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consumers, there being a splendid demand for them right at home from passers- 

 by, from wealthy farmers in the neighborhood, and callers from villages near 

 by. Then we are nearly always behind orders from rich people in our county 

 seat, who are willing to pay a good price for something that exactly suits them. 

 These are sent in every morning by U. S. mail hack. But we make it a 

 religious duty to eat all of the best we can at home. 



Besides these two acres used in rotation of garden strawberries and clover, 

 we have about an acre of other fruits, raspberries, blackberries, currants, goose- 

 berries and grapes. These three acres are what make life on the farm pleasant 

 and attractive, besides each year they bring in a sum of money that is not to be 

 despised. Since we have learned how to manage them, they do not cause us 

 much worry nor require any great amount of labor. If we were compelled to 

 go back to the old way, and were denied the pleasure and the profit of these 

 three acres, I think that I wouldn't live on the farm at all. — Practical Farmer. 



APPLE-TREE BORERS. 



A writer in Farm and Home says : " For many years I have practised each 

 season, washing my apple trees to secure against the attacks of the tree borers 

 and bark or scale lice, all of which enemies of the apple tree are very widely 

 distributed through the country and no less harmful. I have found that the 

 same specific, applied at the same time, is equally efficient against all the 

 enemies — Saperda Candida, Chrysobothris femorata, and Mytilaspis pomoc- 

 orticis — it goes without saying that we cannot aftbrd to neglect so valuable a 

 remedy. June is the month when the lice hatch, and when the several 

 borers lay their eggs. Hence June is the month to apply the remedy. I 

 always make the application the first week of June, and have some years 

 repeated it the first week of July. I used to use soft-soap, either clear or slightly 

 diluted with water. In this way I kept my trees almost wholly free from the 

 insects, while neighboring trees not treated suffered seriously. Late years I 

 have modified the substance by adding crude carbolic acid. I boil one quart of 

 soft-soap in two gallons of water, and while still hot thoroughly stir in one pint 

 of the acid. This is no better than the soap, only as I have thought it might 

 retain its virtue longer, and so be more efficient in case only one application is 

 to be made. In the use of this, however, we must not touch the foliage or we 

 will destroy it. 



To make the application I roll up my sleeves and by the use of a cloth 

 thoroughly scrub the trunks and main branches of the trees. In this way it 

 takes but a short time to treat an orchard. If any one objects to this hand-to- 

 hand combat he can take a common shoe-brush with a handle, and thus do 

 quick and thorough work. I do not believe any one can afford to neglect this 

 treatment, especially in orchards which are young or just planted. 



