1-1:8 State Horticultural Society. 



is profitable. The raspberry is a luxury that no farmer should, deny 

 himself. I wonld plant 100 improved black cap. They are always on 

 hand with the season, and are excellent for canning. A blackberry patch 

 should find space on every farm. While the Snyder is not quite as large 

 as some other varieties, it is the best in quality and always there. So 

 winter has ever frozen the tip of a cane for me; all others that I have 

 tried have been injured or killed by severe winters, but the Snyder never 

 fails. It is the all-purpose blackberry. By all means have a good patcli 

 of Snyder. Give a place also to gooseberries and currants. For setting 

 trees, have the ground well prepared with plow and subsoil, set either fall 

 or spring, or l)oth. Go to the nursery and select your trees with care. 

 Two or three year old trees are the best age for transplanting. Pay no 

 attention to ignorant and irresponsible ''tree dealers," representing them- 

 selves as agents for some nursery. The county has lost thousands of 

 dollars by listening to these agents. If there is no home nursery within 

 a day's drive of you, make out your bill and send it to some responsible 

 nurseryman. He will take pleasure in filing your order and shipping 

 them to you in good condition. Set your apple trees with care, about 

 twenty feet apart; cultivate the young trees well, and look after the 

 borers. Protect against rabbits and do not pasture your cows in a young 

 orchard and when your trees reach the proper age you will be rewarded 

 for all your labor and care. 



Vocal Solo.- — He Has Plowed His Last Furrow. S. E. Bruff. 



HOW TO KEEP THE BOYS OX THE FARM. 



By J. C. Evans, Harlem, Mo. 



It would seem to all who read and talk that this subject would some- 

 time become threadbare, yet until we have discovered a remedy we must 

 continue to write about it, talk about it and discuss it, although when 

 some of the brightest minds in the countrv have exhausted their abilitv 



