THE FARMERS NEW FOE
The Farmers' New Foe r-fiHF. European corn borer, which, in 19^r», 1 reached the general longitude of Cleveland in Ohio and Western Ontario, continued its westward inarch, during 1926, to...
...It's been raining for three hours, and you've dared to tramp on my carpet...
...This is proved in an interesting way on Lake Erie...
...His pal, who kept watch outside, noticed a tear glisten in his eyes...
...All Iowa gave Benton for $50,000 worth of birds was $300, but now there are so many pheasants in Iowa that the farmers of 13 counties petitioned for a shooting season, the birds having become something of a pest to the crops...
...It has one...
...NIGGER-TOE GROWS ON BEAUTIFUL TREE THE "nigger toe," or Brazil nut, which gets onto tho average table about Christmas time, grows on what is described as the most beautiful tree in South America...
...The corn borer arrived in New England only eight or ten years ago and naturalists fear that it will prove the most disastrous pest that ever invaded the country...
...Suddenly the burglar stiffened...
...The ice forms and fidds to a thickness of 10 to ISO feet during the winter, and lies in great fields...
...Everything in life has...
...Go downstairs and take off those shoes...
...European corn borer, which, in 19^r», 1 reached the general longitude of Cleveland in Ohio and Western Ontario, continued its westward inarch, during 1926, to northeastern Indiana and as far west in Michigan as Kalamazoo...
...The big outside shell is thick and tough and you have lo use a sledge hammer to break it open...
...It's just like home...
...but scores of agents of the agricultural department are scouring Europe in search of the borer's natural enemy...
...If the ice is hugging the south shore, a very moderate south wind will drive a field, miles wide and miles long and weighing millions of tons, clear out of sight towards the north shore in a very few hours...
...HOW SPRINGS FEED WATER TO BEAVKK LODGE LAKE BEAVER LODGE LAKE is a shallow body in the mountains not far from Denver...
...laughter...
...Water is safety to the beaver...
...I can't rob that place, Sam," murmured the burglar...
...FAMILY FIRESIDE FIN THE burglar had entered the house as quietly as possible, but his shoes were not rubber-soled and they made a certain amount of noise...
...The entrance to the lodge was, of course, through the bottom of the basin...
...LAKE ERIE IS SELDOM FROZEN OVER WE puny humans buck any wind except a tornado, but the fact remains that the steadily blowing wind is irresistible...
...If you don't take off your shoes when yoa come into this house there's going to be trouble...
...The destruction in western Ontario the past summer was almost complete: not 10 per cent of a crop was harvested...
...The third spring was 700 feet distant and they connected that with the basin by a canal...
...IOWA BECOMES THE HOME OF PHEASANTS SOME years ago, Iowa decided that she wanted to be a pheasant state and a contract was made with one William Benton to take all he could raise Bill raised 20,000, and a few days before delivery, a tornado hit the pen and scattered the birds...
...This lake rarely freezes over the GO miles from shore to shore...
...The burglar crept downstairs and out of the house without a word...
...Now and then it goes dry...
...Then they dug a basin around the lodge that took in a second spring 40 feet away...
...the entrance to his house is by way of it and through it no beast of prey dare venture...
...It is now bordering on the famous com belt and all indications are'that the middle-west farmer will have to quit cussing his surplus crop and cuss because he has no cTop at all...
...There are three springs in the lake and the beavers built their lodge close to one of them...
...No insecticide has yet been discovered that will touch it...
...Then, after a shift, the stronger north wind will drive H back in half the time...
...Thus the three springs flowed their trickle into the basin and kept it full, no matter if the rest of the lake dried up...
...They grow much like the chestnut, with an outside shell as big as a man's head but containing a score or more of the individual nuts...
...Ho heard a woman's voice...
Vol. 19 • June 1927 • No. 6
