AUSTRALIAN BL ADAPTED T Serries Have Bat Few Seeds 1 Best Shippers on Market for All Purposes and No Crop Moi California ls the home of tho Aus tralian variety of blackberries, an Il lustration of which is shown herewith ?hown as grown by B. S. Kennedy of Sebastopol, Cal., who says: In marketing small fruits I find this to be the most profitable and delicious "berry in cultivation. This strain of blackberry does not grow its roots through the soil like .other varieties, which send up sprouts 'between the rows causing so much trouble, but it sends them downward Into the moist soil, guaranteeing good crops of berries in the dryest seasons when 0:0er kinds often blast, and out side of the hill there is no sprouts, except where the tips of the vines are ?buried for that purpose. The Australian blackberry is adapt ed to all clim;.tes where the tempera ture does not fall lower than 15 de grees below zero. The berries have but few and small seeds, a small soft core which is almost destroyed in cooking; they are very firm, solid and one of the best shippers on the mar kets, and make a fine dried article. In cooking they form a rich delicious eyrup which makes them desirable {or canning and general family pur Australian Himalaya Blackberry _--?ney ripen e?^iy ?nou0li. for "SUpurposes (about the eighth of July-/ .end continue until frost) and grow so much of the ?ruii inside the ?mass of vines causing tedious picking, but every spring they send out long latierais or fruit stems all projecting outside, and hanging down on each .side of tie rows, loaded ".ith berries that are a pleasure to pick, and last' 'but not least, they will yield three tons of berries per acre when only one year old and ever after that will snore than double the yield of !any other berry grown. The exten sive experience I have had as a grow FRlia?^Q?? ' French gardeners sow pumpkins ac?i squashes in April in hotbeds, transplant the seedlings to other hot beds and finally to the open ground tn May. Several days before the planta are set out the holes are dug at a distance of one to two yards, according to the variety. These holes are then filled with thoroughly rotted manure, mixed witn a little potash fertilizer and covered with soil. The foung plants are watered frequently -\CKBERRY IS O ALL CLIMATES rVhich Are Small and Is One o? They Ripen Early Enough Continue Until Frost re Profitable. er of this herry has enabled me to dis cover a method by which ten tons of berries per acre may be grown, and averaged year after year. No crop could be more profitable. Some peo ple are inclined to think that the Giant Himalaya, and Oregon everbearing, and the Australian Himalaya Black berry are all the same variety but the Australian strain of blackberries are entirely distinct from the other two and while the Giant and Oregon ever bearing may do well in Oregon they are almost worthless In California as they are soft small and seedy and un fit for market. SECURING GOOD SUPPLY OF ICE Small Cement House Makes Excel lent Storage Room- Build luz Could bo Built Cheaply. Start the next summer right hy having your own Ice. Unless you do, you will have to pay Ice bills, or, if you can't get ice, hang the milk and butter in the well-both of which are unhappy chores. Put up your own ice. A small cement house, cheaply made, is just the thing in which to store it. This house will last longer and keep the ice better than a frame building of the same construction, says G. M. Pratt, architect .with the Kansas State Agricultural college. Either blocks or cement poured in large molds can be used. The mix ture should be rich enough that the walls will not be porous. Two thin walls re-enforced with rods protected from rust and separated by a three inch air space gives the best combi nation. If blocks are used, large cores will save material and keep the temperature more even. For an average family a building 10 by 20 feet and. 15 feet high is a good Biso. It does not store more than two families Cbti use. Ice keeps better when stored ia such quanti ties, says Mr. Pratt. Such a building could be built for $250. A nehshoorhood could fcUild TIC a little larger th:-.t would do for a:; and the individual expense would be lessened. The ice house may he filled from nearby streams as r?oon as they have tori . io a i-oo-1 rhicknos?. f^r*'?-----v-i " iV*1* -. r . . iryinc -tr>r.? dean?.. <:,-] ... youl'g, t-mc?er. c?ringles3 beans, wash'them, cut oil the stem md blossom ends, cut in one-ir.fh engths, and put their: on plaies or rays prop-red ror the purpose. Cove-r .ii"-, J net io jM?teci. them from Hies, ni put to dry In a strong current of air. * Stir occasionally while drying. .A en thor .?{jnly dri^-' into in sect-pr iof 1 igs, tie securely and keep iu a drv . ell ventilated placp ?Or fu turo us" ' . Some think i-dDS are in> prov*-i w> steami nar