Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — Plant Diseases. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Plant Diseases.

One of the best evidences of the work of the Agricultural Department Is the interest taken by farmers in combating plant diseases. Plant diseases are now classified, and expressed in plain language, and but few farmers who receive the bulletins fail to take advantage of the information given, especially in the application of remedies. Fungicides and insecticides are now as much a portion of the farmer's supplies as his fertilizers. Terra del Fueqo (the land ot fire) was-so named by Magellan from the fact that as he moved through the straits which bear his name he observed fires lighted by the natives at many points along the shore. Very generally, but erroneously, the name applied to a number of islands is supposed to indicate the existence of active volcanoes, when, in truth, there is not a single volcano in all Fuego, nor has there been one there since America was discovered.

George Washington—And to think that I whs reprimanded for cutting down on« little tree.