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Kerosene Emulsion. 



Hard soap, )4 pound. 



Boiling water, i gallon. 



Kerosene, 2 gallons. 



Dissolve the soap in the water, add the kerosene, and churn with a pump 

 for 5-10 minutes. Dilute 10 to 15 times before applying. For insects which 

 suck, cabbage worms, and all insects which have soft bodies. — Bulletin of Cor- 

 nell University Experiment Station. 



BePPy Basket Holder. — The accompanying illustration shows my device 

 for holding two-quart boxes while picking raspberries, which has given me great 

 satisfaction. Everyone who sees it in use praises it, and pickers take to it like 

 a duck to water. B is a |4-inch iron rod drawn to a point so as to be easily 

 inserted into the earth. It has a handle. A, and is flattened 

 at E E, where two holes are made to screw the rod to the 

 box. The bore should be made large enough for the boxes 

 to be taken in and out easily. The two slats shown at 

 D D are better to hold up the boxes than a solid bottom. 

 The front of the box is cut away so as to facilitate handling 

 the boxes when full of fruit. The box should be made of 

 light, thin wood, but the back piece should be of hard 

 wood, so that the screws will hold fast. I pay fifteen cents 

 each to the blacksmith for the rods. The boxes cost 

 nothing but a little time on a stormy day. These boxes 

 keep the fruit out of the dust and dirt, and save stooping. — F. Harmer, Mich. 



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Rose Culture. — You can succed with roses as with other shrubs, giving 

 but little time to their care, but that care must be in the line of the needs of the 

 plant. Three "plenties" are absolutely essential to success in growing roses — 

 plenty of sunshine, plenty of water, and plenty of manure. They will not flourish 

 in gravelly soil, nor in its opposite, clayey soil. Good loam is the thing. If 

 the soil be already poor, spade in barn manure about it, then cover a place 

 as large round as a wash tub, with the manure three or four inches deep about 

 each rose bush ; a half wheelbarrow load to a bush is none too much. This 

 mulching is better done in the fall than spring, but it will do good now. In 

 dry seasons, the bush must be watered freely ; wash water is good. Except with 

 yellow roses, it is the new growth that blossoms, so cut your bushes back to 

 within a foot of the ground, that will give the new growth a better chance. Rose 

 bushes should be set where the sun can cast its rays freely upon them. Persian 

 insect powder, used with a little blower, such as are sold at the stores, and blown 

 over and under the leaves, will kill the white lice ; white hellebore, such as is 

 used on currant bushes, will kill the slugs (worms). Three or four applications 

 in the season usually suffices. Your eyes and heart will be delighted with the 

 result. — Connecticut Farmer. 



