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pines seem to have been growing ten thousand years. The Club 

 ought not to induce people with limited means to go thither. 

 Rich folks can do well enousfh. 



Remedy for Barren Fruit Trees. 



David Lowe, Norwalk, Conn., wrote to the Club that he had 

 succeeded in rendering several of his barren trees productive by 

 girdling the limbs, being careful not to injure the new bark. In- 

 stances are on record in which the entire bark was stripped off 

 the body of a fruit tree, and the result Avas that the next season 

 the barren tree produced a bountiful crop of fruit. 



The old bark can be removed in June or July, when a new 

 layer of wood is about to be formed, and a new and smooth bark 

 will appear. 



Cabimet Bedstead. 

 Judge Maine, Boston, Mass., exhibited a new cabinet bedstead. 

 This is an ingenious bed, occupying very little space, which can 

 be ventilated; is balanced, can be set "up in any part of the room. 

 Several members spoke of it as likely to be useful, because it is 

 so cheap. 



A Roller Whippletree. 



Mr. S. Edwards Todd, exhibited a roller Avhippletree, for the 

 purpose of showing how a friction roller can be attached to the 

 end of a single whippletree, for the purpose of carrying the whip- 

 pletree past a fruit-tree, when the land is being plowed near the 

 body of the tree. A wooden roller, about five inches in diameter, 

 and an inch or more thick, is secured to the whippletree on the 

 upper side, and the roller extends b^^ond the end of the whipple- 

 tree, so as to encounter the tree instead of the end of the whip- 

 pletree. The periphery of the roller was covered with a belt of 

 India rubber. 



Dr. Peck said no one ought to plow within four feet of fruit- 

 trees, and that cultivation close to the trees should be by hand. 



Mr. R. J. Dodge said this might do for a little garden, but for 

 an orchard, such a notion is behind the age. 



Best Time for Sowing Spring Wheat.. 

 Mr. H. G. Neal, Davenport, Iowa. — After an experience of some 

 15 years in farming on the prairies of this county, I propose the 



