Mr. Cadoo:  Do angleworms hurt house plants?

Mr. Moore:  Not as a rule.  They do eat a small amount of vegetation, but ordinarily in a house plant, if you have, say, a worm in a pot, I think it is rather beneficial than injurious, because it keeps the soil stirred up.

Mr. Rasmussen:  What is the spray for the cabbage and onion maggot?

Mr. Moore:  Unfortunately I am a very poor person to remember figures, and I carry this around with me.  One spray is three ounces of lead arsenate, two and a half pounds of brown sugar to four gallons of water, but we found that probably a little better spray was to use the New Orleans molasses instead of the sugar and the formula is:  One ounce of lead arsenate, one-half pint of New Orleans molasses and one gallon of water.  The spray that was used for the onion maggot and was devised over in Wisconsin is:  One-fifth ounce of sodium arsenite, one-half pint of New Orleans molasses and one gallon of water.

Mr. Rasmussen:  The Wisconsin spray is what I used to spray my place several years, and I was wondering if it was the same.

Mr. Moore:  It was peculiar that they started to work on the onion maggot in Wisconsin at the same time we started on the cabbage maggot here.

Mr. Rasmussen:  We have controlled the onion maggots almost entirely, but the cabbage maggots are very difficult.

Mr. Moore:  In our control plots it controlled it very well.  Our plants were infested only with a few maggots, but not sufficient to do any injury.

The Wealthy Apple.

F. H. BALLOU.

(THE OPINION OF AN OHIO APPLE GROWER—­FROM A BULLETIN ISSUED BY OHIO
STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.)

The value of a variety of apple commercially usually decides its place in the estimation of growers.  Naturally the later maturing, longer keeping or winter varieties are generally accorded this preference.  Orchardists in the southern part of Ohio doubtless would elect Rome Beauty queen of money makers, were the question put to a vote.  Apple producers of northern Ohio or western New York would as surely vote for Baldwin.  But what variety would you—­Mr. Lover-of-apples-and-apple products—­vote for and plant if but a single variety and space for but a single tree were available?  After twenty years observation and enjoyment of apple precocity, apple dependability and all-around apple excellence throughout a long season, the writer continues annually to cast his ballot for Wealthy.

[Illustration:  Mr. Rolla Sfubbs, of Bederwood, Lake Minnetonka, under his favorite tree, the Wealthy.]