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In my recipe against rabbits I must have made a mistake. 

 Take four pounds of sulphur, half bushel of lime, slack with hot 

 water or soapsuds boiling hot, and stir well, then add half gallon 

 of crude carbolic acid and one gallon of gas tar, stir well w^hile hot. 

 Ready for use when cold. 



For summer use against borers, leave out gas tar and add 

 instead, one gallon of soap. I have tried many remedies to keep 

 rabbits, mice, sheep and borers from trees and found the above 

 much the best one that I ever tried, giving entire satisfaction for 

 the past ?our years on over 4,000 trees of apple, pear, peach and 

 plum. 



I will not say much on the apple as Mr. Liston, of Yirgil 

 City, will be there who is best posted in this country on this sub- 

 ject. It is best to set apple trees shallow, lean towards southwest 

 and head low, prune a little once or twice a year with finger and 

 thumb, wash the bark and keep smooth, keep off rabbits, mice and 

 sheep, cultivate in spring and first part of summer. 



Mulching will cause the roots to grow near the surface, if 

 kept up afterwards. 



THE RASPBERRY— BEST LOCATION AND BEST VARI- 

 ETIES FOR MARKET, 



BY W. M. HOPKINS, KANSAS CITY. 



We live in an age of progress and improvement, and the indi- 

 vidual or community, that does not recognize this fact, and keep 

 abreasi with the times, will soon be lost in the fogs and ruts of old 

 fogyisn. About a quarter of a century ago, the business of raising 

 small fi'uits for market was a very small and unimportant vocation, 

 and wa5 looked upon with much fear and foreboding for future 

 success. Instead of failure what do we see to-day? A grand suc- 

 cess that entitles it to be classed as one of the great and growing 

 commercial industries of the age. To what shall we attribute the 

 great ctange ? To the industry, perseverance and skill of the pro- 

 ducers of the soil, assisted by organized effort and influence of 

 horticultural societies scattered all over the land. A little over a 

 decade igo such a thing as crates and boxes filled with luscious 

 berries vere quite a novelty in the Kansas City market, but now 

 each succeeding season we see thousands of crates sold to consumers 

 by retaibrs and thousands shipped off to seek a market elsewhere. 



