XL. — A Great Scheme 



I HAVE just discovered a new and effective way 

 of gathering burrs, which I take pleasure in 

 passing along to farmers who may happen to 

 read this column. Along the Government 

 drain at the end of the young orchard there was a 

 luxuriant growth of burdocks this year. I never 

 saw them without making up my mind to cut them — 

 some other time. They throve lustily, and as I was 

 always a week behind my work I never found time to 

 cut them, so in due season they ripened and devel- 

 oped a crop of especially clinging burrs. Occasion- 

 ally I gathered a few of these burrs when hunting 

 for rabbits, and Sheppy gathered quite a few, but 

 not enough to lessen the supply very materially. 

 But one day last week the two horses and two colts 

 got into the orchard because some one had care- 

 lessly left the gate open. They had been there some 

 time before they were discovered — but their work was 

 done. They had gathered every burr in the orchard. 



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