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F, at lower end. As it 

 stands it indicate a slant 

 of 2 1/^ inches per 3 feet. 

 If outside edge is made 

 perfectly square, you may 

 use it as an horizontal 

 level and as a square also. 

 Fig. 702 represents a 

 level something like Fig. 

 700, only two of the up- 

 rights B at right hand of 

 illustration are 2 ft. longer 

 which allows the plumb 

 bob to swing much further at one end so you may guage a much steeper grade. 

 The illustration shows a slant of 5^ feet per 10 feet. The longer you make 

 the uprights B the more spare you have for marking the inches on F. 



Montreal, Que. O. Gagnon. 



UnfePmented Wine. — Take perfectly ripe native grapes, pick from stems, 

 discard all imperfect berries. Mash slightly (not mash seed), press out the juice 

 by any of the known methods and separate the juice from the pulps by straining 

 through coarse cloths, or otherwise. Then add 1^ lbs. white sugar to each 

 gallon of must or juice. Boil in a copper or brass kettle for 40 minutes, then 

 remove from fire and filter again so as to remove all sediment. Filtering paper 

 kept by druggists is best to filter through. The filtering is slow but perfect. 

 After filtering and when juice is cool, put in strong bottles, cork and wire similai 

 to pop soda. A cool cellar where the temperature is regular and does not freeze 

 in winter is the best place to keep wines. — Farm and Home. 



The Time to Plant Evergreens. — Evergreens differ from deciduous 

 trees in the fact that there is no time of year when they are not evaporating a 

 considerable amount of water through their foliage. But this evaporation is 

 greater at some times than at others, the largest amount being from the new 

 growth in early spring and summer. As a consequence of this evaporation there 

 is unusual call upon the roots for moisture. If the soil is warm and moist new 

 roots put out rapidly. At the beginning of the new growth, or a little before, it 

 is therefore the best time to plant evergreens. We notice that some leading 

 nurserymen advise planting evergreens late in summer or early fall. Their argu- 

 ment is that the soil is then warmer and in better condition to stimulate cool 

 growth than it is earlier. We do not doubt that with care evergreens may be 

 successfully planted in August or September, but there is then a considerable 

 new growth of leaves which must be checked by transplanting. It would seem 

 to be much like planting deciduous trees in midsummer. It may be done, bu 

 there must be more chances of failure than if the experiment be tried in late 

 spring before any new growth had been made. — American Cultivator. 



