i68 An American Fruit-Farm 



In Alio. S. F Motas 



Vaetay 



Varies Dardaries Astataries Disunapiter, 



and continue until the free ends of the reed are brought 

 slowly together in front of you. Meanwhile, wave a knife 

 above the reeds, and when they come together and one 

 touches the other, seize them in your hand and cut them 

 right and left. These pieces of reed bound upon a dis- 

 located or fractured bone will cure it. But every day, 

 repeat the incantation, or in place of it this one; 



Huat Hanat Htiat 

 Ista Pista Sista 

 Domiabo Damnaustra. 



This you promptly say is nonsense and superstition, 

 but turning to another bit of advice from Cato, you 

 will discover that he tells you precisely how to 

 plant and care for an olive orchard, how to make a 

 bake-oven, how to raise figs, how to manage old 

 vines, how to feed stock in winter, how to make, 

 store, and when to sell olive oil, how to make bread 

 and to cure hams, how to manage chickens and 

 ducks, how to make wine, and to remove any 

 impleasant odor from it, how to select a farm, 

 how to drain land, and what are the duties of the 

 overseer. This all sounds modem. The matter is 

 well put by Fairfax Harrison: *'0n questions of 

 preventing malady, he had the wisdom of experi- 

 ence, but malady once arrived, he was a simple 

 pagan." 



What would we think of the fruit-farmer who, 



