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condition. Nearly all of these fruits are raised in superabundance in this 

 country, and the hardy varieties will stand shipment well enough to enable 

 merchants to place them upon sale abroad in excellent condition. Our fast 

 steamers enable shippers to place the fruits on the English stands within seven 

 and eight days from the time of picking. 



Australia is rapidly coming to the front as a rival agricultural country to 

 this, and it is time that fruit growers of the United States made some concerted 

 action to place the great variety of our fruits in the English market. Only the 

 soundest, freshest and properly picked and packed fruits will do for this trade, 

 but these under the direct control of a good fruit association could be made 

 profitable. Fruit growers need to combine together for such a work far more 

 than they do for political purposes. On the whole the American farmer and 

 horticulturist is far behind the manufacturer in introducing his goods in foreign 

 markets. He has been so absorbed in the work of raising fine fruits that he 

 has forgotten to exercise his Yankee genius in disposing of them to the best 

 advantage. — Germantown Telegraph. 



Weeds always have been and still are the closest friends and helpmates of 

 the farmer. It was they which first taught the lesson of tillage of the soil, and 

 it is they which never allow the lesson, now that it has been partly learned, to 

 be forgotten. The one only and sovereign remedy for them is the very tillage 

 which they have introduced. When their mission is finally matured, therefore, 

 they will disappear because there will be no place in which they can grow. It 

 would be a great calamity if they were now to disappear from the earth, for the 

 greater number of farmers still need the discipline which they enforce. Prob- 

 ably not one farmer in ten would till his lands well if it were not for these 

 painstaking school-masters, and many of them would not till at all. Until 

 farmers till for tillage sake, and not to kill the weeds, it is necessary that the 

 weeds shall exist ; but when farmers do till for tillage sake, then weeds will 

 disappear with no effort of ours. Catalogues of all the many iniquities of weeds 

 with the details given in mathematical exactness, and all the botanical names 

 added, are of no avail. If one is to talk about weeds he should confine himself 

 to methods of improving the farming. The weeds can take care of themselves. 

 — L. H. Bailey. 



All Fruits have a medicinal value, and the cranberry ranks as an anti- 

 scorbutic. It is a blood cleanser; bruised and heated, not cooked, it has a 

 healing effect on humors. One cut in half and bound on a corn will cure it in 

 one or more applications. It will be equally eflficacious in the case of pimples. 

 As an article of food the cranberry is too little known. Many families know it 

 only in the form of sauce, but it may be served in many other ways. A cool, 

 refreshing drink may by made by boiling the berries in water double the 

 measure of berries. Boil until the juice has been thoroughly extracted, sweeten 

 with one half-pound of sugar to the pint of juice, and bottle hot. — Greengrocer. 



