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value' of the corn crop, nearly twice 

 that of the wheat product, ten times 

 the output of the silver and gold mines 

 or the value of the wool product, and 

 three times the value of the output 

 from all the mines of the United States 

 put together. 



WATERING SMALL GARDENS. 



A rubber hose is generally the most 

 available means for watei'ing gardens 

 in towns and villages in which there 

 are public water-works. But this is 

 so expensive that people of moderate 

 means do not use it extensivel}'. As 

 a substitute for rubber hose I have 

 employed half-inch iron pipe, with very 

 satisfactory results. From the water- 

 pipe in the street to the rear end of 

 my garden, the distance is over three 

 hundred feet. Last year there Avas 

 not a day, during the entire growing 

 season, when any portion of the garden 

 needed water ; but tlie season previous 

 we had no rain for more than six weeks. 

 During s\ich dry and hot weather the 

 garden needed water almost every day. 



As a substitute for hose, I purchased 

 two hundred feet of half-inch iron pipe, 

 in lengths of about sixteen feet each, 

 at $3.75 per hundred feet. Galvanized 

 pipe usually costs twice as much as the 

 plain iron. To keep the pipe from 

 rusting, a heavy coat of paint was 

 applied to the outside ; but pitch or 

 coal-tar, applied boiling hot, will be 

 cheaper and moi'e durable than paint. 



Now, instead of l)urying the pipe in 

 the ground, 1 laid it on the surface and 

 screwed the lengths together, thus form- 

 ing a line of pipe from a faucet in the 

 kitchen to tlie rear end of the garden. 

 About every fifty feet, there is a T 

 coupliuir, provided with a short piece 

 of ])ipe, say six inches long, the ends of 

 which are closed by an iron cap screwed 

 on tlie end of each short piece where 

 there is a T. By opening the faucet 

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in the kitchen, water will rush in a 

 minute to the farther end of the garden. 

 Now we attach a hose, ten feet long, 

 to any part of the pipe where there is 

 a T, and with that an abundant supply 

 of water can be directed to any pax-t of 

 the grounds. As soon as one part of 

 the garden has been watered sufficiently, 

 unscrew the short hose from the T, 

 screw on the iron cap, and carry the 

 hose to the next T, remove the cap 

 and screw on the hose, and throw water 

 fifty feet or more on both sides of the 

 line of iron pipe. At the close of the 

 growing season, unscrew the lengths of 

 iron pipe and store them under the 

 floor of a veranda or in the garret until 

 wanted another season. — Am. Garden. 



SHAFFER'S COLOSSAL. 



The editor of the Rural Home re- 

 cently visited some of the farms in 

 Western New York belonging to the 

 Wayne County Evaporated Fruit Com- 

 pany, and says as follows : 



Mr. Van Dusen has taken a great 

 fancy to the Shaffer raspberry, and is 

 planting them as fast as he can make 

 l)lants. As we saw it bearing on the 

 T./yons farm we are not surprised at his 

 enthusiasm in its favor. It was bear- 

 ing an immense crop. The Shaffer 

 was, evidently, a chance hybrid of the 

 red and black found on the farm of a 

 Mr. Shaffer, of Wheatland (we think), 

 Monroe County. Was introduced by 

 Chas. A. Green, of Clifton, in the same 

 county. When we first saw it on Mr. 

 Green's grounds, about four yeai-s since, 

 we said that it was the largest rasp- 

 berry we ever saw, but thought its 

 color - a dark purple — would prove an 

 obstacle to its i-eady sale in market. 

 But that objection has been avoided by 

 not offering for sale in its' fi-esh state, 

 but by canning or evaporating. Mr. 

 Van Dusen evaporated his crop last 

 year, and disposed of the dried fruit at 



