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Show Why not use the space between trees in the orchard for fall vegetables for home use? Bonemeal Is excellent for vines and fruit trees, and three or four ounces may be applied to the square yard. We have no sympathy for the man or boy who has to cut stovewood on blistering days. Winter was the time for that job. Corn is a good crop. In spite of large crops, it has been very high for the past two years. It is likely to be as high, or higher, next year. For pitching bundles of grain up high in the barn or on the stack, nothing beats a long-poled fork with short tines. You can have one made that way for this express purpose. Plow ground for late summer seeding seed-ing of alfalfa as soon as the corn is in and there is time. Let the ground lie for a few weeks and then work it down frequently to kill young weeds. Now is the best time of the year to see to it that no pools of water are allowed to form and stagnate around the premises. Fight the flies and the mosquitoes and thus keep down typhoid and malaria. The day of the oid grain cradle as a farm tool has almost gone by, and yet a good cradle is a handy thing to have. Take it In cradling around a piece of grain it works first rate, even today. Some of the modern cradles are very easy to swing, too. |