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never gTain or grass, and when the apple begins to bear, seed to clover, 

 but give the peach clean culture always, and sow cow peas or other 

 cover crop in fall. 



SPRAYING. 



We must spray if we would get away with the canker worm, codling 

 moth and other insects ; also for scab and fungous diseases. My experi- 

 ence is light, as I am a beginner in spraying for the latter, but the 

 authorities are sure and the experiments facts, and facts are stubborn 

 things, and we can't get around them. We may run up against them 

 and we may get hurt by them, but we had better accept them and act 

 accordingly. 



HARVESTING. 



Gather the fruit carefulh-. Don't say the apples are hard and the 

 grass is soft and time is precious. Time is never too precious to do 

 things right, to do them well. It took thousands of years to plant a coal 

 mine. I haven't time. We have all the time there is. One moment 

 succeeds another so quickly we cannot grasp them ere they are gone. 

 What was, a moment since, the future, is now the present, and already it is 

 numbered with the past, so quickly flies the time away. A friend said 

 to me a few days ago when I remarked I had so much work crowding 

 me I hadn't time : "See here, Brother Darche, a good while ago I 

 made up my mind that I couldn't do all the work there was to be done, 

 and I would have to let the other fellow help me do some of it, and 

 since that I like it so well that I let him do more and more, and I take 

 a rest once in awhile. I commend it to you." Now, friends, let the 

 other fellow do some of it, if we can't do it all, but do it well, do it 

 thoroughly, if it takes a leg. 



MARKETS AND MARKETING. 



Have a good local market. Don't ship to Chicago if you can get 

 a fair market in Kansas City. But if Kansas City plays out, rush it 

 to where people will appreciate a good thing — Chicago, St. Paul, Denver, 

 Galveston, New York, England. I have shipped apples from Michigan 

 to Chicago, from Missouri to San Antonio, and from Kansas to Pueblo, 

 and made money each time. — American Truck Farmer. 



