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With their hands and elbows on the piano the 

 deaf mutes "hear" the music through vibrations 



How Deaf Mutes Feel Music Through 

 Their Lungs, Feet, and Heads 



DEAF mutes love music. It thrills 

 them. The accompanying illustration 

 shows four deaf mutes receiving musical 

 vibrations by placing their hands and 

 elbows on the piano while the teacher 

 plays it. The vibrations not only give 

 sensations which enliven the body but they 

 actually stimulate them. The parts most 

 sensitive to vibrations are the chest, head, 

 lungs and feet. "An exciting feeling comes 

 up through the floor," is the way one deaf 

 boy describes it. "Without music I would 

 be lonesome," wrote a little Italian deaf- 

 mute. "It gives me a strong shock through 

 the feet to the head," stated another. 

 Others, when asked to explain their sensa- 

 tions, said: "I feel it in my temples and in 

 my legs," "I feel it through my whole body," 

 and "Ifeel it in my chest and lungs 

 According to teachers of deaf- 

 mutes, musical instruction is 

 more important as an educa- 

 tional factor for the deaf 

 child than it is for the 

 hearing. Of course it is 

 doubtful if the totally 

 deaf child can learn to 

 distinguish pitch or tone, 

 and discord from harmony, 

 in the accepted sense. But 

 there is no question that they 

 feel music and that it stirs their 

 emotions. In the New York Insti- 

 tution for the Deaf, eye rhythm, 

 ear rhythm, body rhythm and 

 motion rhythm are all utilized. 



Planting Strawberries with a New 

 Time-Saving Machine 



STRAWBERRY growers will find 

 that a machine which sets out 

 the plants better than it can be done 

 by hand is a means of saving a great 

 deal of back-breaking work. As 

 three men and a team of horses are 

 able to set out three acres a day 

 with the machine, it also means that 

 the plants may be put into the 

 ground when weather and soil condi- 

 tions are the most favorable. 



One of the men drives the team, 

 while the other two place the plants 

 in the ground in a furrow opened up 

 by a shoe of the kind used on corn- 

 planters. An automatic trip con- 

 nected with the wheels opens a valve, 

 so that water escapes from a barrel and 

 drenches the roots of the plants; two in- 

 clined wheels then press the soil firmly 

 about the roots and even cover the wet 

 soil with a layer of dry dirt which prevents 

 caking. Spaces between plants may be 

 regulated to suit the grower. The fre- 

 quency with which the water is allowed to 

 escape can be finely adjusted by means of 

 a lever. 



After the plants are set out, it is neces- 

 sary for a man to go over the work, here 

 and there removing excess dirt or plac- 

 ing the roots deeper in the ground. The 

 machine works best in a good seed bed, 

 but has been used with success in sod 

 ground. One grower of long experience 

 succeeded in getting an average of ninety- 

 six per cent of his plants to grow — a larger 

 percentage by far than he was ever able 

 to get when the work was done by hand. 

 At best strawberry raising is a 

 precarious undertaking. A 

 planting machine such as ~ 

 the one shown 

 ^ here should fill a 

 long felt want. 



The two men below place the 

 plants in a furrow opened by a 

 shoe. Water is automatically fed 



