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J. S. HARRIS. 



Kven oa a well managed fruit farm there ia never a time when it 

 may be said that there is nothing^ to be done, nor should there be a 

 corresponding- time when all hands are put to the extreme limit of 

 endurance by the rush of work. If everything has been done in its 

 season and on time, there will be occasional days that may be prof- 

 itably devoted to rest and recreation, and there is no season of the 

 year when such rest and recreation is more needed than iust now — 

 and there is a good opening for it. The strawberry and raspberry 

 harvest are over, and the blackberries are not crowding, This rest 

 and recreation is best afforded by a visit to noted fruit farms or 

 spending now and then a day with fishing or picnic parties. 



August is best of all months for killing- weeds. Thistles, mullens, the 

 docks and other noxious plants may be eradicated with one effort- 

 They should be cut off just below the surface of the ground, before 

 any seeds mature, and if there is danger that any of the seeds are 

 mature enough to grow, the weeds should be piled and burned. 

 Not only should they be removed from among growing crops but 

 from the pastures, wood lots and fence lines; also from all road- 

 ways. Where neighbors do not follow an example of this kind set 

 them, an appeal to the town supervisors to enforce the weed laws 

 will generally bring it about. 



The apple crop this year in tnany of our orchards is light, there 

 being scarcely enough fruit to afford feeding and breeding places 

 for insects. Future interest deinandvS that as good care should be 

 given the orchard as in the most fruitful years. In cases where 

 pigs cannot be turned in to devour the fallen fruit, it should be 

 picked up and destroyed. Tack pieces of old carpet, bagging or 

 any old cloths or paper or hay bands about the trunks of bearing 

 apple trees. Take them off about once in ten days, kill the worms 

 found under them and replace, and the next year's crop of apple 

 worms will be greatly reduced. It is not unlikely that in many 

 orchards the beetle that makes the borers deposited eggs about the 

 latter part of June, that have since hatched out minute grubs which 

 are now eating their way through the bark to the sap wood to spend 

 the next one to three years in making burrows under the bark and 

 through the wood, which means premature death of the trees. 



