. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. THE NEW FARMER The "rube" has been succeeded by the "; There's as much difterence between the "rube" and "agriculturist" as between corn and cucumbers. The modern farmer is a business man, a student, and a pro- gressionist. The result is a great change in cul- tural methods. Mould-boa r d plows and drag cultivators are being replaced by "C u t a w a y" tools. Farmers now realize that cultivation is not merely a matter of softening the ground. Thor- ough, frequent cultivation stirs the soil, lets in I
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. THE NEW FARMER The "rube" has been succeeded by the "; There's as much difterence between the "rube" and "agriculturist" as between corn and cucumbers. The modern farmer is a business man, a student, and a pro- gressionist. The result is a great change in cul- tural methods. Mould-boa r d plows and drag cultivators are being replaced by "C u t a w a y" tools. Farmers now realize that cultivation is not merely a matter of softening the ground. Thor- ough, frequent cultivation stirs the soil, lets in IntenSi9b air and sunshine and new life, killing foul vegetation. "Cutaway" tools effect perfect sub-soil connections: save time and labor: increase crops 25% to 50%. Send postal tn-day to The Cuta way Harrow Co., Higganum, Conn., for new booklet "INTENSIVE CULTI- ; It's free. Adv. CONTROL OF THE CODLING MOTH IN CALIFORNIA BY W. H. VOLCK, HORTICULTURAL COMMISSIONER, WATSONVILLE, CALIFORNIA of loss would have to be added, which is $1,000,000. To save this $1,000,000 California orchardists use about $35,000 worth of arsenate of lead, and it costs something like $30,000 to put it on the trees. This makes the total cost of spraying for the codling moth some $55,000. Then it is evident that the rather large sum of $945,000 is saved to the growers of the state by the use of arsenical sprays. This is a very good showing, but the loss from worms is still too high. The saving of an additional 10% of the fruit would mean the increase of the profits to be about $500,000. The codling moth problem, from the farmers' standpoint, cannot be regarded as satisfactorily solved until he is able to save this additional $500,000. A practical entomologist could take any apple or pear orchard in the state and reduce the worm loss to less than 3%. This reduction in worms would be accompanied by the lessening of the total number of culls from other causes, for insects other tha
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