| Show fruit stealing an n excellent 1 it cure from the american agriculturist we extract the following which contains an antidote antiste against the annoyance of 0 fruit stealing 0 which I 1 tho not often tried we we believe would could in some cases work admirably admi raMy I 1 I 1 am ans glad giad to gee see ie a that this thie matter is i up for lc ulon la in your excellent paper the evil li to the most vexatious yei Tei atton that lles lies in ju 1 the th off orf i lbs ibs li irsla frit grower insects ari arg r troublesome hut but ley try take tike the fruit in the tb blossom dia win or la its it grben green state ind and to 19 gull gly cut cat off i your hopes bopes hopen bat but bui the trespass of the fruit truit thief robs roba you of an actual poss es 51 0 lit ift la iti its f fuk suo ail all perfection ne he carries off with him not only the th product predict of your tob tok toli toll git but bui the tha object of your affect lois in all its blooming beauty luscious grapes and plums plume with the bloom dust of maturity upon tipon their melting cheeks pears hanging like golden goblets brimming with nectar strawberries and the smaller fruits more tempting than ambrosia in the days when the heathen gods and goddesses were aroun around a if it you yon have hive luch each a thing as a new pear pearl that you yon have heard hoara much of ofa or r a new grape whose fame tame f ame Is in all ail 11 the tho tio tie papers it Is sure to be selected by iy the gen gentlemen tIemen i who call only at the midnight hour and on dooni moonlight ight nights it Is in vain tain that you deplore their thein mistake and elcome imlej i them to anything else in the garden quite as good or orbet be 1 ter the f truit fruit upon which you yon had bad set eat your heart hearts Is to wanting and thera there Is no help for it you ton have not even the melancholy satisfaction of knowing your tormentor you yon boll over with more wrath than you would at the iho loss ot of a hundred bundred times the valued value in any other commodo ty you threaten thrashing shooting with white beans or coarse salta salt galt riding on a rail and seriously sly siy contemplate steel teel trap traps burled buried scythes Ecy thes pit falls fallt ipecac tartar eilcy elic and other hor bor horrors rora rord iro iTo nothing thing la Is too bad baa for the un n 1 known enemy while ha he remains remaina navin suspicion uspicio amounting to positive knowledge fastens the crime upon your neighbor who Is land lebs leis or upon your conr neighbor boy little ben whose father never planted i tree la in his life yon yot began to relent s I 1 have no doubt that severe remedies are sometimes necessary especially in cities and their suburbs ibs where every fruit yard Is not only ocly exposed to the victors in its own neighborhood hut bat to atle among a larg foreign population but the fruit grower ln lu the country or in hural rural villa villages gesy where he can exert a social influence over the families infected with this disease has a much better and cheaper ia t aa I 1 I 1 lave bave av studied the matter professionally for ron forsong som 3 I 1 I 1 I 1 years and anil have come to the conclusion conc ludon that fruit truit thieves a are moral beings like the rest of mankind and ig that chiv this infirmity Is a malady that thit admits of moral treatment the plan that I 1 hive have pursued for years Is substantially the f following and I 1 am happy to bay say it la Is i t the h e best results little mn ben and and his young friends baayin havins haying no erttle of their own jook ook upon every cultivator as a stingy old cut cul curs 4 mud dudgeon ceon Zeon who has trespassed upon human rights in bavine havin bavin havin ing ine strawberries and pears for famili family use of co cewe urse 1 with this views view old Cru crusty styls garden Is a legit legitimate Mate 0 object l of hungers plunder and the tha higher he raises his hii walls walis ralls and the more be topi top them with blokin broken glass and 0 other ther horr horrors 1 the more full fun there Is 1 in scaling themy them and tedd feeding i the th watch dog doe with strychnine well coated coated with beet beef beet steak little ben may hoa boa ha a scamp or a scoundrel co undrel or som bom something t ing worse but he has hi a heart and a ort sort of honor hono I 1 T upon which he be prides himself nh tery very true to hia hla j friends and a bobof box of sent nt to hl his hib 6 mp mother ther costin not oven over live five gen ien ceni cens aa will make maka friend for life I 1 sov hos tov the cheapest endmost and most mosi impenetrable tence fence eizu youcan can ean pu put t op up around your garden Is one built of kulii judi clouspy distributed in your own neighborhood to this ahls add the distribution of plants and seeds such as every fruit grower har bar ha on his hands after his sales are over JL wise man mn who will pursue this thia course will soon get jet all his hii neighbors interested in fruit growing crowing and a public sentiment that will wili guard his bis premises ses better ietter t than ha n high blab fences man mn traps traps and poison it 11 you yon suspect a boy of plundering your watermelon water mel del meion melon 1 on send lis father one of your best bet melons melons the next day for din ne r h you yon need not scold or fay a word the melon will mate mata 0 little ben look loot red in the face and bring him to repentance t establish your own reputation for a ll liberal bertl beral fowl hearted neighbor who raises fruit for hi his a well as hims hima himself elty elti and your garden hrden will be about as are sare afe as ParL part paradise Pi ridle ridie dise dige this at least is I 1 experienced cp up horg bore in n r i connecticut 14 j fruit stealing seems to be on the increase in this city probably because as the fruit on til za trees is naw generally ripening there is M more to steal should anyone any one of our h humano humana u mano mane and philanthropic I 1 neighbors drove prove the utility of the above please recommend it to others y I 1 green fuit fult inasmuch Inasi nuch as our fruit is gen brally late this sea season sort there seems to ba jr d disposition olito to partake of it while yetcha yet yeb ft an alured state if it th this is is done at af all ail 01 fhe the fruit whether peaches or apples should be cooked they are then when then suitably sea more wholesome and ana much less apt aptt to be injurious i there is a considerable prevalence of what is called cholera borbus mapy have been seriously ill some fatally others are recover recover in in at such a time when the weather berf beFf la 31 chan chad changeable eabie cold and wet toda today to da day warm and dry tomorrow to morrow the indiscriminate use of un ripe fruits should be studiously avoided in deed at aft such times it will wilf be found lil ill highly g h ly i beneficial and preventive of sick bick bickness sickness nes hes to tb h have na a special regard to diet not to indulge dwany kind of food that would act upon the tile system as a at purgative hae have your fruits well cooked 1 and seasoned anda and though immature the they vil vii be harmless i |
