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r?; *> $ TO DISTINGUISH PUBC LIKEN'. When purchasing sheer handkerchiefs those that are pare linen may be readily reoognized by moistening the tip of the finger and stretohing the fabric over it. Linen will show the moisture through immediately, but cotton threads take more time to absorb it child's plat coat. A little child in plum-colored burlaps played in the park one day this week with a small black kitten decorated with a cream satin bow, whioh, oddly enough, was of the same shade as the Bedford cord hat which sbe wore. The hat was made poke, with ruffle around the neck. The strings and small bow on top were of a deep jK shade of plum taffeta, while the same color and material was used in a . double belt around the waist.?St j Louis Star. florence nightingale. I Florence Nightingale is seventy-six years old and so broken in health that she can scarcely write a letter, yet she never forgets to send some message to the veterans of the Crimea on the an? a tri'nfnvv Of fr> TATTlAm Ui V OA DM J V? W f4 vtv*;, w - . ber, at Christmas time, those who are laboring in the institution for training norses which she founded at St. Thomas's Hospital soon after the olose of the war. Surgeon-General Manifold was <me of her warmest friends and one or the first to promote the employment of women nurses in the army. WOMEN AGITATING IN CHINA. The women of China have gone into j the business of agitating. They have sot yet begun to sigh for suffrage, so far as appears at present, but they do want natural feet, and to this end two societies, the International Women's Union and the Tieu Tien Hni, or Nat ural Feet Society, have combined. Petitions were drawn up and numerous signatures obtained, but it was found impossible to get the matter before the Emperor and Empress. The authorities to a horn it was sent replied that the matter oould not be regulated ? ^ by law; those who did not want to bind their children's feet need not do so; those who did could not be prevented; and, therefore, it was useless to trouble their Majesties.?New Tork Journal BEAUTIFUL AKMS. One great troable many women have is about their arms, whioh, instead of being smooth, hare, especially in the npper part, above the elbows, rather what is called a goose-ossy appearance, 4 whioh gives them a ooarse, rough look. When such is the case the skin should be well friotioned night and & " v morning with a lootah and good soap, afterward rubbed in, or, if that is t thought to be too greasy, a preparation of glycerine and cucumber. If this is done regularly the coarse appearance will be done away with. Certainly a smooth, white arm is an attrition, and all women should try to keep it so, so far as lies in their power. Many women have an idea that it is a waste of time to bestow muoh effort 01^ their personal appearanoe, but that is ?/ a mistake. It is a duty they owe to themselves. ?San Francisco Chronicle. MUD FACE BATHS, The latest fad of fashionable ladies in search of beaotifnl complexions is mud?plfin, dirty, sticky mud. The idea is by no means new, but it is the first time that society has accepted it as a skin beautifier. Swamp mud, or the mud from the W-'- bed of a stream, is the best. The skin should be thoroughly cleansed and dried until it feels warm and the perspiration has started. Then apply the mud thickly, taking care to keep it * from the eye3. It is especially necessary that oare be taken to cover all portions of the skin alike, as the smallest patch of uncovered skiu is likely to stand out with disagreeable plainness the next morning. The feeling of the mnd on the face is not as unpleasant as one might at first suppose, and its beneficial results are very great 'tis said.?New York Journal. A NEW ENGAGEMENT RING. j y A Western gentleman has invented an engagement ring that, while it will . bring untold joys to the feminine soul, will cause the same amount of anguish to the masculiue purse. After pur chasing one of these new engagement rings the bank account of the victim will wear monrning for more than ^ thirty days. ? T^is ring is actually two rings. The golu is twisted in a manner to form two connecting rings, destined to be worn on the "love" and "pinkie" fingers, respectively. The prettiest of these two-fold rings has a diamond in one ring and a ruby in the other. Prioe not mentioned. The rings when off look like two hoops of wire. Upon the hand they are very becoming. They hold their place well, not permitting the stones to become turned inside. Wearing this ring with a glove is tronblesome, but as an engagement ring it is very fine. The quality idea is admirably told, and, as a practical pi' mm point, it may be mentioned that such a ring cannot easily slip off.?Philadelphia Time?. MISS WILLARD IN MARBLE. The memory of Frances E. Willard will be perpetuated in the Nortnwestern University, Chicago, by a life-size bast of white marble, which is to be presented to that institution daring commencement week. The bast will be given to the college, which is Miss Willard's alma mater, by J. C. Shafer, a wealthy resident of Evanston. It will be the work of Lor ado Taft. Miss Willard has been an intimate friend ef Mr. and Mrs. Shafer for a nnmber of years, and while the three were crossing the ocean in the same boat last summer Mr. Shafer begged Miss Willard's permission to make the gift, which, he Baid, would keep the memory of her work alive among the people. Miss Willard oonsonted, and it is to give the time requifed by Mr. Taft for the sittings that she deoided to oome to Best Cottage during the early summer. She with her Secretary, Miss Gordon, will spend a short time in New York, where Miss Willard will address a meeting of the W. C. T. U. From there they go to Washington, going directly thenoe to Chicago. The gift to the university, of which Miss Willard was the first woman to be appointed a dean, will be acoompanied by a memorial demonstration. ?New York Commercial Advertiser. FASHION NOTES. The narcissas is fashionable in millinery. Monotony is unheard of this season owing to the variety of materials and colors in vogue. Pretty evening waists are made of lisse, laid in deep horizontal tuoks, ! over a silk or satin foundation. The flimsy materials, such as mus' lins, bareges, etc., and even very light silks, for florinoed skirts, are tfle latest innovation. Hyacinth blue and a certain pale rosy shade of mauve is a very fashionable French oolor mixture, and, as a rule, is a becoming one. Milliners especially favor the combination. The fancy for fabrios with blaok and oolors of vinous kinds interwoven has brought out many twilled goods of different weights. These make neat and pretty gowns for matronly women. Chiffon and monascline-de-soie are most frequently used as trimmings for silk and satin, and though not so fashionable as the other materials, entire gowns are still sometimes made of them. An afternoon gown is of pale gray oloth, with a little pointed bolero coat made of rose velvet braided in stripes of gray, but unoovered where it is turned back to show a soft front of white ohiifon and butter-colored lace. Some of the fanoy nets have very large holes through which ribbon of several widths may be run to form the deooration on both bodioe and skirt xnifl simple trimming, nowever, is confined usually to the danoe frooks of misses and very young girls. A frock of lavender China orepe has one of the much worn aocordionplaited skirts, with waved ruohings of chiffon and a poached bodice draped over a tiny white vest with a waterfall of ohiffon and lace at one side of tbe front The wide belt is of deeperhued miroir velvet Very picturesque is a gown of black glaoe silk with fringed flounoes over whioh oomes a pointed bodied with the tiniest of plaitings, finished with an Elizabeth raffle at the throat A pale blue sash caught up on one side of the bodioe has a pink rose tuoked into a chou of soft silk. Lace is pearled with jewels till it becomes a dewy delioious maze, and every seam or bolero or belt is an excuse for them. The epal, with its capricious color ohanges, is high in favor. It ties one to no particular grfwn, it is most amenable, and only "the real thing" is to be had in this most beautiful of stones. But for the purpose of millinery there are still countless other gems from whioh to choose. Home jeweling is dainty work. Paper Underclothing. Tbe Japanese are now making anderolothincr of their finelv crisDed or grained paper. After the paper has been out to a pattern, the different parts are 6ewed together apd hemmed, and the places where the buttonholes are to be formed are strengthened with calico or linen. The stuff is very strong, and at the same time very flexible. After a garment has been worn a few hours it will interfere with the transpiration of the body no more than do garments made of fabric. The stuff is not sized, nor is it impermeable. After beooming wet, the paper is difficult to tear. When ar endeavor is made to tear it by hand it presents almost as much resistance a ? the thin skin used for making glove#. ?Answers. Last year about $31,000,000 worti of tobacoo was smoked in Spain?ar average of $1.80 per her headL Trrr. * . *3 (THE FIELD OF A.DVENTDRE. i I THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARING DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. | Chased by a Band of Sioux IndiansKeeper's Nerve When a Lioness Got Loose. THE real "Deadwood Dick," otherwise Dick Clark, laughingly repudiates most of the deeds and adventures attributed to him by the dollar a-mile dime novelists, but is willing to admit that he has been in some pretty tight places, and is duiy thankful that he lives to tell the tale. Clark is in the employment of theF., E. and M. V. Railway Company, at Whitevood, and now goes about a daily routine, utterly devoid of romantic features, but if properly approached he if; not averse to "spinning a yarn" about the days when he was an adventurous boy, Qom TTa m'trna f ha DUUUblUg X ?/i vuwiouajii. uu ^ATVO ?UV i story of his most thr.lling experience as follows: "The tightest pinch I was ever in was in the spring of '73, on a ride from Fort Pembina to Fort Stephenson, away np North. 'Jimmy from Cork,' a well known scout of those days, had the ride to make, aud invited me to go along, with the assurance, however, that it would be at the risk of my scalp. "It was lovely weather when we started, and we had a pleasant, uneventful trip to within a couple of days' ride of the Missouri. Jimmy was jolly company, always telling stories and cracking jokes, like the happy-go-luoky Irishman he was. He was not only good company, but he was a good man to have with you in a scrimmage, for, although he was a little chap, he was strong and wiry and was totally devoid ot fear. "One evening, a couple of days before we expeoted to reach the river, we had stopped to camp, and had the horses picketed out and the fire going * T' 33 1_ l..*J Jo* supper, wnen Jimmy suuaeaiy iaiu his ear to the ground, then looked up and remarked quietly: 'Injuns, Dick! Get th' horse, an' be quick, too, i'r we've got t' roide f r ut!' "We didn't have much of a start, for by the time we got into the saddle they were within rifle shot of us. As soon as he was mounted Jimmy, who was a splendid marksman, drew a bead on the foremost red and 'got* him? and for a moonlight shot from the back of a nervous horse 1 thought it was pretty good. Then we flew, with the ballets pelting all aroand as. "Our objective point was a place known to Jimmy as the 'Dog's Deo,' about sixty miles from where the reds flushed us; and the question was uppermost all the time, Can we make it? Well, to make a long stoiy short, we did make it, running right through another bunch of Sioux to get there, iust as we began to think ourselves safe. Jimmy shot one red's pony, and was hit on the leg himself; but it wasn't much more than a scratoh. His horse was grazed on the flank by the same ballet. "We were mighty glad to get into the 'Dog's Den,' which was an excellent place for defence. It was a little rock strewn terrace, backed up by a perpendicular cliff. The rocks in front made a natural b&rrioade. There was a little grass and a spring of water; and, properly provisioned,a half dozen or so of men might have withstood an army there. As scon as we got inside the'barricade we dismounted and looked baok. The reds, half a hundred or more, were swarm ing right after us. "All day wo stood off the crowd without much trouble, but when the shadows began to lengthen we got uneasy, for wo knew we couldn't hold out against so many in the dark. We had done it for the hour or so before daylight, but we couldn't do it all night So, just as the dusk began to gather, Jimmy told me to go and get the horses. I Saddled them in good shape and joined Jimmy, and presently he gave tho word, and the way we flew down that hill was worth the price of admission. I didn't see anything distinctly, but I knew that we were going through a lot of Indians buoohed together ; that they were shooting at us, and we them, and the next thin<r Jimmy and I were side by side skim* ming over the level prairie toward the sonroe of the Jim Biver. "For about an hour we rode, with the red rascals none too far behind, and taking an occasional shot at us, until we came suddenly to a little stream that flowed toward the Big ! Cheyenne. It wasn't very wide, but the banks were high and almost perpendicular, so we did not try to cross 1 the stream, but turned and followed 1 it From the yells that followed this movement we knew that the reds had seen us, and thuught they had us trapped. Then suddenly half a dozen little fires sprang up in our rear and 1 in almost less time than it takes in the telling these merged into one great ( wall of flame that bounded across the prairie behind ua like a race horse. "It looked as though we must surely die, in one way or another, but we in- < tended to die fighting. We found a place where, by going down the bank carefully, we oould get into the creek bed. * Then we set a back fire, and 1 another on the opposite side of the creek, after which we got into the 1 water, with nothing but our faces 1 ? V * S * XI ?* X _ J | oat, ana wanea ior me uig ure iu cuuiu ; along. "It came, along with a pelting storm ; of flying, burning missiles. It jumped : the creek and presently petered out, but not until the terrible heat had 1 singed off our whiskers and the hair our hats didn't oover and the smoke had almost suffocated us. After it was over we got out and reconnoitred, but there was no sigi of the Indians, and j we decided thej must be waiting for i the ground to cool before cpming to < find our charred and blackened re- i mains. i "Pretty soon we pulled out and re- i . ; , . .. ' i . _ ... J - . ,_1 - ;-;-r; y ramed our trip toward the heact waters ol the Jim, and in a few hours! we came npon the camp of somei; friendly half breeds?eleven of them| i ?who were hunting horses that had ' been stampeded by the Indians. They 1 took ns in, fed and sheltered us, and | came near suffering for their hospital*, j ity, for at daybreak the Indians, who had struck our trail and followed it, I AAm/k AIAMM /lomon/lml AI1W finffhn. ! muug auu u^utauuwu vu? ?W**VM der. "The half breeda were game, however, and told them to stand back and fight; they wouldn't deliver us worth a cent. The messengers went back and reported, and they charged on ne in the bufialo wallows, with the result that we emptied throe or four saddles. "Then followed as pretty a fight as ever I care to see. They were four to one, at least; bat while a half dozen of as remained entrenched and did effective shooting at the least possible risk to ourselves, the others got oat and fought them Indian fashion by riding around them, and harrassing them, flank and rear. At the end of a couple of hoars they got disgasted and withdraw, with the loss of a half dozen men and enough horses captured by the half breeds to recoup them for those they had lost, with several more for interest. Of oar oatfit three of oar four were wounded, bat none of them seriously. "Jimmy and I reached the post all right, bat pretty badly scorched and shaken up. We parted there, and I did not see 'Jimmy from Cork* again until 1876, when he was at Crook City, in the Black Hills. He left there to join General Terry, and died a little later at Fort Buford."?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. An Animal Keeper's Nerve. "There was a man travelling with as some twenty years ago, an Englishman named Wilcox, wh o came to thii country when quite a boy and grew up a pretty good American. He wat a helper around the animals, and somehow he went to England and got a job with the old Wombwell Menagerie, long before it was sold to Mandera. When the split occured he went to the big Bellevue Garden at Manchester with some of the animals tho proprietors had bought He soon rose to be head man over the lions, tigers, ko., and had a house in a pretty little garden just within the great wall, near the entranoe gates. Five nights before Christinas the lion* ess, a new purchase recently imported from Africa, gave birth .to a litter of four cubs, and the cage front was boarded up and every cars was takon of her. Well, Wilcox went on Christ* mas Eve to a party with his wife, leaving his helper to feed th9 animals and close np. Toward midnight ho -returned, entered the gardens, and went to sleep in his honse. An hour later his wife woke hhn, saying there was a noise ontside in the garden, and he got u p and looked oat of the win* dow. Bight in frogt of lps honse, at the big gate, 'was that lioness with one of her cabs, and she was biting at dnnr and scratching for dear life to get under it, her idea being to got out in the open. In that open, within a circuit of five miles, were more than a million people. Some one must have fastened her cage door insecurely or something had gone wrong. "Wiloox slipped on his trousers and shoes, and, despite all his wife could do, he slipped out of the front door of his oottage, hurried around by the private hedge, and in the moonlight went running down through the lines of forcing houses for plants, keeping thorn between him and the gate as mciob as possible, and so vanished from his wife's sight, in the direction of the lions' house. In a short time ho reappeared right in the oentre avenue with a cub in his arms, and his wife saw him come boldly right down the walk until he was within twenty yards or so of the lioness. Then ho pioked op a stone and threw it at hsr as she lay biting at the door. The brute looked round, saw the man, and jumped up with an angry growl. The man bit one of the cub's ears and made it ory ont just as the lioness was about crouching for a spring. At that sound she rose, her tail moved softly instead of lashing her sides, and she walked straight to the keeper. Wilcox held the eub out to her and said, 'Hello, Queenie,' as if it was the most natural meeting in the world, and,, letting her take the cub ? v:_ i J v~ ?a *n/l iruiu ilia uaiiu9 no ^aooou uct auu pioked up the other one. She dropped the one she held came to take the one he pioked up, getting more friendly every minute. So, picking up the i cubs and giving them to her, stepping baokward all the time, he slowly led the brute to her cage, and then mounting the narrow platform, pushed the iron gate open and threw a cnb inside i to the furthest corner. The lionose ; bounded in after it, he threw the other ; cub in also, banged the gate to, ahot the bolts, and fell unoonacious from < the platform to the ground. "Not seeing him return his wife sounded the alarm and brought all the < helpers to the cottage, and they cau- ( tiously went to look for him, ana there ] they found him with a third cub curled up by his side. Well, the matter was of course kept quiet, the un- < der keeper was severely scolded for , carelessly shooting the bolt past the ( socket instead of into it, and as for Wilcox they gave him a present of j 52500, and his place was solid for , keeps. It was a piece of good old- , fashioned American-raised grit just the ; same.?New York Sun. A Xew Soap Invention. It is said that a French chemist has : mado a blue soap which will render j unnecessary the bluing in the laundry. In ordinary soap he mcorpor- ' rates a solution of aniline green in : strong acetic acid. The alkali of the : soap converts the green into blue. Stii\ . - - - -:y fa GIVE THE HOG A CHANCE. There is encouragement in the general acquiescence in the policy of gi? ing swine range?plenty ot grass ana olover, and lees of the everlasting corn diet We no longer aim at masses of living lard The better methods are giving ns pork which is fit for use, and is largely increasing the demand for tjie products of this profitable animal. Give the hog a chance, and he will do his best for as. ORNAMENTAL TREES AND SHRUBS. There is a great difference of opinion as to what trees are the most suit* ble for ornamental planting. It is, however, admitted that it is desirable to plant trees in parks, abont homes, roadsides and waste places. Among the most beantifnl ornamental trees are the American white elm, white ash, and sugar maple. These are fine looking trees, hardy and make good shade. It costs bat little more to plant these than the almost worthless Cottonwood, box elder or poplar. Other trees that are very desirable are the haokberry, cat-leaved white birch and for OAsmental purposes the Russian snowball. PACKING AND 8HIPPTN0 BEES. An apiarist gives the following direoiions for paeking and shipping bees: The manner of packing depends somewhat upon the kind of hive, and to some extent on the season of the year, 'lhey can be shipped any time of the year when bees are flying. If the weather is comparatively cool, as in spring and fall, they.do not need so much ventilation as through the warm months. There is little danger, however, of giving too mnch ventilation at any ti me. Just how the ventilation oan best be given depends npon the hive, but with almost any hive you oan have the entire top oovered with wire cloth, and that makes the colony safe against smothering. If the weather is hot, the bees need a supply of water on their journey, whioh may be given by means of a sponge or a roll of rags saturated with water and placed on the top of the frames. If the hive - m At oontaiiui loose-Hanging iramea, tnese muf't in some way be made fast This may be done by driving nails through the ends of the top bars down into the ends of the hire, bnt the nails should not be driven in their entire depth, leaving their ends projecting so they can be drawn with a clawhammer. When placed on the cars,let the frames run parallel with the track; on a wagon they should run crosswise, GOOD BOADS VS. BAD BO ADS. Tie present state of our common roadie, ought to stimulate any publio spirit that may still exist among our farmers, writes Samuel Sinnett Oh, such beds of mire, or frozen masses like loads of stones dumped on the roadu, are the charaoter of the roads in n< arly every vicinity. Last winter, owing to absenoe ot snou enough to make good sleighing, was ii very trying one to our farmers who had produce to haul to market or were obliged to coma to town to get th'eir maiL To present a realizing estimate of what our roads are at present, I will give your readers a sing',e instance of one of our "lovely" highways. I live at the termination of cno of the finest avenues of elm treeii I ever saw. Dr. Weed, my next neighbor, planted them over forty years ago, and they have grown np and to rmed an avenue over a mile long. Thif, Park avenne, is one of the at* traotions of oar city, and strangers are alwayci taken out to adnire the ap* proaoh to oar eity that eannot be equaled in any of the parks of Europe. Three months ago, when the roads were dry and dasty, this avenue was the favorite drive for pleasare*seekers, and the bioyo'e riders kept it warm. Thin avenue is a fine level surface, and the road graders had it put in nioe shape by rounding up the middle of the read. About a week since a large drove ot cattle was driven down this avenue. That day the thaw was about six inches in depth, but that night it froze hard, and you can imagine the Btate of the road next day?scarcely a single square yard that was not punched full of holes six inohes deep; and, incredible as it may appear, there is an inexhaustible supply of gravel within half a mile of this road, and there were idle men and teams enough ? ? I V a. Xt M IMC winter to nave maue turue or luur first-class roads across the country. I am the firm advocate of gravel roads for our prairie country, and give the following reasons: First?They are the cheapest, and when the road is in good shape and drainage secured, the top dressing can be applied any time, even during the winter. Seoond?Gravel can be obtained within easy reach of the roads,as most counties prodnoe it, and it requires no engineering to apply it. Third?When depressions occur or boles form, gravel soon forms a smooth surface when used in repairs, and Boon becomes incorporated with the roadbed. Fourth?It is always clean, as the rain washes off the mud and the wind blows off the dust. Drainage is the first consideration in all road buildings, particularly in gravel roads. This road question grows so important as I write that I will have to defer further remarks to another le'.ter; in the meantime the farmers rJnonld hold meetings to consider the best "t iii' i ^ qui1 means to secure better roads, and county conventions should be held to determine on fntore action.?Farm, Field and Fireside. rOUI/TBT RAISING. In the first place a man mast possess a certain amount of that carefulness so essential in this branch of business. It is as reasonable to expect corn ?j planted on ground that never was plowed, and that never received any attention until gathering time, to yield well, as te expect to be suocess* ^ fnl raising poultry by simply turning ? them out to care for themselves, win- w, .? ter and summer, to procure their food as best they can. This may be all well enough at car- j tain seasons of the year when insects and green food are abundant; bnt fa during the remainder of the year they need the proper amount of care ana' attention or the profitable part of the business will come up missing when . ? we square up our accounts at the end of the year. Cholera, roup, and the thousand and one ills that ohicken flesh is heir to, will sweep -.them off like gnats before the summer ^torm. Jj One_wiU tell v^u th^t his success de;, pemfs upon this very essential thing; another will tell yon that certain other things are the very ones npon which ' j he depends, and that other things are g entirely superfluous, and so the amateur reads this one's views and that one's views ou the matter, all differing , very widely, until he is like the mariner without his compass?lost at sea. i No fixed and unalterable lawoanbe J laid down as a guide to suooess in the ' f poultry business, but eaeh one must have a little snap about him, watching ; ;SM carefully the varied wants of each flock. | While a qertain kind o( fowl may do well kept in a certain way on a certain kind of feed, another kind will not seem to thrive at all kept in this way, bnt should be supplied with some* ^ thing different. For example, the Leghorn requires fat forming food to put them in good laying ooaditioa, while the Cochin needs to be oarefully fed, less they become too fat, and not , lay at all. * Exercise is an all important faotor that must not be lost sight of. If your, fowls are confined to small runs .-Jw so that they do not get the proper . t amount of exercise their grain food should be traded tinder straw and . ,,,| chaff, causing them to hunt it oat for :< themselves; plenty of gravel, ground :M bone, dust baths, and fresh water, and / Ja the last and most important of the list is cleanliness. The ntmoet oleanlinaa .ffl must be adopted in all thingi connected with your fowls,' firm the % -f roosts to the feed troughs and tho - y coops for the young. Onoe in shape and then striotly attended to each day will save tenfold the amount ol! labor required to clean np after things have f onoe become filthy. Watoh every point in connection with the matter and in the end snooees will be yours. ?Farm and Bench. . j r AIL* JUli/ UAAvan r~ r m r ? It costs just as much to grow, psck ^ and market poor fruit m good, and sometimes more. . ? m -. J A sure oure for pear tree blight? for every one that dies set out two. A pretty good remedy for poach yelloWa, also. From the fact that tobaooo stems contain a no small per oent of niteo> . /< gen, phosphorio acid and phosphorous^ they make an excellent plant food, especially for garden and fruit crops. Their prioe is but nominal. It is a good plan to mix arid compost them with horse manure. It is olaimed that a pair of old birds with a nest of young will, in -iho pro* cess of a day's feeding, destroy nearly 1000 insects. Multiply this by the ? great number of insectivorous birds in our fields and forests, and we eaa get j an approximate idea of the helpful protection afforded our agricultural 4 interests. A large number of orchards hart . '^ never naid. and never wilL The most common cause is starvation, for the - Xig average farmer who plants an orohard or buys one goes on treating the land ' '-rJHj as if sneh a thing did not exist He crops the ground, in rotation or out * of it until it is a wonder that hit ^ orchard lives at all. i -! Why does any one advocate thai ap- / pie orchards should be set to grass! Why are they not cultivated and fertilized just as orange and lemon orchards? Farmers go to great trouble and expense to plant apple orchards, and willingly cultivate them until they begin to bear, and then expect nature to keep them producing bountifully. Apple trees are slow in comihg into bearing, and a crop of peach tree* planted between the rows will live their shorter life, hearing several 'i crops of fruit, and be oat of the way before the apples crowd them greatly.' JJ The latter will protect the peach trees, while the peaches will cheok growth f in the apple3 and induce earlier fruit* age. Do not forget that to make a success of fruit growing or anything elaet ' J for that matter, requires that clow ^ attention be given to detail, and that lots of intelligent, well (iiredfted labor be expended. Trees and plants wil not take care of themselves, and th? man who is the best posted will be th< one to win. To get posted and kee{ posted, read the horticultural matter; m