Food foi 

 Plants 



To Revive Ferns. 



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Nitrate of Soda dissolved in water should be given to ferns 

 that are small or weak, one-quarter of an ounce of Nitrate to a 

 gallon of water. One-half an ounce of Nitrate to a gallon of water 

 should be used on plants that are large and vigorous. Soot and 

 salt are also good to use occasionally. 



How to Kill Poison Ivy. 



Spraying with arsenate of soda (one pound to twenty gallons 

 of water) will kill all vegetation. One application, if the plants 

 are young and tender, will do this. In the middle of summer, 

 however, they should be cut down first, and more than one appli- 

 cation given. 



To Find the Number of Plants to the Acre. 



Divide the number of square feet in an acre, which is 43,560 

 by the multiplied distance the plants are set each way. For in- 

 stance: Suppose the plants are set two feet apart and the rows 

 are four feet apart. Four times two are eight; dividing 43,560 

 by eight we have 5,445, the number of plants to the acre when set 

 2 feet by 4 feet. If set 5 by 1, there are 8,712 plants to the acre, 

 etc. 



Results of Saving Small Amounts of Money. 



The following shows how easy it is to accumulate a fortune, 

 provided proper steps are taken. The table shows what would 

 be the result at the end of fifty years by saving a certain amount 

 each day and putting it at interest at the rate of six per cent. : 



Daily Savings. The Result. Daily Savings. The Result. 



One cent $ 950 Sixty cents $57,024 



Ten cents 9,504 Seventy cents 66,528 



Twenty cents 19,006 Eighty cents 76,032 



Thirty cents 28,512 Ninety cents 85,537 



Forty cents 38,015 One dollar 95,041 



Fifty cents 47,520 Five dollars 465,208 



Nearly every person wastes enough in twenty or thirty years, 

 which, if saved and carefully invested, would make a family quite 

 independent; but the principle of small savings has been lost sight 

 of in the general desire to become wealthy. 



