American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . I went to a blacksmith and describedto him what I wanted. He took a worn-out, flat,shoeing rasp, and broke it in two in the middle,and from one-half of it soon forged me a verycomplete tool, sharp and thin at the edges andpoint. I ground it up quite sharp on the sideedges, leaving the back or middle thick, the in-side flat, about in the shape of a spear head cutor split in two flatwise. After a use of threesummers it is but very little worn, and seemsto be the favorite tool of the garden. For replant-ing corn and truck seeds generall
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . I went to a blacksmith and describedto him what I wanted. He took a worn-out, flat,shoeing rasp, and broke it in two in the middle,and from one-half of it soon forged me a verycomplete tool, sharp and thin at the edges andpoint. I ground it up quite sharp on the sideedges, leaving the back or middle thick, the in-side flat, about in the shape of a spear head cutor split in two flatwise. After a use of threesummers it is but very little worn, and seemsto be the favorite tool of the garden. For replant-ing corn and truck seeds generally, it is splen-did. It cannot be excelled for ease of workingand completeness, and by using the side, it is afine affair for scraping the top of the ground andkilling weeds just starting. ? »- » Remedy for Canker Worms. We published last year, page 102, Ralph Rob-insons method of destroying the female mothof the canker worm. That had the merit ofcheap materials, but was expensive in the itemof labor. In a recent conversation with John. PROTECTION AGAINST CANKER WORMS. G. Barker, of Cambridge, Mass., he gave us thedetails of a plan, which he has applied to theorchard of which he has charge, for the last twoyears, with entire success. He is indebted forthe idea to Elijah Luke, an amateur horticultur-ist, of Cambridgeport, Mass. To prevent themoths from ascending the tree, he incloses thetrunk with a rough box, fig. 1, about 15 inchesdeep, of sufficient size to leave about 4 inches between the inside of the box and the nearestpoints of the trunk. The box is set on a level,and the lower edge 3 inches in the space inside the box is packed with tan-bark, to prevent the moths from ascending with-in. About 3 inches from the top of the box onthe outside, he fastens a V-shaped trough madeof zinc or some cheap metal, as shown in theillustration. A tinman is needed to solder thecorners, and make the trough tight all trough must be on a . water level. He thenputs into
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