Plant out your young plants in the late afternoon, so as to 

 give them the cool night to get located and established. I have seen 

 people planting out young plants in the blazing sun, and not 

 watering them for hours. I always water as I plant out. In 

 watering gardens, I see the yard boys sprinkling the surface and 

 know that the water does not penetrate two inches and never 

 reaches the roots. It is better to give a garden a good soaking 

 once a week than a daily imitation of a watering which dries out 

 in a few hours. Get the water deep into the soil. As soon as 

 the flowers are done blooming cut them off. If the dead flowers 

 are not removed from the plant, it will soon cease blooming. 

 Vegetables, I treat in the same manner, but there is not so much 

 necessity to start in boxes, as the seeds are usually larger and 

 hardier than flower seeds, but I raise lettuce, parsley, celery and 

 onions in boxes first, and then plant out. 



*Keproducecl by permission of the author. 



WHY GENERAL PERSHING'S HORSE WAS HELD IN 

 QUARANTINE. 



When it became known in New York and Washington that 

 General Pershing would not be allowed to make his triumphal 

 march through the principal thoroughfares of the many cities, 

 which had prepared a glorious "Welcome Home" for him, at 

 the head of the returning heroes, mounted on his famous horse, 

 "Kidron," on which thousands of oflicers and men had seen him 

 throughout his campaigns in France and Belgium, so many 

 protests against "Kidron" being sent to quarantine were voiced, 

 that the Federal Department of Agriculture felt constrained to 

 issue to the press a circular of information, from which the fol- 

 lowing paragraphs are quoted : 



''Kidron," the horse that General Pershing rode to victory in 

 the world war, began his career as a laurel wreath collector by 

 getting in quarantine. 



It is not that ''Kidron," so far as anybody knows, has 

 any infectious disease, but simply that he may have any equine 

 disease, he must stay at the port of entry for five months, until 

 the government veterinarians know that he is a safe animal to 

 be at large. "Kidron" will remain at Newport News for 140 

 days. 



The position taken by the Department of Agriculture is that, 

 under no circumstances, can sentiment be permitted to interfere 

 with the protective measures that have been worked out, slowly 

 and sometimes precariously, for the protection of the livestock 

 interests of the country. "Kidron" might possibly be affected 

 with glanders or farcy, dourine, distemper or strangles, epizootic 

 lymphangitis, or some other disease which may or may not be 

 present in the United States. But, whether or not the disease 

 that he might have exists at this time in this country, the proba- 

 bility would be that, traveling around the country as he would, 



