290 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The desire of creature comfort is common to both classes of soil 

 cultivators. That gratified, one class looks for more acres, more 

 wheat, more horses, more corn, more hogs— or, rather, he looks 

 through all these, as spectacles, and sees more money. The other 

 sees more beauty, more artistic skill, and has a higher appreciation 

 of the things which delight the eye, gratify the taste, exalt the mind 

 and touch the soul. The ultimate aim of each is happiness. Which 

 is following the right road? It cannot be domatically asserted that 

 either is wholly right. The two objects in view generally overlap 

 and intermingle, and that is right. There are very few farmers who 

 do not take some pains to have at least one beauty spot on their 

 premises, which they enjoy and try to make more attractive every 

 year, and who do not hope to be able in the future to devote more 

 time to such features; on the other hand, no horticulturist would 

 refuse to hold out his hand to calch an odd dollar that might fall to 

 him by the way of profit or in payment of his work — indeed, that is 

 a part of his plan. Let him learn from the farmer to plan still more 

 and work more for the universal medium of exchange, whereby he 

 can obtain some good outside of his own little, self-imposed limita- 

 tions; let the farmer learn that there are many springs of pleasure 

 that do not break out from the barren rock at the waving of a golden 

 wand. They must come, if they come at all, in response to th^ 

 working of his own fertile brain and his own well-planned and well- 

 directed efforts to better his enviroments and to elevate himself and 

 his family to a higher plane of life. 



The man who is carrying on a quarter section, noticing a well 

 kept garden, with its corn a foot high, rank and luxuriant, on the 

 15th of June, while his yellow and sickly corn is only high enough 

 to mark the rows, and, three months later, seeing that garden patch 

 yield a crop of seventy-five bushels per acre, while he has nothing 

 but nubbins, must begin to comprehend the fact that there is some- 

 thing wrong about his tillage, and, if wise, will profit by the hint 

 that his neighbor silently throws out. 



The gardener seeing the economy of long rows and machine work, 

 will leave the little oblong patches and raised beds to his more anti- 

 quated brethren across the water. 



So,while the vocations will always be distinct, the followers of each 

 must be continually gaining new ideas from the other and putting 

 them into successful practice, advancing toward a higher culture, 

 a nobler life and grander civilization. 



Getting Rid of Ants. — Make holes with a crowbar or conveni- 

 ent stick, from six inches to one foot deep and about fifteen inches 

 apart, over the hill or portion of the lawn infested by the ants and 

 into each hole pour two or three teaspoonfuls of bisulphide of car- 

 bon, stamping the dirt into the hole as soon as the liquid is poured 

 into it. The bisulphide of carbon at once vaporizes and, permeating 

 the ground, destroys the ants but does not injury the grass. One 

 should remember while using this substance that it is highly in- 

 flammable and should not bring near it a flame or even a lighted 

 cigar. — Massachusetts Experiment Station. 



