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Show A GOOSEBERRY YABN. " Not long ago officials of the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture were much amused bjr'a letter sent the department by an occasional correspondent in Virginia. Among other things, the writer hastened has-tened to advise Secretary Wilson to this effect: "My wife had a Tame cat that dyd. Being a Tortureshell and a Grate fiver! fiv-er! t. we had the same berred In the Gardln, and for the enrichment of the soil I had the Carkis deposited under the roots of a Gooseberry Bush. (The Frute being up to then of the smooth varrlety.) But the next Seson's Frute. after the Cat was berred, the Ooose-berrys Ooose-berrys was all Hairy and more Remarkable, Re-markable, the Catapilers of the Same Bush was All of said Hairy description." descrip-tion." Collier's Weekly. |