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HOW TO SPRAY. 



Procure a good pump with plenty of force and the very best nozzles 

 that are to be found in the market. x*\ good nozzle that will throw out 

 plenty of fine mist, the finer the better — is of absolute importance. Poor 

 pumps with scant force and poor nozzles that throw out a coarse spray 

 are absolutely worthless for this purpose, and are excessively costly 

 even as a gift. In applying the Bordeaux mixture, or any other spray, 

 use plenty of force, and be sure to cover every part of the vine, fruit 

 and wood as well as the foliage with as fine a mist as possible, and be 

 careful not to continue to the point of saturation, so that the spray will 

 run and drop. 



This course of treatment faithfully followed will save a crop of 

 grapes in the worst infected vineyard that I have ever known. After 

 from two to four years of this kind of treatment two sprayings in one 

 season will be enough to save your crop in ordinary seasons. We have 

 saved our crop for the past several years with .two sprayings. — Thp 

 Fruitm.an, Mt. Vernon. Iowa. 



TO AUTUMN. 



Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness ! 



Close bosom-friend of the maturing snn : 



Conspiring with him how to load and bless 



With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run ; 



To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees, 



And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; 



To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells 



With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more. 



And still more, later flowers for the bees, 



Until they think warm days will never cease. 



For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells. 



—John Kf-ats. in the Century Magaziiio. 



TEX REASONS WHY PARENTS SHOULD ENCOURAGE 



HOME GARDENING. 



1. W^herever it has been tried, the children have been more willing 

 to stay at home and have taken more interest in the home because they 

 love pretty things. 



2. They have learned to be neat and regular in their work and to 

 take a personal pride in it. that goes a long way toward keeping them 

 good and happy. 



