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ward the interior of the tree. It was a 

 slower, job than simply cutting off a few big 

 limbs but it has paid me well, as a compari- 

 son with trees not so pruned plainly shows. 

 The apples on the trees on which the wood 

 was carefully thinned out were very large 

 and fine; but on those not so treated they 

 were small and uncolored." 



" And. I/' said another neighbor, '" have 

 had extraordinary results from a very sim- 

 ple method of fertilizing. Some years ago 

 I read in the report of the Ontario Fruit 

 Experimental Stations a recommendation of 

 a treatment for enriching orchard soil ; it 

 was the yearly plowing under of a cover 

 crop of red clover, together with the annual 

 application per acre of 50 lbs. of superphos- 

 phate and 50 lbs. of wood ashes. This was 

 a very economical treatment, and I resolved 

 to try it on the poorest bit of orchard on my 

 farm. The soil was very poor, and for 

 years the fruit produced had been almost 

 worthless. The orchard was chiefly Spy 

 apples and Bartlett pears. I have persisted 

 in this treatrnent every year for about six 

 years, and now this plot is acknowledged to 

 be the best on my farm. Both the Spys and 

 the Bartletts have given me splendid annual 

 crops, the fruit has been large and fine, and 

 more highly colored than in any other part 



of my orchard. I attribute the heightened 

 color to the f)otash." 



EVAPORATING SURPLUS APPLES. 



IN some cases we have no doubt that it 

 would pay the fruit farmer to evaporate 

 his own second grade apples rather than sell 

 them to a company who w'ill only pay him 

 from forty to fifty cents a hundred pounds. 

 The only question is that of hands to do the 

 work. A profitable machine, capable of 

 turning out from 300 to 400 lbs. a day, can 

 be purchased for about $100, and would 

 prove a profitable investment, especially in 

 cases where the family will turn in and help 

 on the work. Evaporated apples sell at 

 about six cents a pound; and since a hun- 

 dred pounds of fresh apples would give 

 about fourteen pounds of dried product, 

 worth about 85 cents, or a little more than 

 40 cents a bushel for the green apples, it is 

 evident that the investment would be a good 

 one. 



McArthy, of the North Carolina Experi- 

 ment Station, does not favor the common 

 method of bleaching apples by furnes of 

 burning sulphur, but advises instead that 

 they be dropped into a tub of weak salt 

 brine, made in the proportion of one pound 

 of clean table salt to sixteen gallons of water, 

 and boiled together for ten minutes. 



EDUCATION AND SUCCESS 



AN uneducated child has one chance m 

 150,000 of attaining distinction as a 

 factor in the progress of the age. 



A common school education increases his 

 chance nearly four times. 



A high school education increases the 

 chance of the common school child twentv- 



three times, giving him eighty-seven times 

 the chance of the uneducated. 



A college education increases the chance 

 of the high school boy nine times, giving him 

 219 times the chance of the common schoo' 

 boy and more than 800 times the chance of 

 the untarained. — The World's Work. 



