Enemies That Harm Your Plants :

The devices and implems used for fighting pl enemies are of two sorts:

(1) those used to afford mechanical protect to the pls;

(2) those used to apply insecticides and fungicides.

Of the first the most useful is the covered frame. It consists usually of a woo box, some eighteen inches to two feet square and about eight high, covered h glass, protecting cloth, mosquito netting or mosquito wire. The first two coverings have, of course, the addital advage of retaining heat and protecting from cold, making it possible by their use to pl earlier than is otwise safe. They are used extensively in ting an extra early and safe start h cucumbers, melons and the ot vine veables.

Simpler devices for protecting newly-set pls, such as tomatoes or cabbage, from the cut-worm, are stiff, tin, cardboard or tar paper collars, which are made several inches high and large enough to be put around the stem and penetrate an inch or so into the soil.

For applying poison powders, the home garer should supply himself h a powder gun. If one must be restricted to a single implem, however, it l be best to one of the hand-power, compressed-air sprayers. These are used for applying wet sprays, and should be supplied h one of the several forms of mist-making nozzles, the non-cloggable automatic type being the best. For more extensive work a barrel pump, mounted on wheels, l be desirable, but one of the above l do a great deal of work in little time. Extens rods for use in spraying trees and vines may be obtained for eit. For operats on a very small scale a good hand-syringe may be used, but as a general thing it l be best to invest a few dollars more and a small tank sprayer, as this throws a continuous stream or spray and holds a much larger amount of the spraying solut. Whatever type is procured, a brass machine it l out-wear three or four of those made of cheaper metal, which succumbs very quickly to the, corroding act of the strong poisons and chemicals used in them.

Of implems for harvesting, beside the spade, prong-hoe and spading- fork, very few are used in the small gar, as most of them need not only long rows to be economically used, but horse- power also. The on harvester attachm for the double wheel hoe, may be used h advage in loosening ons, beets, turnips, etc., from the soil or for cutting spinach. Running the hand- plow close on eit side of carrots, parsnips and ot deep-growing veables l aid materially in ting them out. For fruit picking, h tall trees, the wire-fingered fruit-picker, secured to the end of a long handle, l be of great assistance, but h the modern method of using low-headed trees it l not be needed.

Anot class of gar implems are those used in pruning but we this is attended to properly from the start, a good sharp jack-knife and a pair of pruning shears l easily handle all the work of the kind necessary.

Still anot sort of gar device is that used for supporting the pls; such as stakes, trellises, wires, etc. Alto too little att usually is given these, as h proper care in storing over winter they l not only last for years, but add greatly to the convenience of cultivat and to the neat appearance of the gar.

As a final word to the intending purchaser of gar tools, I would say: first thoroughly investigate the differ sorts available, and when buying, do not for that a good tool or a well-made machine l be giving you satisfactory use long, long after the price is forgotten, while a poor one is a const source of discomfort. Get good tools, and take good care of them. And let me repeat that a few dollars a year, judiciously sp, for tools afterward well cared for, l soon give you a very complete set, and add to your gar profit and pleasure.