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How shall I know what combination to use ? Only by observation and 

 study, and this is possible only when knowing of what any combination is com- 

 posed. Having that knowledge, and carefully observing the effect produced, it 

 is possible to trace cause and effect. If, in connection with this practice, the 

 farmer or horticulturist carefully studies the results of the Experiment Station 

 investigations, much will be learned of the general principles of such experi- 

 ments ; and, knowing the conditions and needs of his own locality, he can 

 intelligently, and, therefore, more successfully, apply those principles to his own 

 business. — Rept. Mass. Hort. Society. 



A TWO-WHEELED BOAT. 



Every time you see the old mowing machine beside the road useless and 

 a detriment to the scenery, remember that it may be transformed very easily 

 into a great labor-saver. Draw it on to the barn floor some wet day and take 

 it apart by using wrenches. Remove the wheels and have your nearest black- 

 smith lengthen the main axle enough to accommodate your biggest stone-boat 

 between the wheels when they have been returned to their places. Then have 

 him make a couple of clamps to fit over the axle and bolt down on the reves. 

 In attaching the boat see that it does not balance, but has a tendency to ride 

 on its nose. Then when loaded and under motion the entire weight will come 

 upon the wheels. This work should not cost more than 60c. to 75c., and will 

 greatly facihtate the drawing of heavy loads for which a boat is commonly used. 

 A most excellent dray has been made by putting the axle within one foot from 

 the rear end, and suspending the forward end to a stick of oak timber 4x4 

 inches and swinging this end under the centre of axle No. 2 belonging to still 

 another old mower. These arrangements greatly lessen the draft. This second 

 axle need not be lengthened. It is easy to fasten sideboards to this low-down 

 contrivance by bolting sticks to them which run through staples fastened to the 

 sides of the boat. For moving sand, earth, stones, for picking up stones, etc., 

 it has no equal. — Farm and Home. 



StPawbePPies. — The varieties mostly grown for market are Bubach No. 

 5, Haverland, Warfield, Crescent. Sharpless, Beder \Vood, Parker Earle, Candy's 

 Prize, Cumberland and Lovett's Early. Pickers are supplied with stands that 

 hold six baskets, and are made with legs like a stool, about six to eight inches 

 long, nailed on each corner and fitted with a handle made from an old hoop. 

 The pickers are required to bring the berries to the packing shed when the stand 

 is full, and the packer enters the number of baskets opposite each picker's name 

 on a book kept for that purpose At the close of the day's picking, the packer 

 reads out the number of baskets each one has picked during the day. Some 

 growers use the card, and punch out the number of baskets each time, the picker 

 keeping the card. Our plan has always been satisfactory to us. — R. N. Y. 



