THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER:
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; Thursday, June 6, 1907.
. A Summer Mood.
Oh, to be lost in the wind and the sun,
To be one with the wind and the stream!
With never a care while the waters run,
With never a thought in my dream. .
To be part of the robin's lilting call
And part of the bobolink's rhyme,
Lying close to the shy thrush singing alone,
And lapped in the cricket's chime.
Ohi to live with these beautiful ones!
With the lust and glory of man
Lost in the circuit of springtime suns
Submissive as earth and part of her plan
To lie as the snake lies, content in the grass!
To drift as the clouds drift, effortless,, free,
Glad of the power that drives them on,
With never a question of wind or sea. .
Hamlin Garland.
Horse Flies and Their Habits.
Only the Female Bites-How Cattle Disease's Are Transmitted by Them
uggs Are Laid m Boughs Over the Water, and the Young Grubs
jirop out into tne Mad ana Urow.
Messrs. Editors: I, suppose every
body knows the horseflies which bite
horses andjcattle, and the dogflies
which come buzzing around folks in
the lowgrounds, but I presume few
people know the number of different
kinds that occur in any one place.
. In North Carolina the horsefly family
is represented by no less than forty
five different kinds, and no doubt
careful collecting would greatly in
crease the number.
Of these kinds about one-half are
the small flies, known as catfiies,
dogflies, or deerflies, which are all
about the size of a housefly or a
little bigger, and have wings mark
ed with a blackish patch extending
nearly across the wing a little beyond
the middle, while the other twenty
odd kinds are the horseflies proper,
which vary a good deal in size, the
biggest kinds being more than two
inches across the spread wings, while
the smallest are little bigger than a
nousefly.
The largest kind is the American
horsefly which has clear wings and
a brownish body and is only found
in the South, but the commonest
large kind is the Mourning horsefly,
which is black all over, including the
wings, and is very nearly as big as
the preceding.
Only Mrs. Horsefly Bites.
The most annoying kinds are some
of the smaller species, usually known
as green-headed flies, which are very
troublesome to horses and cattle on
account of their -numbers, for, as
is usual among insects, the large
kinds are usually not nearly so plen
tiful as the smaller fellows. While
nearly all the kinds of horsefly and
dogfly are annoying to cattle, the
most serious damage they cause is
to transmit the germs of the disease
known as anthrax from an infected
animal that has been bitten to the
next beast (or man) bitten by the
same fly.
One curious kind is the Mexican
horsefly, which is a medium sized
fly, green with a brown head-and
does , not fly in the daytime, but
comes out at dusk to bite horses and
cattle. This is found in Eastern
North Carolina and thence South
ward. .
Only the female horseflies and dog
flies bite, the males of which have big
ger heads with the eyes touching one
another, having the mouth parts un
suitable for piercing the skin and
sucKing Diood. As the males are
not attracted to man or beast they
are seldom seen; in fact, of about
a thousand specimens collected
around cattle in Georgia and sent to
meaurmS ....lAfi..past two -years not
one was a male. . ..
How the Young Are Raised.
The female lays its
stems or leaves of bushes or plants
overhanging water, and the young
siuua, wuen natcned, fall into the
Water and burrow into the mrifl. nnd
from then till full grown they live
in mua or in moist earth near water,
leeaing. on any soft-bodied animals
they come across. The grub of one
kind, however, lives in ordinary up
land soil and not in the wet earth
ana is the only horsefly p-mh t am
personally acquainted with, having
T J 11 m m ...
meu me mes irom it in the two suc
cessive summers. This is a rather
slender, white erub. with
tapering at each end and with a
sharp beak at the front end of the
body, with which it pierces the bod
ies of the animals it. ot ua
being apparently white grubs. When
f..n t . ,
luH si own u iransrorms into a pupa
of a moth and some twn nr t-Yi fact
weeks later in a medium-sized horse-
ny wun a brown body and spotted
wiugs, wnicn is quite common in late
summer and early fall
Different kinds of horseflies and
dogflies occur throughout all the
warm weather, the earliest and latest
dates being, at Rateie-h
to October 29th, and while several
kinds are on the wing nearly all that
uuu. oiners occur only early in the
season, others only late, and others
a&am oniy in mid-summer.
n 't . C. S. BRIMLEY.
Raleigh, N. C.
Program of the Woman's Department
; of the r North Carolina y Farmers
State Convention.
Wednesday morning, August, 28
10,30 o'clock, general opening exer
cises. : j -
Thursday morning,; August 29
10.30 o'clock. Address of Welcome
Mrs. W. S. Primrose, Raleigh.
Response, Miss Josephine Scott,
Mebane. f
President's Address (Woman's Or
ganizations), Mrs. F. L. Stevens,
Raleigh. j . - ' , v
. Woman's Branch of the Farmers'
Institute, Dr. Tait Butler.
Friday morning, August 30, 10.30
o'clock. Woman in the Farm. Home,
Mrs. W. R. Hollowell, Goldsboro.
Farm Literature, "Aunt Mary," of
The Progressive Farmer.
The Economy, of Food, Miss Mae
Card, McDonald Institute, Guelph,
Canada.
Hints on Home Dairying, Mrs. R.
H. Gower, Clayton.
Officers.
President, Mrs. F. L. Stevens, of
Raleigh, j
Vice Presidents: Mrs. C. N. Allen,
Wake County;' Mrs. J. W. Barnes,
Wilson County.
Secretary-Treasurer, Mrs. Walter
Grimes, Wake County.
Board of Directors: Mrs. F. P.
Tucker, chairman, Raleigh; Miss
Viola Boddie, Nash Co., Mrs. M. M.
McLeod, Robeson Co. ; Mrs. W. B.
Wilson, Chatham Co. -
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. I Chapel Hill, N. C.
GENTi.KJiW:--In regard to the No. 2 can
ner I bought of you last season, I must say 1
am more than pleased -with It. When 1
bought It I only Intended using It for my own
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My goods are pronounced "the very best''
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-" With best wishes and a prosperous season
for you, I am,: ; -
Yours very truly, W. H. Williams.
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Housewives of the Carolinasl
The Progressive Farmer's Practical
Articles.
Messrs. Editors: Wishing each
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