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subjected to browsing and horn pruning. Attend to the fence, make L 
it secure and close the gates without delay. 
Dead and broken limbs should be pruned away at once, and the 
wounds promptly covered with paint or grafting wax. Other prun- 
ing had better be delayed until towards spring. 
Nursery stock for next spring’s planting should be put into win- 
ter quarters at once, either by burying ina dry bank out of doors 
or packing away ina cool cellar with sufficient covering to prevent 
drying or freezing of the roots. 
Now is the very best time for pruning and laying down grape 
vines. Our space does not allow of a treatise on methods. How to 
prune depends upon the vine and the person’s knowledge of its 
manner of growth. The most of the present year’s growth has done 
its duty; the buds on the cane are next spring to throw out canes to 
produce wood and fruit. If all are left,there will be many weak 
shoots and little fruit. Of this year’s shoots, cut back one-half of 
them to two or three buds and the remainder to two feet. Stronger 
shoots will be grown and better fruit produced than if all are lefton 
to run wild. Lay down as the pruning is done and cover about the 
time winter begins. There is no better cover than fine soil. 
Lay down and cover tender raspberries early in this month. 
Secure the marsh hay or other covering for the strawberries and 
have it on the ground and ready to apply on short notice when the 
ground begins to freeze up. 
A good coat of manure spread over the asparagus bed at this time 
will prevent the frost going so deep and show good results next 
spring. 
Vegetables stored in pits will need looking after and a gradual 
addition to the covering. Cellars where roots are kept should be 
looked after and kept as cool as possible without admitting frost 
and finally made frost proof when winter sets in. Manuring and 
plowing the garden is stillin order. Good soil should be secured 
and put under cover for the early spring hot beds. 
How TO REPEL FLIES.—A good housekeeper says in the Detroit 
Free Press, she learned a good remedy years ago from her grand- 
mother, when watching her putting bunches of lavendar flowers 
around the room to keep the flies away. She says: “My method is 
simple. I buy five cents worth of oil of lavender at the drug store 
and mix it with the same quantity of water. Then I put it in a com- 
mon glass atomizer and spray it around the rooms where the flies 
are apt to congregate,especially in the dining room,where I sprinkle 
it plentifully over the table linen. The odorisespecially disagreea- 
ble to flies and they will never venture in the neighborhood, though 
to most people it has a peculiarly fresh and grateful smell.” 
There is no such thing as alternate fruit bearing seasons for trees. 
The reason they do not bear in successive years is chiefly from 
the fact that they have been allowed to over-bear the previous year. 
There is as much reason for thinning out the apples and pears, if 
needed, as for hoeing out surplus corn or potatoes. 
