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CULTIVATION OF AN ORCHARD Stirring of Soil Helps to Conserve Moisture - Young Trees Given Longer Period of Growth. ' The apple growers aie nearly all practicing clean cultivation in their orchards, says a writer in Indiana Farmer. This indicates that cultiva tion is the quickest method of bring ing young trees to a bearing age and perhaps it is the best method to pur sue in gaining annual crops. From my own experience and knowledge gained from growers in all parts of the coun try, I am convinced that apple trees set on rolling or nearly level land will come into bearing two or three years earlier if given annual cultivation. It makes very little difference wheth er the land be intercropped or not, provided sufficient fertilizing material is added to grow the extra plants. The stirring of the soil seems to help in conserving the moisture and gives the .young trees a longer period of growth each year than they have under sod methods. It is well to remember that a cover crop should be put in late in the summer to afford the roots some protection from the winter cold. When crops are grown between the trees, something should be raised that can be taken off early enough to allow for this. In the northern sec tions, rye or winter vetch is perhaps best. I think it a good plan to alter nate these for cover in the growing orchard. Farther south there is noth ing that can compare with crimson dorer for this purpose. An orchard bandied after this method makes rapid growth up to the bearing age. I kare continued it after bearing, with the result that some of the trees have formed the habit of annual bearing. To my mind this is most important. With the older orchards, sod meth ods with the grass mulch and annual top dressing of manure produce excel lent results. This means considerably fess work. My experience indicates that cultivation is of value where it can be practiced with convenience. Where the trees are left in sod, the grass should be mowed and left under the trees to hold the moisture. One cannot successfully take a crop of hay sad a crop of apples from the same land, unless heavy fertilization is prac ticed. PRUNE RASPBERRY CANES Object Should Bc to Grow Berries, Not Woody Growth-Cleaning Out Destroys Many Insects. Though the two main varieties of raspberry, black and red, need slight ly different treatment, the time and manner of pruning are greatly similar with both kinds. The blackcaps do not put out new growth from the root stalks, as the xed varieties do, but new plants are started from tins of the old plants. These are bent over and covered light ly in August, after which they send ont rootlets and can be taken up the following spring as new plants, to be set ont where they are needed. These new plants need to be pinched back to a height of 18 inches, so that they will throw out more lateral .branches. These are the branches .which bear fruit, and it is very impor tant that they be numerous. Ia addition to this first pruning, the ?winter or early spring pruning should be done to get rid of the old canes AM, Fine Crop of Raspberries-Result of Careful Pruning. which are past bearing, and which only sap the plant system of its strength. It is the berries that we want to grow, not so particularly the woody canes. This cleaning out of the old wood al so aids in getting rid of many insect pests if the work is done before they come out from shelter in the spring. AU these old canes should be burned to destroy the insect life hidden in and around them. Many do this in the fall, bat the main point is that it be ?one, and at some time before spring growth starts. RELISHES FOR SPRING TEMPTING MENU NEEDED AT THIS SEASON. Condiments Liked in the Winter Have Lost Their Savor and Other* Must Be Provided to Take Their Places. Springtime appetites should be as fresh and unspoiled as is the spring itself. But too often the spring appe tite is dulled and it is only by dint of constant care the housekeeper or cook is able to provide a tempting diet on the spring: table. Winter fare palls at this season. And the usual winter condiments and appetizers fall to work successfully. Mustard pickles, chowchow, cole slaw, olives-all have lost their winter trick of whetting the appetite. Celery has literally lost most of its crispness and sweetness by spring. New appetizers and relishes must be relied on to give point to the dally diet Cucumbers are one reliable spring relish. There is, of course, much ob jection to cucumbers on the ground of indlgestlbility. They are usually indigestible-that nobody can deny. But some people do not find them so, and eat them without fear. So if they are not taboo on your table, make use of them. It is a good plan to slice them thinly and place them in iced water in the refrigerator for an hour before using them. Then dress them with oil and vinegar and serve them with fish. Or dice them and mix them with diced green pep per and celery, with mayonnaise, in cups of lettuce leaves as a salad. Tomatoes, too, can be made to serve admirably the purpose of whetting the appetite. A very good appetizer with which to begin dinner is a round of firm tomato, half an Inch thick, on which is placed pepper, celery or cu cumber, mixed with mayonnaise dressing. Sliced tomatoes, iced in the refrigerator, are another good dinner accompaniment. They may be served with fish or with the meat course. And of course all sorts of tomato salads are delicious in spring. And a goodo sherbet for dinner can be made of equal parts of strained tomato juice and meat stock, to which a little softened gelatin has been added, frozen in an ice cream freezer to sherbet consistency. Radishes should always be served very cold. Clean them and chill them thoroughly in iced water and then cut in attractive shapes. Make roses, sometimes, by cutting back the red skin in points. Again, slash the rad ishes from the pointed end down three or four times. Slice radishes and serve with other vegetables on lettuce leaves for salad. Sweet green peppers are as useful in warm weather as in cold. Chop them and mix with an equal amount of celery, chopped fine, and moisten with mayonnaise. Serve a spoonful on a lettuce leaf for salad, or serve a spoonful on a slice of thin, crisp toast in the form of a canape for an appetizing beginning to dinner. Stuff a pepper, one end of which has been removed, with cream cheese and chopped nuts and slice to serve with salad. Calfs Heart Merely wash oif the blood. One could by soaking extract all the flavor from the heart. Stuff it with veal forcemeat stuffing or a common stuf fing. Tie a buttered paper over the mouth of the heart to keep the stuf fing in place. Put it into a small baking pan with a little hot water, pepper and salt. Bake nearly two hours, basting it very frequently. When done thicken the gravy with flour, strain, skin and season lt and pour it on the dish around heart Gar nish the plate with onion?, first boiled until nearly done, then seasoned with pepper, salt and a little butter and browned in oven. Peach Moon sh I ns. * Take preserved peaches and cut Into tiny pieces till you have enough to fill a teacup. Beat the whites of five eggs to a very ?tiff froth, then add gradually six tablespoonfuls of con fectioners' sugar, beating it hard for 20 minutes; then beat in the peaches and set lt on ice till thoroughly chilled. Put rice, sweetened cream in the glass and liberal portion of the moonshine. Pineapple or other fruit can be served in the same way. Orris Root foi* Laundering. When washing handkerchiefs, break ip a quarter of an ounce of orris root md tie it in a piece of muslin, boiling lt in with the handkerchiefs for a luarter of a:i hour. When dry, iron them carefully, and they retain a delicate violet odor that is very refreshing. Use about three pints of water for this quantity of orris root. Chocolate Fudge. One cupful brown sugar, one cupful white sugar, one-half cupful milk, two squares of chocolate, boil five minutes, not too hard, but keep bolling all over. Just before removing from the fire add a small piece of butter about one-half size of egg. Remove and beat, add a few drops of vanilla, turn into a greaped pan before it gets too hard. Marmalade Sandwiches. Make these just before eating them. Butter white and brown bread and spread with orange marmalade, rather thinly. On each slice of brown bread put a slice of white buttered bread, and on the white put brown slices. Southern Railway Schedule. Premier Carrier of the South Reduced Fares From Edgefield S. C., $13.40 Charlottesville, Va. and re turn. Account Summer School, U of Va. Tickets on sale June 20 to 28 inclusive. Return limit 15 days with privilege of exten sion to Sept. 30, 1915, by depos iting and payment of fee $1.00. $6.05 Rock Hill, S. C. and Return Account Winthrop College Sum mer School. Tickets on sale June 14, 15, 18 and 30, July 1 and 2. Return limit July 81, 1915. I $10.50 Knoxville, Tenn, and re turn. .Account Summer School, U. of Tenn. Tickets on sale June 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, July 2, 3, 10 and 17. Return limit 15 days with privilege extension to Sept. 30, 1915, by depositing and payment fee $1.00. $7.10 Black Mountain, N. C., and Return. On cale special dales in June, July and August 1915, ac count various meetings. Inquire of agents for details. Also Summer Tourist Fares to many resort points. For additional information communicate with J. A. TOWNSEND, Ag't. Edgefield, S. C., or Magruder Dent., Dist., Pa6s. Agent, Augus ta, Georgia. Finds Cure for Epilepsy After Years of Suffering "My daughter was afflicted willi epileptic fits for three years, the attacks coming every few weeks. We err.ployed several doctors but they did her no good. About t year ago we heard of Dr. Miles' Nervino, and it certainly hes proved a blessing to our litt!? girl. Ehe Is now apparentl curtd and is en Joying the bes' of health. It ls over a year si noe she bas had a fit We cannot .peak too highly of Dr. Miles' Nervine." MRS. FRANK ANDERSON, Comfrey, Minn. Thousands of children in tbs la L United States who are suffer^ from attacks of epilepsy ar? -? burden and sorrow to their parents, who would give anything to restore health to the sufferers. Dr. Miles' Nervine is one of thc best remedies known for this affliction. It has proven beneficial in thousands of cases and those who have used it have the greatest faith in it. 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