food is everywhere
offered, these small mesh fences are generally effective barriers, but,
in the case of the low fences, drifting snow in winter permits an easy
crossing, and in the case of the higher fences which have the narrow
mesh at the bottom, gradually widening toward the top, it is possible
for a rabbit to get his head and body through a surprisingly small space
between the wires. The writer was astonished, late last autumn, previous
to any snowfall, to see one of these pests, which had jumped from its
"nest" in his (the writer's) covered strawberry-bed, run to the
inclosing fence, which was provided with the long, narrow mesh above
alluded to, raise himself on his hind feet and push his way through a
space not more than three inches wide. It would seem, therefore, that
one should accept with some reservation the assertion that these fences
are actually "rabbit-proof."

PREPAREDNESS FOR (INSECT) WAR.

However one may regard the agitation for or against preparing this
country for (or against) war, we are doubtless of all one mind as to the
desirability of being prepared to successfully cope with the various
insect-pests which are sure to arrive during the coming spring and
summer to attack shrubs, fruit trees, berry bushes, melons, cucumbers
and practically all of our vegetables. The Entomologist has every reason
to be thankful that, early last spring, he laid in a supply of arsenate
of lead, Black Leaf No. 40, commercial lime-sulphur, tree tanglefoot,
tobacco dust, also providing himself with an abundance of air-slaked
lime and a spraying outfit suitable for use in a small experiment garden
and orchard at Lake Minnetonka. All gardeners, particularly those who
cannot quickly purchase such things on account of distance from a
supply, should take time by the forelock and obtain materials now, that
they may be ready at hand when very much needed.

AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN ENTOMOLOGY.

An item of importance, and quite far-reaching in its significance is the
fact (as reported at the recent meeting of entomologists at Columbus)
that the odor in stable manure which attracts house flies, has been
"artificially" produced, if that expression may be used, by a
combination of ammonia and a little butyric acid. A pan of this, covered
by cotton, attracted hundreds of flies which deposited their eggs
thereon. The possibilities of making use of this new-found fact are most
promising, and the discovery is especially si