The Gleaner . eceipt ofthe following: Signal Mt. AiryWorld, Torch (Doylestown H. S.),Tuskegee Student, H. A. S. H. S. Life, The Student (Ports-mouth, Va.), Blue and Gray Instead of wasting expensive fer-tilizer for your garden, use someN. F. S. text-books, which will kindly provide youwith in abundance. Do not attempt to raise bread-fruit from cauliflower. If you are troubled by the gypsymoth, these suggestions kindly of-fered by Miss Borden will probablyhelp you. First, climb the treewhere he resides and carefully .puthim in your hip-pocket; then fallheavily to the groun


The Gleaner . eceipt ofthe following: Signal Mt. AiryWorld, Torch (Doylestown H. S.),Tuskegee Student, H. A. S. H. S. Life, The Student (Ports-mouth, Va.), Blue and Gray Instead of wasting expensive fer-tilizer for your garden, use someN. F. S. text-books, which will kindly provide youwith in abundance. Do not attempt to raise bread-fruit from cauliflower. If you are troubled by the gypsymoth, these suggestions kindly of-fered by Miss Borden will probablyhelp you. First, climb the treewhere he resides and carefully .puthim in your hip-pocket; then fallheavily to the ground, landing onyour back in such a manner a_s todisfigure the moth permanently. Ifhe survives, circulate stories con-cerning gypsies generally and hewill leave of his own accord. (Friends Central), The Review,Hilltop, Woodbine H. S. The Torch : Your first appear-ance has made a good impression. Hilltop: Your Literae Onlya Rookie. makes many of us de-sirous of swatting the pill for bigleague teams. 10 THE GLEANER. /. MILLER, Editor THE IMPORTANCE OF BIOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE. For a number of years biologistshave been trying to convince thegeneral public, and especially thefarmer, that a knowledge of biologyin its various branches is essentialto successful agriculture. Intelligent men and women, aswell as the advanced scholar andscientist, are of the opinion thatthe science of biology should begiven a great deal more attentionthan it has received heretofore, andare continually urging that inschools like ours biological subjectsshould be made the main featureof instruction, and presented in athorough, painstaking and interest-ing manner, with due regard for itsimportance, instead of in the half-contemptuous way in which it isnow so often barely tolerated. Bot-any (which teaches us the funda-mental principles of the plant lifeand gives the young agriculturista knowledge of plant evolution,structure, physiology, food re-quirements, etc., necessary to thegrowing of good crops, upon which


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