Show t Rnl of I rrllllf nc ml IfKM No fruit re poiul so rapidly to cool I I6ItllIllIlI ec pear and where old tn HUM seem to lie running out n new I less 1 of life Is I given to them by apply hag Xrnund bone and potash coin n will r In the lirornlA Cultivator nllhnut doubt hew nIl the two ri Mitlnl ronstlliienl of the colt tiat the I Pear tree exhauit and when they can I W longer draw them from their soc twindliiK they refuse to produce sal able fruit After many years of ex IHrlfnee I ran safely nay Hint all of the hear l tree of nn old orchard can be retived almost beyond recognition by the annual application of potash and ground bone The procem I hate found the most serviceable Is I to apply about too iKiunil of muriate of potastt with MO pound of ground bone per acre eih jenr Onehalf of lhls mix tare le I applied I In fall and the olJier half In the spring nt plowing time Crimson clover seem le I sown with tho fertlliier In order to Rita the necessary nitrogen Thl repeated years In sue Hlon brings the orchard lip tu a con dition where excellent crop of pearl ran bo depended upon every season Lately many of our ilamtnrd pear hAlo been degenerating and even upon Rood noil they fall to produce the pay Ing crop thnt they hould The fruit ire small taiteles nnd apt to bo knotty and poor generally Our fall fruit are Unusually poor and Insipid and If better pear could be produced at this lime of the year there would be n better general demand Our fall snit winter pear are susceptible of higher nail more dell clous flavor If wo only glte them the right cultivation and ferllllintlon The comparative difference between tho fruit of the name tnrlcty of pear liken from two orchard II I sufficient to convince one of the truth of thl remark re-mark Net n few ore so poor hunt ono can hardly believe that they came from the name stock 011 the other dellclou specimen 1 plucked from tree that hate been fertilized for several heir Herein lice limo difference U Is I n crying I need of the time thnt orrhardlst should gel out of this old ruts nod educnto the public up lo n lose for better fruit In this way the consumption will Increaie Wo can I only do this by abandoning the Idea that apple pear and other orchard trees will lake care of themselte They will not and never did properly They need cultivation and frrtllltatlon Just as truly AI do vegetable grain or other oth-er farm product Im It growing require re-quire U much scientific rtudy ne grain growing or cattle breeding and the sooner limb Is I generally recognized tho better It will be for the Industry Clop 1lantlng of Varieties Tho Idea of mixed and close planting of tnrlelle loop be carried too far and In the wrong direction nnles n study li made of the secondary effect My attention at-tention wa first attracted to the poop Idllty of Influencing the size and quail ty of plum by tho use of tho right pollen by he following fact which lone la I accountable for In no other way thou except by the direct Influence of foreign pollen A chance needling I war planted on my ground almost under the leaning top of a tall Weaver Plum tree for several years tho fruit wa n IarKe > rtlllshobl < inmrM ion of good quality and very productive The plum being to much better In quality qual-ity than the Weaver the Weaver tree wan glut down the next iwnton nut ever slnco the fruit line been amallcr nearly round and n perfect I clingstone Ijist spring I applied pollen from tho Weaver Wea-ver to n few blossoms nail the fruit clearly showed thin effect of tho sea Mr 101lnC W Hcldman Loupe of n Mountain Hheep Tho mountain ihrep doc not leap from great helgth and land either upon hla horn or his feet He knovt the strength of hit material too well to try It Ills horn and skull might auc resifully withstand tho shock but this weight of ills body would break tda spinal column In two or thru place to lay tho least of It It U I true thai when hard preued n herd will come times plunge dawn n terribly sleep Incline In-cline tlldlng mid bounding from point to point until they plow Into tho slldo rock below but at to leaping aver a 1 sheer precipice 1 I never saw any ono who even claimed to hato eter witnessed inch n thing The old I rams often fight by butting each other to II rrll terrlflcnlly and ottcir splinter or some time break off cndi of their horn In that W T In w ayW llornnday Rt Nicholas Currant WormTho European 1 currant cur-rant worm le I on hand and If ha II I let alone will destroy the currant crop and eventually kill ho buihe This worm II I of n greenish gray and about on Inch long and Is I usually found on the under Imo of the leaf close to tho edge often several on ono leaf and ho tote the whole of that leaf and then coca to the nCI until nothing Is I left look carefully nt tho lower part of the basher for the worm generally tart there and work upward turn the bush so that ou can leo the under side of the foliage Tie Vhlto Hcllibore which Is I mot easily applied with tho ordinary Insect powder I bellow Them need bo no fear of poison n the rain will coon wain the powder off and beside be-side It lose all Ili quality loon by exposure ex-posure to the air I Homo coy that salt about two tablcspooiiful to n pall of waterwill kill thcmKx MolcIol are enormous eaters and the worm and the undeveloped matter they conaume It will tiro anyone any-one to feed them I have often traced them to 1 hill of potatoes when evidently evi-dently they turned off with dlsguit after destroying any animal hilt near the potato hence I consider them a blessing In the garden Instead of A tutee They nro strictly nn nnlmnl enter ent-er nod will ctnrto to death with the most tempting vegetable around thIIIA 1 Bhnrp In Hx Sioux City Stock yards 1 to Ho Bold Order havo been made In the federal court for the nlo of the Union Stock yards at Sioux City Iowa to satisfy mortgage to the amount of over Jl000000 In favor of the Mliiourl I Kansas Toms Trust company and the no ton Bate Deposit and Trust I company trimleti And A U Bletson Individually The priority of tho I claim b I established the order lilacs I fid the Stock Yard company la I nl I lowed only ten day to settle them all 70er 3 m before the sal r 1s I mnilo I The yards will I y Wd In by the flloux I City StockYard Stock-Yard company an organization mano formed by man unsecured creditor to Protect their equities |