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Show Dandelions Will Be Popular. Dandelions will yet become popular as an article of diet with the people.. They have always been so abundant that they have not been appreciated. Now some eastern canning establishments establish-ments are advertising for dandelions, to cunl They are about to be put on the market, as a staple article of food, to be had at any time of the year. If they are so good for factories to can, they are also good for the home gardener gar-dener to can. Our schools are now teaching the science of canning, which will be a help in making the dandelion dande-lion green available. One of the great advantages in favor of this vegetable is that it is extremely hardy. It grows as far noth as the shores of the Arctic Arc-tic ocean. Some of the seed houses carry dandelion seeds. Anyone, however, how-ever, can gather his own seed, and it should prove interesting to experiment along the line of raising dandelions from native seed on very rich ground and under garden conditions. More Efficacious. "In a few days, Mr. Grimm, you will have no further trouble with my chickens," chick-ens," said Neighbor Yaw. "I am working work-ing on an inventiou which is calculated to discourage thern from scratching. It is an attachment which fastens to the fowl's leg and has a prod projecting project-ing out behind. When he or she, as the case may be, attempts to scratch, the prod strikes the ground and kicks him or her forward. A few scratches, and he or she kicks himself or herself clear out of the garden." "I do not expect to wait for your chickens to kick themselves out of my garden," replied Gaunt N. Grimm. "The next time I catch them In there I'll grab you by the neck and kick you all over this end of town." |