P he selects the plaong far depositing its eggs. and it is thought that also the moth ,,5�'• arangP" now U. "But, hang it, must have earned other band when feed grows searoe, It has all the gripping power when it r Y hibernate in a chrysalis farm. The Is""'k, „ That is saying' more about it." Five minutes later George flung him- that fellow fifty pounds l" It is the finished rodQot that is larval life lasts from fifteen dap�M -g' You cannot en t p high come to a lace of grass that suite it, 9._.. Joy he position you self angrily out of Mr. Blodwell's chain- (Ifo, be Continued.) and the stock cattle is almost given and it has all the pertinacity with which five weeks, are in bers, leaving that gentleman purple and away. The man who rows his own summer visitors to Jersey are familiar, Dr. Lockwood thinks that 11 i,.. I confess that." palpitating with laughter, as he entl b lips, however, and Leede them will in the Hackensack "Mr. Newton, do you eves think it's ra-echoed, g q PP mosquito, and it is THEY SbIILL THE FOOD -,"!r likely to make a steady, moderate *mail wonder that soma of the moat which the seek when their arm for• , - - posatble you are wrong. But no, never "The cat I Go to the jury on the ofitevery year. When the first con- notable performances of the moth's off- y y ?;, mind. Will ,on ggree just to drop cat, George, my bog 1' TE%AS'3 SIG HO(3. tion exists be makes it off the stock- ria )lave taken lace in that tom- begins. 11 it P" sP g P i here is no turn back to this sin- Y.s •;. • To George in his hour of adversity, Texas lays claim to the biggest hog ers; when the second occurs be makes manwealth. gular worm," she says again, and he ", "Heartily, But there's the Bull's- Mrs. Pocklington was as a tour of ever raised in the United Staten The it off the feeding. What we mean by The moth conceals itself in the day- ins+,ances an army which finding a 7` @`e 'lye•" stmngth. She said that the Nestons this is that when a man has a good time., and ins to flq as dusk settles Oh, bother the Bull's I I'll go might squabble among themselves as hog weighs 1,480 pounds, and is 8 feet g stream in its way crowded forwar un• ,ui' B q ng grain and bluegrass farm, it cattle down. It fli or walka about among til a compacted mass was urged on- . and see the editor," said Neaera. much as they liked ; it was no business 3 inches long., Jae measures 6 feet production from start to finish be con- the grasses of young shoots, or the to the water to serve as a living Pon- • /:z ;.,a' "He's a stern man, Mrs. Witt." of her. As for the affair getting into around the neck, 8 feet around the bod sidered as an entire, indivisible opera- stubble of a field, and finds a spot �,n, over which the army passed and ;; He won't be so hard to deal with as the Qapers, her visiting -list Would suffer Y' tion, some money can be made; but if where the growth is thick, and it is took Possession of the new foraging { `, you. There, that's settled. Hurrah I eonaidembly if she cut out evorybu�dyy and stands 4 feat 1 inch High. His it is cut in two it becomes a sort of shady in which to lay its eggs, ser sc� round,• ix you shake hands, Mr. Neston?" who was wrongly, or she added' aign;ti- fent aro as largo as those of a common 'gamble' as to whether the profitable curio for the larvae shelter and a B all means cantly, rightly abused in the P g gAmong the worms' enemies are sever- ")11 s "+ ��yita a thief 9" papers. I ox, and the leg bone larger than that end of the transaction has been select- handy rood supply. It is of a cinnamon al para itic on ea. ''I'1 1'1N' George Neston, might be, mistaken but ed for the particular year. color, but spven�ighths of an inch long A thin til l< e '' of the lar est steer. He is Poland China erg ., uniform but not close, sem: " With you, thief or no thief. And I hs was an honest young man, and for' g In growing stock cattle for one's in Forty, with a one and thme-Stuarters makes conditions harder for the worms. mast tell you you are very—" her port she thought hon an rtgreeable and red Jersey• He eats Dorn like an own feedin the breeding becomes of of an inch spread of win n each r ,'. I'll' What 9" oa; takes the who!© ear in his mouth g P g Farmers are warners by Dr. Lockwood one -anyhow, a great deal too good for even more rnportance than when they front wing is a double spot of wb1te. to look early in lti[aY for th++ caterpil- �" "Well, above small resentments." that inai id child, Isabel Bourne, If at once and eats the cob as well as the aro Brawn to sell ere stockers. What The moth is economical sometimes in dors' paint of origination -the thick epota "Oh, what does It matter? Suppose anybody didn't like meeting him at her corn, eating from forty to fifty ears at we do mean is that when stackers are the matter of glue. Whenever thea s "1"i ;s„,1�1': g B $g o€:' grass or grain and in dam places I did take the boots?,' house, they could stay away. Poor a time. There seems to be no surplas a high price second rate stuff will gen- are deposited on a leaf or grass blade in meadows and rain fields. i A ial- "11' "6hoes” sold George. Laura Pocklington protested that she flesh on him and physicians who have erally command relatively- more money they are concealed bq ly if the winter ie mild and the tri 'N•' ' Neaera buret into a laugh. " You are bated and despised George, but yet examined the hog say he can easily be than the best. But when a farmer in- sspp n1gI. % fiery accurate." warm after a wet year a watch ahauld ° F couldn't stay avray. made to reach 2,200 pounds. The pre- tends to feed them himself it is Dal PASTING> THE SiDES And you are very inaccurate, Mrs Then, dear," said Mrs. Pockli sent owner, T. Rat' an Y be kept for the moths and worms. If f. Witt," for tarty ng- , tg Paid $2b0 for the best that he can feed to the beat together around them, but if they are a breeding spot is found the grays or r': y, 'you can staa.y in the nur- the b and has been offered $1,500ror advantage. e. Really good stock cattle Lhhru4 beneath the sheath and stalk grain may he cut out and Peri to the ' " I afield always be amused when i eery•" him. Eie has a Pira polity on the ani are and for a long time have been (o[ grain) or otherwise naturally con- u t meet you. I shall know you have your It's too bad i" exclaimed Laura. " A mat for $5,000. No other hog, it is said, stock. g the worms feeding hatched the M Y... d, qui�e scares. The carloads that uses} Ceale,d, the gummy fluid is often very crinkling sound of the fending will di- ,,., :, band on your watch." man who says such thin; s Isn't fit ever reached such tremendous propor- to be picked up a decade ago at an a�a rsely used, and sometimes not at , • "Oh, yes. I retract nothing." Mia. Pocklin ton �hooggber hAad gen- tions.% We ea g Y rest the searcher in the at.illnega of , g:' g k pest to learn soon that be small shipping point cannot bo picked all•" evening or early morning. ,,;�+. Then it is peace?" tlf. Mr. Pocklington's Radical prinoi- ]lois been burned. up in that way any longer. They are The worm batch in a week or ten Burning over fields in the fall, in- t's: Yes.,. es extended no morn to his household _ bought now by, twos and threes, and days. Like their progenitor, theq like sal of allowing stubble and stacks to ,;f, Neaera sat up and gave him bar )nand., than to his business. command a,= that leaves no mar- the night better than the day, and do "1. remain oo them, is also advised, erg e and the peace was ratified. But (t so "Laura, dear," she said, in pained CON6DIENCE MONEY. gin for the feeder, even with our cheap their work usually after dusk or before burning over a field as tate in the y' chanced that Neaera'g sudden movement tones, "Ido so dislike argument." food. What the farmers of the cdittle dawn. :;n>'•,, roused the cat. He yawned and got up. So George went to dinner at Mrs. A merchant in Biddeford Me., a few regions ought to do is to give to their The favorite " nest " for the eg w is spring as possible. It is said that a 4' "' arohi his book, and d in his slaws Pock) d a a o received a letter nclos' g field is free from worms arcordin.q as ,14.` ng igg' g ington's, and tbb.t lady, remorse- aP $ mg $1 herds of breeding cattle something of in wild or tame grass or Qrain, along it is free from stubble and, old straw_, r: Into the hearth -rug. less . tal discipline, sent Laura and a a eat of paper, on which the word the same attention that the breeder "the inner base of terminal blades, `' �rsn p A rocs may walk doll i❑ his lots and # h.' "Bob," said Neaera, "don't spoil the dawn to dinner with him; and, as "Conscience" was written. This calls of breeding cattle gives to his, with, where the are pet doubled, or between pe y y *i eve hod to mind an old story g g Y not sea that the worms are there until a i b,,' rug everybody known, there is nothing more ry of a thief who of course, a closer confinement of his the stalk and its sun,>•unding sheath." the rasa lot eta bare in patches. r� 7 George's attention was directed to the pleasing d interesting than a pret- broke into *.store in Skowhegan sen- attention to strictly useful points. This They am also, however, placed in crevr Entomologist Thomas of Illiuoie failed r animal, and, as he looked at it, he start- ty girl int dignified pet. George an,��'ooy- erial gears ago, and secured a good gum Involves careful selection of dame and ices on the side of a award cut or brok- , to see them in his own tack yard, al- :I, . ed. Bob's ebange of posture had ra ed himself. It was a 1 tine of money from the cash drawer. A few the use of real! first-class beef bulls. en or between roots. The are found• M' v ed a Serious deficiency: he had no since he had flitted; but mein Y though he was looking for them until IIy now, months aftex^ward the merchant retain- As tt5 broad, that Is a vsstion of taste in the told at the bn P and junction of the bare d a, q patchAg fol him that they ,ur ;ter !, or the uicrelgt a'pa: for a tail. considerin Isabel's c"mduet,'he Yelt at ed a letter in whiOtn was a $10 and the somewhat, and of the food, conditions, ternrinal stalks, err..+ in the natural curl rk g were there and at work. It was certainly an odcoineidenae, perfect liberty to conduct himself erg followiIIg note: "I stoic $78 from care, etc., with which the owner is like- of a grec+n leaf or the unnatural curl of ,e perhapps nothing more, but a very odd seemed to him good, Laura was an old your motley drawer. Remorse gnaws at ly to be able to surround them. Bat a withered one. TbA moths 'seek the Brahma once askew of Form, "Who ! '14,colndideuoe that Geotge should have seen friend, and George determined to see my cons8ience. When remorse gnaws when the character of the .election I. rankest tufts of grass or grain such as is st.roriger t hnn Cbnuf" She replied in the court-y4rfi at Pepktoa gaol no how imeapable. her urrath was. again I will sand you some more." determined upon, the selection itself grow where tbA droppings of cattle or "Addre9q."-Tlugo. t HAD* .n, '% �"=,� I . ,, „ M ::., �•Y'"., ,:,. n .err i.-•., 1. 9 .. ... ... • .. .V ....,F.. ... 1. r'4, ....:.. .R.,,. y i .'Y , a. .. Al , • 0 • „i ...n nI ....e ..& I 19 ", , " ti I 11-1 a1 b.r • ^ r..bP.,,w.%. e44«,er,aii.:'.A?".ar'w...,3dh kL�llMiMrniiYl�ii r. ,., I a J �'w,,,. S6.,. s P' ._ ..-_�_ r ......,.. ., a �It..0 ..46i�u a ...-. • ..:.J"; .., . , s Y .. _��