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will lind ;i home market takinj^' ever)' 

 day (juarts upon (juarts at hi{;h prices. 

 Every dollar expended will save two 

 in meat and medicine bills. ;\t home 

 anc] at school fruit is better for chil- 

 dren than cake and pie, and the 

 table the year round should be sup- 

 plied with fruit, either fresh or 

 canned. In the latter form raspber- 

 ries retain their flavor best of all. 

 Farmers say they can buy better 

 than to raise, but they never buy 

 enough. In my own family — not 

 large — we use si.x to ten quarts of 

 small fruits daily from June to Au- 

 gust. A friend with a half-acre city 

 lot had it plowed and fertilized, and 

 planted S26 worth of plants, kept 

 account of expenses for five years, 

 with credit at market rates for fruit 

 consumed ; the profit was ^160 annu- 

 ally. Every farm and home should 

 have such a half acre, and then will 

 be found health and happiness, as 

 well as money, in small fruit. — J. H. 

 Hale. 



Planting Tree Seed. 



My way has always been a suc- 

 cess. Ten days before planting I 

 put the seed in a vessel large enough 

 to allow it to swell. I cover it with 

 water that is daily renewed for five 

 to eight days, or till the seed is well 

 swelled. I next saturate a cloth 

 large enough to cover the seed antl 

 turn the seed out and mix it well at 

 least once a day. Be sure to keep 

 the cloth wet. Keep the vessel in a 

 warm place if possible, unless it be 

 quite warm weather, and in two or 



three days the seed will be well 

 sprouted and fit to plant. 



Walnuts (jf all deciduous seed need 

 the most pains, or rather the plan is 

 difterent. The best way is to put 

 them in the ground when picked 

 from the tree, but always observe the 

 following rules : Place them under 

 four or five inches of soil all together 

 in a bunch, and they should be in a 

 very damp place. Then keep them 

 well soaked with water for three 

 weeks, and occasionally through the 

 winter throw on water. By May ist 

 some of them will be sprouted. All 

 that are not sprouted put into a bar- 

 rel in the sun and turn the barrel 

 daily for two or three days, then 

 look at them. Most of them will be 

 sprouted. If any are not water 

 them, and put these through the 

 same process and nearly every one 

 will grow. Cover them two inches 

 deep when planting in heavy soil, 

 and deeper in light soil. I have 

 made it a business. — (i. C. Hulee, 

 Merrick County, Neb. 



The relative hardness of woods is 

 calculated by the hickory, which is the 

 toughest. Estimating this at 100, we 

 get for pignut hickory, 96; white oak, 

 84 ; white ash, 77 ; dogwood, 75 ; 

 scrub oak, 73 ; white hazel, 72 ; apple 

 tree, 70 ; red oak, 69 ; white beech, 65 ; 

 black walnut, 65 ; black birch, 62 ; 

 yellow and black oak, 60 ; hard maple, 

 56 ; white elm, 58 ; red cedar, 56 ; 

 cherry, 55 ; yellow pme, 54 ; chestnu', 

 52 ; yellow poplar, 51 ; butternut and 

 white birch, 43 ; and white pine, 35. 



