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Show from seed.. The lower picture shows a lesson in tree planting in the gardes house. The lessons in plant-life take up the seed and its germination, the nutrition nutri-tion of the plant and its development from the seed to complete maturity; how plants are affected by heat, cold,, moisture, dryness, parasites, soil, climate, cli-mate, fertilizers, etc. The laboratory work embraces practice in seed-testing under varying conditions of heat, moisture and oxygen, the planting of seeds under different conditions, with a study from living plant specimens of the formation of roots, leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., and the parts of the flower, flow-er, with . elementary work in cross-pollination; cross-pollination; also transplanting and pruning, the use of the spraying pump, the compounding of insecticides, and fungicides, winter protection of plants, making of hotbeds and cold frames, tree protectors, berry boxes, etc. Additional lessons embrace the cultivation culti-vation of the various fruits of our climate. cli-mate. Including the marketing and preservation, with the culture ani adaptation of flower-garden plant3, also the principal injurious insects and methods of preventing their ravages. The laboratory instruction embraces practical work in grafting, budding, the growing of plants from cuttings, forcing vegetables, etc. Apples for Cold Storage, A valuable bulletin on cold storage for fruit, prepared by Professors Fa-ville Fa-ville and Hall has recently been published pub-lished by the Kansas Experiment Station. Sta-tion. The following instructions are given for the picking and packing of apples for cold storage: Attempt to store nothing but first-class first-class fruit. Have barrels at hand and arrangements made for shipment before be-fore beginning to pick. Pick the crop as soon as it is grown and hag Its color. This is while it is still hard, two weeks before ripeness. Use no fruit that is not picked by hand. Sort carefully, throwing out all fruit that falls below the grade and all that is not absolutely sound. Choose good, well-colored specimens for the first layer of the barrel and place them all by hand, stems down. Do not crowd them. Place the second layer by hand either exactly, apple for apple, on the first or else turn them on their sides, blush down, breaking the joints of the first layer. Alter this pour in the fruit gently from the basket, first lowering the basket into the barrel. Shake the barrel frequently and fill it up, using the same grade and variety of apples every inch of the way. Pack the last layer of the barrel by hand as evenly as possible, with the stems up. When" this is in place apply the press, with a padded head, small enough to fit into the barrel, to settle the fruit Release the pressure, place on the barrel head, force it into position, drive down the hoops and nail them solid. Turn the other end of the barrel up. Label on it plainly the variety and grade of the fruit and the name of the grower. There must be absolutely no move- ment of fruit in the barrel. Ship without with-out delay to the storage house. Ship in the evening if possible. If the distance dis-tance is great, or the connection poor, use refrigerator cars and see that they are iced several hours before putting in the fruit Go with the fruit if possible; pos-sible; if not, have your commission man apprised of the shipment and send him the bill of lading. Trust the commission com-mission man, but never lose track of the apples. The man who attempts to carry apples ap-ples through cold storage in a less painstaking way than this will never succeed. Unless the grower and shipper ship-per can clear his conscience by this standard he cannot wholly blame the warehouse men for his losses in storage. stor-age. In the storage houses of the Armour Ar-mour Packing Company, Kansas City, during the season of 1897 and 1898 were thousands of barrels packed by apple speculators, the shrinkage on which averaged less than 2 per cent In the same room were apples packed by farmers, some of which shrunk as high as 30 per cent. Now, they received re-ceived exactly the same degree of temperature, tem-perature, dryness, etc., so that the fault was not with the storage room, but with the quality of apples and the way in which they were packed. Cold storage cannot improve the ' condition of fruit At best, it can only hold it at something near the condition condi-tion it has when It is put In. It cannot can-not save from decay fruit that is imperfect im-perfect or unsound. A few decaying specimens soon ruin the whole barrel. Sound fruit is the only kind that will keep in cold storage. Horticultural School at Madison. The accompanying illustrations show scenes In the horticultural school at Madison, Wisconsin. The upper picture pic-ture shows the students of the class a plant life at work in the laboratory, studying the development of plants |