Farmers can not expect to have a con
stant, steady improvement in their crops
unless they pay especial care to selecting
their own seed and having it well presetv
ed in some dry, weli-ventila.ed place,
where there is no danger from decay or
mold. By such a pirn of operation the
farmer knows just what to depend oa,
and there is not 4 hen pay liability of hav
ing 4 o suffer severe los es by hating in
ferior seeds passed off on him. which is
done more or less eve y year.
It is not only safer, oat also more eco
nomical, to save and test your own ssed,
a* the expense is" always quite large in
proportion to the amount of seed ob
tained when bought.
Using Poison for Insects.
The following sensible remarks are
from the pen of Mr. John J. Thomas, the
veteran horticultural editor of the Coun
try Gentleman:
’The use of Paris green for ire pot., o
beetle and London purple for the cotlFug
moth, is alwajs dangerous nn'e doe
caution is employed by the oie r ! >.
Every year somebody has bee,! po o,ec.
In one case the operator c. .e : e ’y r’
lowed the dust to rise so as to bo b.e vi
ed; in another it was freely r,; id r r.
