THE AXT AS A DAIKVMW. Industrious insert .Not Only Work? But Keeps l ows to Work for Him. The home gardener who lias oul) time t'o dig and plant and cultivate and spray for bugs and blights m' >e.: much of the pleasure o: gardening for there is as much to interest the naturalist, floral or animal, in the home garden as anywhere else or earth. One need not seek a foreign land or a forest for his nature study, for a backyard garden will give full opportunity. The growing habits ot his common vegetables and the insects that attack them will, with a little observation, provide pleasing amazement. And no insects are more interesting than the tiny plant-lice or aphids, which grow in a large number of forms and suck the juice from various kinds of plants. The most remarkable thing about some of the aphids is their partnership with other insects. .Many forms of the aphids are fostered and protected from the beginning to the end of their little lives by the industrious ants. The partnership seems to have ?v- reached a most perfect form in the case of the corn root-aphis and the cornfield ant, and it is usually found "4.". that where there are aphids there are ants. The partnership of ant and aphis? the corn ant and the corn root-aphis ?operates in nearly every section , where corn is grown east of the Rocky Mountains. The workings of the partnership have been compared to a subteanean dairy, with the aphis as the ant's "cow. me am unccuug mo enterprise, the aphis doing the work, and the ant getting the profits. The ant is* not directly harmful to the corn, but the aphis is. Without the ant, however, the firm wculd have to go out of business, and that is why the department of agriculture tells farm: ers who want to get^rid of the corn root-aphis &o get rid of the ant. The same advice applies in the case of certain* other forms of root-aphis. This is how the subteranean dairy works: In the fall the ants carry the eggs of the aphis to their nests and care for them as they do their for own young. In the spring, when the eggs hatch, the ants tunnel along weed roots and place The helpless aphids on the roots. Soon the aphids begin . to-give off "honey-dew," made from the juice of the plants on which the aphids are resting. The ants dearly love "honeydew," and they tenderly watch over and care for their "cows." ! The aphids are wholly dependent throughout their life on the ants. The first two or three generations of the aphids live entirely on the roots of weeds, but as soon as the newly planted corn sprouts the ants / transfer the aphis to the more succulent corn roots. After two or three successive generations, many of the aphids may be winged, and some es cape from the ground through the ant tunnels and fly away to a new field. L If they chance to alight near an ant hill they are seized immediately by r the watchful ants, carried into their burrows, placed on roots, and honeydew production starts again. Wfcen cold weather is approaching and the ant carries the aphids' eggs and the young ants deeper into the soil, the ant goes at least eight inches , under the soil and eight inches is deeper than the ordinary plow furrow, r The particular aphis that attacks corn is called the corn root aphis because of its preference for that plant. In" gardens it is very common on asters and related plants. There are many other varieties of aphids, however, and for many of them ants have a tender feeling. For instance, there, are the aphids that attack orange trees in California. The ants sur round these aphids, attack other insects that attempt to reath them, and induce the aphids to excrete honeydew by stroking their bodies with the . * antennae, or feelers. Unfortunately for the orange aphids, however, they are attacked by winged parasites which "sting" and lay eggs in them, and these "arasites are so small and active that tl.'? ants cannot successfully defend-their charges. The corn root-aphids in fields are controlled by rotating with crops upon which the aphids can not live by plowing and disking, breaking up the ant and aphid colonies and by the use of certain pungent substances, mixed with a chemical fertilizer and distributed by means of a fertilizer attachment to the corn planter. These substances tend to drive away the ants and prevent them from placing aphids on the corn roots. To home gardeners whose plants are attacked by aphids, such as the melon aphid, spinach aphid, potato aphid, and the turnip and cabbage aphids, which live above ground, the specialists in agriculture recommend spraying with 40 per cent, nicotine sulphate at the rate of one teaspoonful of the sulphate to 1 gallon of water, in which has been dissolved a oneinch cube of laundry soap. Killing the ants, of course, by destroying their colonies, will help in .the control of the corn root-aphid in gardens, and this is about the only way * _ j "CHKK AMI'S" WAi: llECOUD. >i How Soldier S'igoon Saved the Lost llattni-or. i The story of Che.r Ami. the soldier i pigeon which saved "the iosi battal> ion" and is the only bird in the Amer. I ican armv which wears the distinI ! guished service cross, having lost its. ; left leg and tlie plumage from its l breast in action, is told by Don C. l Seiz in the June St. Nicholas. "The airmen, with their wonderful 1 exploits in the sky, who added new " chapters to the tales of war in the ; great world conflict, will have a broths er in the hall of fame who belongs to the really and truly feathered tribe? a blue-grey and white carrier pigeon, named, lovingly Cher Ami?'dear ' friend by his comrades of the earth. i 1113 lUHe messenger uame lu New York, April iG, 1910, on the transport Oliioan, under the tender care of Capt. John L. Carney of Pigeon company No. 1. Out of the 1,000 pigeons who were members of his command, Cher Ami is the most famous, and lie, alone of all, is to wear the distinguished service cross. Gen. i E. E. Russell, chief signal officer of the American expeditionary force, has so recommended, and Gen. John J. Pershing, the commander in chief, has indorsed the recommendation. "By Gen Pershing's orders, Cher Ami voyaged from France with all the honors due him for his great services; and these were great indeed, for it was this undersized pigeon that saved the famous 'Lost Battalion,' surrounded and starving for days in the Argonne Forrest, its whereabouts completely unknown. The signal sergeant in the battalion commanded by Major?now Lieut. Col.?Charles W. Whitlesy, carried with him on the advance Cher Ami. who had beei^ carefully trained by Capt. Carney, an old soldier with a liking for homing pigeons, which he cultivated at Pittsburg between wars, having served in Cuba and the Phillipines and China. He took over this important messenger service in France, where, after a little time spent in studying geography Cher Ami went on'active duty. "In the Argonne this was lively enough. The rough, wooded tefritory afforded many hiding places for German sharp shooters, always,on the ., lookout for carrier pigeons. So when the beleaguered battalion found itself cut off and without food, a message was tied to the bird's left leg, close up under the feathers, Cher Ami could not escape the keen eyes of the sharp shooters. He was often fired at. One bullet burned the plumage from his breast where there is a wide scar over which the feathers still refuse to grow. Another cut' off his leg above the middle joint. But the valiant 'homer' came in, the message dangling from the wounded joint, telling the peril of his comrades. This-made it easy for the airmen to drop food and cartidges to Major Whittesey's men so that they found their way oufr and made another record in the long list of deeds credited to American valor. .. "By Gei>r Pershing's orders, Cher Ami was billeted to come back a firstclass passenger on the Ohioan in Capt. Carney's stateroom! But he pined for his companions in the pigeon coop, and was returned to their society. "He had for fellow voyagers 100 captured German birds, who are to be given the benefit of free institutions. Cher Ami is to spend the rest of his days in comfort as "a member of Hie signal service in Washington, where he is to have the best of everything and be an example to the squabs as they grow up. What tales he will be able to tell them?in pigeon-English, perhaps." All He Asked. They were standing outside the front door having the final chat after his evening call. He was leaning against the doorpost, talking in low, dulcet tones. She was listening and gazing up rapturously in his eyes. Suddenly she turned round. The door has opened: and there, just inside, stood her father clad in a dressing-gown. "My dear father," she asked, "what is the matter?" Her dear father ignored her question. "John," he said, addressing the I ?? ?~ (An- T Nrrv !^uuiig nia.li, j> v u i\nu>> l vc u^? vi > complained about your staying late, and I'm not going to complain now; but, for goodness' sake, stop leaning against the bell-push. Other people want some sleep, even if you don't." ?London Tit-Bits. it can be controlled, since, living underground, it cannot be attacked by sprays. Another method is to pour a little carbon disulphid into the entrance with earth in order to keep the poisonous fumes in the burrow. Spraying with ' nicotine sulphate, however, is the standard remedy for most garden aphids, and should not be postponed or neglected when they are found to be present, as they increase very rapidly and unless checked soon kill the plants. ~ I I ' . fes fe.-i '/) , J %/. Don't Fool Yourself. On The Furniture Question. Quality buyers come to us for everything in this line. T + V\Af?OUCO r\ f flio T-T1 o*"h OllQllfv JL L O U I*. OO KJ 1 ^-C. * * of everything we sell. G. R. 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