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If we can produce a cross between the Fuggle and Cluster, so as to 

 bring our hops on ten days earlier, we would accomplish a great thing, 

 for, as it now is, we are always caught in the midst of harvest by 

 heavy rains and often, as this year, by a late attack of lice, which 

 can not be fought, because they enter the burr out of reach. 



For the past three years I have irrigated one of my hop fields, con- 

 taining thirty acres, during early July, by means of a centrifugal pump 

 and a threshing engine, which threw a stream one foot wide and deep 

 continuously for one week. This water was conducted in furrows be- 

 tween each row and allowed to soak the soil. Although this field was o.i 

 bottom land, which would not be supposed to require the water, we 

 found the effect to be wonderful, for although done rather too late each 

 year, it nearly doubled the yield, and the expense per pound was 

 trifling. There are hundreds of yards which are well situated for 

 irrigating here, which would find a good wetting at blossoming and 

 burring time very profitable. 



Having finally gotten his hops into the bale, the grower is ready to 

 sell, and here he finds a situation of complete pandemonium, for each 

 farmer competes with his neighbor in his effort to sell, with the result 

 that the market is soon demoralized. If the crop could be sold under 

 some such organization as exists with the Hood River apple men much 

 more satisfactory results would be realized, and the trade is awaiting 

 the man who can successfully organize the hop gi'owers so that they 

 may sell with at least a little judgment. 



HINTS ON HOME DECORATIONS. 



By E. P. Drew, Oakland, Oregon. 



The use of shrubs and plants, tastefully arranged, increases the 

 value of the home greatly, both as a money value and for association. 

 Most of us can remember the trees and flowers of our childhood, but 

 fail to remember the house as well. 



There is no rule to guide us in laying out a plantation, only keeping 

 in mind the habits and growth of such plants as we intend to use, always 

 setting the farthest back the strong growers, planting the dwarf sorts 

 nearest the view, so as to extend the view apparently to the eye. Single 

 specimens on the lawn should be of the very best, as a mistake creates 

 a bad impression. A few of the best for this purpose are: Cut-leaf 

 Birch, Weeping Beach, Weeping Willow, Camperdown Elm, Weeping 

 Mountain Ash, the upright .Juniper, Golden Yew, Colorado Blue Spruce, 

 Dwarf Arber Viteas, Variagated Cypress. All these are easy to grow 

 requiring only the care you would give in planting out a fruit ti-fe 

 in good shape. 



