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BETTER FRUIT 



May 



UNION PACIFIC 



follows the flag 



Union Pacific System 

 stands able and glad to 

 give to the Nation the 

 same supreme service 

 in time of war as in 

 time of peace. 



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all of the pruning in the winter time. 

 All of the sunnner pruning done has 

 resulted in injury to the plants. Some 

 growers report fair success with sum- 

 mer pruning, but the general indica- 

 tions are that summer pruning will 

 result in injury to the plants, while in 

 a very few cases it resulted in a definite 

 benefit to the plants or to the crop 

 produced. 



Where summer pruning is done the 

 best system is to cut off the top bud 

 when the vines reach the height de- 

 sired. This will cause them to send out 

 lateial branches. If the work is done 

 early enough and the latter part of the 

 season is di'y enough, the side l)ranches 

 will mature and suffer very little from 

 winter injury, but if the work is not 

 done early and the land dried sulli- 



ciently to stop growth, winter injury 

 will result. Some patches have been 

 practically killed by the late summer 

 pruning. — O. M. Morris, Horticulturist, 

 Experiment Station, Pullman, Wash- 

 ington. 



On Apple Eating. 

 Do you know what you are eating 

 when you cat an apple? You are eating 

 gallic acid, one ol the most necessary 

 elements in human economy. You are 

 eating sugar in the most assimilaiile 

 forni, combined carbon, hydrogan and 

 oxygen caught an<l iini)iisoned from the 

 sunshine. You are eating a gum allied 

 to the "fragrant medicinal gums of 

 Araby." And you arc eating phosphorus 

 in the only form in which it is available 

 as the source of all brain and nerve 



energy. In addition to all these, you 

 arc drinking the purest of water and 

 eating the most healthful and desirable 

 fiber for the required "roughness" in 

 food elements. The acids of apple 

 diminish the icidity of the stomach and 

 prevent and cure dyspepsia. They drive 

 out the obnoxious matters that cause 

 skin eruptions and thus are nature's 

 most glorious conii)lexion makers. They- 

 neutralize in the blood the deleterious 

 elements that poison the brain and 

 make it sluggish. The contained phos- 

 phorus is not only greater than in any 

 other form of food, but it is presented 

 in a shape for innnediate use by the 

 brain and nerves, where it may flash 

 into great thoughts and great deeds. 

 The ancients assigned the apple as the 

 food for the gods, and its juices the 

 ambrosial nectar to which they resorted 

 to renew their youth. Men are the gods 

 of today, and the apple is their royal 

 food, the magic renewer of youth. Eat 

 a rich ripe apple every day and you 

 have disarmed all diseases of half their 

 terror. — Exchange. 



Flag Etiquette. 



1. The proper time for raising the flag 

 is sunrise or after, never before. 2. The 

 flag must be lowered at sunset. 3. In 

 draping the flag against the side of a 

 room or building, the proper position 

 for the blue field is toward the north or 

 toward the east. It is a mark of dis- 

 respect to allow the flag to fly through- 

 out the night. There is no uniform 

 usage in the display of bunting, but it 

 is just as easy to hang it in tiie correct 

 fashion. When buildings are decorated 

 in bunting draped horizontally, the red 

 should be at the top, according to a 

 letter from the War Department pub- 

 lished in the New York Sun: 



"There are no regulations prescribing 

 the method of utilizing bunting for dec- 

 orative purposes, but good taste requires 

 that the order shall be, red at the lop, 

 followed by white, then blue, in accord- 

 ance with the heraldic colors of the 

 national flag." 



A city lad from the densest tenement 

 district was taken to the country by a 

 farmer. A few days later he was called 

 early one freezing cold morning before 

 dawn to harness a mule. The lad was 

 too lazy to light a lantern, and in the 

 dark he didn't notice that one of the 

 cows was in the stable with the mule. 

 The farmer, imi)aticnt at the long de- 

 lay, shouted from the house: "Billy! 

 Billy! What are you doing?" "1 can't 

 get the collar over the mule's head," 

 yelled back the boy. "His ears are 

 frozen." 



The town council of a small Scotch 

 conummity met to inspect a site for a 

 new hall. They assembled at a chapel, 

 and as it was a warm day a member 

 suggested that they should leave their 

 coats there. ".Someone can stay behind 

 and watch them," suggested another. 

 "What for?" demanded a third. "If we 

 are a'gangin' oot t'ligether, whit need 

 is there far any o' us tae watch th' 

 clothes?" 



