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these off, and add a little more salt, when another 

 lot will rise, and the bushel of potatoes can be readily 

 assorted into different qualities. Potatoes containing 

 the most starch, have the highest food value, and are 

 the best for table use, because of being " mealy " when 

 cooked. 



Cherries in Nebraska. By planting Dyehouse, 

 Early Richmond, Early Morello, Large Montmorency, 

 Ostheim, English Morello and Wragg, a constant 

 succession may be obtained from June 5th to August 

 5th two full months of ripe cherries. 



Red Clover vs. Alfalfa. A prominent farmer 

 near Superior, Neb., after testing both in different 

 localities states that red clover stands the drouth best 

 and is preferable in other ways. 



Susie: "Papa, isn't it murder to kill a hog? 1 ' 

 Papa (a lawyer) : " Not exactly. Murder is assaulting 

 with intent to kill, the other is a killing with intent 10 

 salt." 



Success is a wary thing. It can't be caught with 

 chaff, nor by sitting and waiting for it accidentally to 

 pass our way. He who seeks it must bait his hook 

 with good, honest bait, and rise up early in the morn- 

 ing to drop his line in the stream of faithful endeavor. 



Never grumble at what you can help ; that's your 

 own fault. Never grumble at what you can't help ; 

 that's not your fault. Ergo: Never grumble. 



It is a great deal easier to do work when it ought 

 to be done than to let it get behind even a day. 

 Every day brings its own duties. If these are neg- 

 lected, or if circumstances compel us to postpone 

 them, we must work longer and harder to-morrow to 

 catch up. 



But few people think of the great number of our 

 native flowering trees and shrubs which abound in 

 nearly every State and county, and the use that might 

 be made of them in decoration and ornamentation of 

 the home grounds. 



Recent experiments with Australian salt bush 

 for the reclamation of alkali lands in California have 

 been a success. The plant is said to grow luxuri- 

 antly on the strongest alkali soil, and live stock eat 

 it readily. 



Mr. Kinsell, foreman of Frank Devine's packing 

 house has found a novel way of curing lemons, accord- 

 ing to the following from the California Enterprise : 

 He first carefully grades and selects the lemons, plac- 

 ing them in layers about three deep in large bins, and 

 covers them with almost green alfalfa. The alfalfa 

 sweats the lemons just right, causing them to assume 

 a brilliant color and the rind to become pliable. 



Near the end of the north piers of New York City 

 is the large building of the Pure Food Product Co. 

 They are engaged in manufacturing " cocoanut but- 

 ter," and are turning out 5,000 pounds daily, and in- 

 side of a week their daily output will be 10,000 pounds. 

 The A merican Creamery of N. Y. 



An Iowa dairy paper alleges that while fifteen to 

 twenty-five cows are usually thought to be all that 

 can be properly kept on an 80-acre farm, yet with 

 plenty of alfalfa on a well irrigated farm the number 

 may be increased to fifty or sixty head of cows. 



Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits 

 them all. 



No greater mistake can be made in setting out 

 olives than that of leaving two great a top on young 

 trees. The olive ought to be planted for home use if 

 a man owns only a single acre, for it equals the apple 

 as a useful family tree. Orville Register. 



Apricots will be almost a total failure in Sonoma 

 valley, (Cal.) this season. The trees commenced to 

 blossom a week or two ago and gave promise of a 

 good crop, but for some unknown cause they set in 

 to bleeding and the blossoms dried up and fell off. 

 The Bartlet tpear crop will be short, and it is the 

 opinion of the owner of one of the finest pear orchards 

 in this section that there will be only half a crop. 

 Peaches and prunes promise well, and there will be a 

 good crop of each. 



Rock-a-bye, Lady Bird! on the tree top, 



Eating the apples so green; 

 Catching the San Jose Scale on the hop, 



Leaving the orchard all clean. 



Lady Bird ! Lady Bird ! if you should fail 



On the peach tree to be seen; 

 What shall we do with the San Jose scale? 



Spray him with oil kerosene. 



Good reports are coming into the California State 

 Board of Horticulture regarding the mealy bug de- 

 stroyer which has been distributed about the state re- 

 cently. It proves to be a very efficient agent in rid- 

 ding orchards of the pestilential mealy bug, and those 

 having orchards affected by that pest should ask 

 Professor Craw for a colony of his "Rough on Mealy 

 Bugs"; we do not remember the name of it. 



A remarkable slaughter of fish along the gulf coast 

 of Texas by the cold weather of February is noted. It 

 is estimated that in the shallow bays south of the mouth 

 of the Brazos river fully 35,000 tons of fish perished 

 from cold. The shores have been lined with dead 

 fish for more than a month. 



In Chicago to-day the retail meat markets are pay- 

 ing 8c. per pound for meat they bought for 4^c. last 

 fall. 



In traveling over Eastern Nebraska the absence of 

 weeds is now favorably commented on. Is this a 

 compensation for the partial failure of crops last 



season? 



. Mr. H. G. Hubbard, the entomologist of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, is authority for the state- 

 ment that the cold weather which desolated the 

 gardens and orange groves of Florida killed unnum- 

 bered millions of injurious insects. The young scale 

 insects which had not passed their second molt were 

 killed, although many eggs survive, and some adults 

 of both sexes. The nitidulid beetles in decaying 

 fruit were killed, small gnats in flowers were frozen, 

 and not a living colony of plant-lice is to be seen on 

 any orange or other tree. But for the fact that the 

 destructive white fly (Aleyrodes Citri) infest the Cape 

 jessamine as well as the orange, this pest would also 

 be killed off; therefore Mr. Hubbard advises orange- 

 growers to cut down and burn their jessamines. 



