I5 2 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ways be propagated on its own roots. There are some varieties 

 that can be propagated by working on crossed species. Kieffer 

 pears on short pieces of apple roots, using long scigons, will root 

 from the scion. The wild native crab was susceptible of marked 

 changes, and the raising of seedlings should be encouraged. 

 Thought the state society should offer a premium for improvement 

 in our native crabs. They often brought $1.00 per bushel, to be 

 ccoked with others to give aromatic flavors. 



The paper by Mrs. Franklin Johnson, "How to Keep the Girls 

 on the Farm," was full of sharp practical suggestions. She read 

 many very interesting letters from farmers' daughters. One said: 

 "Give the girls something to do. An interest in the poultry yard, 

 or certain plats of fruit should be put under their care and man- 

 agement. Then they will gradually fall into the way of caring for 

 and become interested in the belongings of the home and farm — 

 something belonging to herself." Many tire of the farm through 

 misdirected education. Truly, idleness breeds discontent. She 

 should be a trained mistress of all farm life among congenial friends. 

 The system of constant drudgery has often turned the girls from 

 the ways of the farm. No isolated farm should be without its tele- 

 phone — this for economv and sociability. It is as well adapted to 

 farm life as to city business. Educate your girls from earliest child- 

 hood to take an interest in rural development and good magazines 

 and papers, not that class of yellow covered, trashy stuff that always 

 lead.-, away from the enjoyable features of home and real friends. 



"Fathers and husbands, if you want to keep the wives and 

 girls on the farm, you must spruce up; wash your buggy now and 

 then, change your clothes and not go in the working garb of 

 every day life when you go to town with the wife or daughters, 

 dressed for the occasion. The contrast is too perceptible." 

 (To be continued.) 



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