Show 1 I v g w W 4 T g v it ii it iv I 1 yel X J 04 making orchards roy pa y the accompanying illustrations engraved from photographs achs taken at the sinio distance so as to preserve tile the exact relative proportions of each tell the ali whole story of the difference between care and neglect of a young orchard each of these trees Is the I 1 FIGI FIG I 1 arll CARED FOR FOB TREE best not a representative but the best tree to be found in the orchard from it is taken though the larger fig 1 Is more nearly representative than the smaller gsg 1 2 the tenants on five adjoining farms owned by one man were furnished with a hundred or more trees to the farm thus the trees were all planted at the same time iu in similar soil and from the same lot or of trees so that the only difference must come as a direct result of the planting find and aftercare after care received in tile the best of these orchards there was no stinting in digging the holes the roots wore were carefully spread and the soil mixed with table stable manure firmly packed about thew them every winter the ground has been covered with manure taken directly from the stable a few extra forkfuls fork fuls being thrown close about each tree and during the summer the soil has bas been cultivated in truck and potatoes these orchards are arc now seven years old and in this particular one only several trees have been lost in in spite of the extremely dry summers though I 1 know or of one of the orchards orchard 13 which has but twelve trees left and I 1 4 f I 1 k ric FIG 2 NEGLECTED TREE none of those of value american agriculturist A homemade garden roller koller the illustration herewith shows a handy garden contrivance that can be made in a few moments A sect section loAl Is sawed froni fron a round lop log and its ita surface smoothed two round bits of iron rod are bilven into the center of cacti end 11 and tile roller Is ready to take the place of the wheel in the wheelbarrow the ithe latter being unshipped for this purpose pose the special value of this arrangement Is that no now new frame fraine nor handles are arc GOOD GARDES GARDE N BOL LEIt needed for the roller and that the barrow can be weighted to give just the pressure desired browin Gro peppers for market in every neighborhood there Is usually FL a good demand for garden poppers peppers about the time vegetables are arc being put up tip for pickles we ve have known farmers who have made a good business growing a few hundred pepper plants and selling tile the produce not only to neigh neighbors hors but through grocery stores in the nearby near by city or village the plants need to be started in a greenhouse and unless the farmer has one of these useful conveniences it N will ill pay him to purchase the plants of so some me commercial seed and plant grower who at cheaper rates than a farmer can afford to grow for himself the small number that he be requires shallow cultivation for corn nearly nil all authorities now agree that only shallow cultivation should be given corn and that this should be done so as to leave the surface nearly or quite level this Is the best way to save the mo moisture in the soil for the dry time that Is pretty sure to come when corn la Is earing we never knew corn cuatt rated shallow and the surface kept level to fall of yielding ft a good crop but we have seen many pieces halt half ruined mined by running 1 I 1 deep furrow between the rows just as ag corn was comin coming into tassel this exposes a larger surface to the air to be dried out and it if any rain falls it is sure to run in the furrow and do the least possible good buckwheat after buckwheat the buckwheat crop Is more often grown in succession than Is any other in part perhaps because it Is often put on land that cannot bo be prepared for other crops earlier in the season so there Is no alternative when the sod Is once broken up but to sow buckwheat until the land can be re seeded we have known timothy seed sown with buckwheat in july and making a fair stand when the buckwheat was cut early in september on dry uplands clover Is sometimes sown with buckwheat and gets sufficient foothold in the soil to endure the winter but wherever the land is too wet to allow any other crop than buckwheat to be grown on it there Is no use trying to grow clover it may make a show in the fall all right but will inevitably be lifted out of the soil by freezing and thawing the following winter silver liver bcd lcd after twelve years of breeding and carefully testing nearly all breeds of thoroughbred fowls as aa egg producers I 1 give my preference to the breed shown here I 1 have hare carefully tested them for twelve years and in one experiment they showed their superiority as follows len lea liens hens and a cock of brown leghorns Leg horns borns laced wyandot ind and silver spangled were placed in lehigh SHED BRED SILVER SPANGLED ITA 1113 ung 8 separate yards fed the samland same and cafe cabied for exactly alike eggs produced slay may june J july uly S S gs 54 brown leghorns Leg horns ajl 20 1 lu laced Wynn Wyan dots 1 1 5 bu bj the Hani burgs gave more e iss gg s rier per day and during july were be becoming coining fat while half the Wyan dots wanted tl to sit the Ilam burgs continued to lay I 1 showing no signs of broodiness ind laying nearly as many eggs egg s during sep 1 1 ember as iu in slay may during the ra ous year the eggs from twenty hamburg fowls sold for camul a net return over cost of feed of per lien hen this Is a handsome fowl with silver white plumage each feather ending with a most beautiful spi tingle they are a small fowl a and nd very 1 light I ht eaters caters consuming only about naif balf ns much as the larger AVyan dots they are n non on sitters active foragers for agers a and lid i stand confinement better than any I 1 other breed I 1 hane hae yet tried leslia I 1 SteN ait in farm and home core care of the colts fact when farmers raise colts they usually work the mares more or loss less during the following summer bummer nud and for convenience ven veni lence ence they generally shut the colt in stables these have usually lionil lr r cement floors aud and the hard ing surface Is often very injurious 10 tho the feet of the colt it does not lot hurt I 1 the feet of old horses so much because they are geme generally rally shod but the colts colta feet are unprotected A run in pasture Is always best it if closer nt Is necessary some small enclosure with an earth floor not compacted sheild sho ild be I 1 provided this precaution will add much to the value of the colt when it comes to working age waeda in the hill even when harrowing corn over the surface is done there will be occasional weeds that eliat will escape and by t two wo or three repetitions of the barroni harrowing up they will be well rooted some of cheso will be in the hill where the cultivator run through the rows both ways cannot reach them in our opinion it paya to stop the cultivator wherever such weeds are icen and pull them out itis it la true the corn may grow nearly as well but the weed in the hill will extend its roots to the middle of the row and all the plant food it gets will be wasted hand labor with corn has gone out of 0 fashion but it pays to do some hand labor after the cultivator has done all I 1 it t ca can n orchard and garden gai ilan coal ashes are arc beneficial to clay soil I 1 testing seeds heeds will save bare much time i and vexation currant and goosberry bushes should be pruned every year be ready at the first opening la in the spring to set out trees all trees should be transplanted before the leaves start out it Is best to cover all wounds made in pruning with paint or oil |