Show jt transplanting LARGE TREES about transplanting large evergreens ever greens and half grown gron fruit trees that we may get out of the way the ohio farmer says bayst dont go at it as a short job that can be done some morning before breakfast take time and see to the work yourself see that the pit is is spacious but if in clay soil no deeper than is Is necessary to take the tree in as low as its present standing get half a dozen wheelbarrow loads of fine soil such as the tree loves and have it ready at the pit when you come to the tree spade a trench around it at the very extremity of the roots and then work down and under be careful and injure the roots even the smallest of them as little as possible the earth will shake from them but never mind this when the tree is undermined if it is a large one put a rope carefully under it and bring the ends up and tie them over a bar with one to steady the tree and enough to carry it it ca can 11 then be set safely in its place now the fine earth should be carefully packed in each root should be brought out horizontally and all the spread out and thus the work should go on until every root is planted the top roots should be nearly on a level with the surrounding surface and over them should be placed a few inches of loose soil pressed firmly down when all is done anchor the tree with three strips of scantling or poles seta set a few feet from the tree and at equal distances from each other so that their tops will meet in the top of the tree these should be fastened together firmly and then the tree fastened to them 0 J ONE day as I 1 was returning to talia taa hassee from a hunting excursion in fior Flor florida lda ida says a recent traveler we were rowing along by the shore about sunset when sudden budden suddenly iya lyn lya a strange grave and prolonged sound struck my ray ear at first I 1 thought it must be a drone or fly of extraordinary magnitude but seeing nothing I 1 questioned my guide as to what it could be oh massa replied he ldavis dat is de fish what sings slugs some call it siren or mermaid fish and others 1 A little way on we heard a greate greater r c chorus horus of these strange voices reminding ding mei met faintly of the music of church organs I 1 stopped the canoe the better to study this strange phenomenon when at aft my request my sable oarsmen oarsman threw a net into the water and soon laid at the bottom of the boat about a score of little fish each about ten inches long resembling the gray mullet very closely in outward form dese de mermaids massa said the negro but in the name ob hebben dont eat t them hern why not 1 I because they hab de do lub poison lub and arid pray that yes massa when you eat one ob dese nish fish you yon fall fail so deep in lub you can get out again I 1 tried to laugh my black friend out of his notion but in I 1 vain in spite of what he said however I 1 had m my fried that evening and fous fouz found as I 1 expected that I 1 was none the worse for the experiment the musician nish fish is white with a few blue spots near the belly it is about sunset when these fish begin to sing and they continue their music during the night imitating the grave and sonorous droning of an organ just as it reaches your ear when you stand outside a church the new york post rost says the union pacific railroad bali Eail road noad company propose to keep an account of the through gers gera this year who intend simply a visit to the pacific coast so far as such a list can be obtained from applications for passage already made they count on fifteen thousand visitors to this coast most of them persons of leisure and a majority of them have named in their pro gramme a visit to yosemite i i ait toi 1 t 1 ab a b y |