. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 24 and eastern stales are paving out $15,000,000 a year for Paris "green to put on their potato vines. Wliy? Be- cause tlie (|u:;il, tlie natural enemy of lliat bug, has lu'en almost exterminated. Eacli of the great apple prodiuing states is paying .*!,(100,000 to 5<(M),(IOO a year for spraying apple trees to keep down the codling moth. Why? Be- cause the vvoodi)eckers, the sapsiickcrs, the robins, the blue jays, the bluebirds, the orioles, the tanagers and other birds that formerly preyed on this insect have been kilh-d ofl', and every man, woman
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. Page 24 and eastern stales are paving out $15,000,000 a year for Paris "green to put on their potato vines. Wliy? Be- cause tlie (|u:;il, tlie natural enemy of lliat bug, has lu'en almost exterminated. Eacli of the great apple prodiuing states is paying .*!,(100,000 to 5<(M),(IOO a year for spraying apple trees to keep down the codling moth. Why? Be- cause the vvoodi)eckers, the sapsiickcrs, the robins, the blue jays, the bluebirds, the orioles, the tanagers and other birds that formerly preyed on this insect have been kilh-d ofl', and every man, woman and child who eats an apple or a potato helps to pay for this poison. Of the 1,200 species of birds inhabit- ing the Cnilcd States, about 335 visit Kansas; 175 of these nest in the state. In calculating some of the worth of BETTER FRUIT these birds to the state, we will use the Massachusetts estimate of five birds to the acre. Kansas, with her 51,200,000 acres, slmuM have a bird i)opulation of 250,00(1,(JiiO. Insect-eating birds con- sume 111 a very conservaiive estimate too ii'sicls a dav. Kansas birds would devour 25,0(10,0(10,(100 every day (.May to S( pleniber, inclusive) for live months or 150 days. That these figures can be belter un- derstood it has been computed that abnul 120,000 ;tverage-sized insects fill a bushel measure. This means that Kansas birds consume 213,333V-i bushels of insects a day. Then for 150 days (live months) thev would use a total of 32,000,000 bushels of insects. Again, by Mrs. Nice's careful observa- tion we are enabled to state that 10,000. 4, SPECIAL RUBBER BELTING When it coines time to fill your Silo use a "Test Special" Rubber Belt. It is a safe guarantee against shutdowns or other (delays due to the use of improper belting. "Test Special" is macde for hard, out-(dcx)r "usage and fully guaranteed. Our Free Service Department If you are not getting the expected power or service from the belt you have, your trouble is
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