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we pay for what is little else than water colored and flavored by nature so as to 

 be pleasing to the eye and the palate. 



To the fruit-grower let me give encouragement to go on supplying the 

 public demand. Try to make your fruit as large and luscious as possible, and 

 be assured that it will be appreciated, and, in most cases, well paid for. Keep 

 your land as rich as possible and you will thus produce fruit at the least cost. 

 The most expensive fruit to the grower is the poorest he raises. — H. E. Van 

 Deman, in G. Fruit Farm. 



House Flies.— Prof. A. J. Cook, in the New York Weekly Tribune for 

 July 30th, says : " If wire-gauze window-screens are hinged at the top so as to 

 readily swing outward, it is very easy to drive the flies out of the window of a 

 darkened room. With such screens supplemented by an occasional use of 

 fresh and good insect powder (bubach or California pyrethrum) it is not 

 difficult to keep the house almost entirely free of these pests. The only possible 

 objection to the powder is that if much be used it leaves a fine dust on the 

 furniture and about the room ; this however, is certainly a minor disadvantage.*' 

 I may add to this by saying that if the powder is used the rooms should be 

 darkened with one exception. The flies will congregate in this room. In the 

 evening throw some of the powder in, as a dust, and close the room tightly. In 

 the morning when the husband builds the fire, as all true husbands do, he 

 should sweep up the flies and burn them, or they will revive and be as great a 

 nuisance as ever. 



In Setting" a Grindstone. — It is no use to have rickety frames or to 

 have them out of doors uncovered and with water in the trough. That part of 



the stone standing in the water becomes soft 

 and is easily worn away, while that exposed 

 to the snow is continually hardened and 

 wears out of a true circle so that no tool 

 can be properly ground upon it. The cut 

 shows a well- seasoned piece of timber 1 ft- 

 square and 3 ft. or more long with a trough 

 cut in the top, 8 or 10 in. deep, and 

 Fig. 392. thoroughly coated with hot oil or coal oil 



several times before using. Make the legs of 3 x 4 in scantling beveled at the 

 top and firmly nailed on. The shaft can be supported by wooden boxes 

 attached or friction wheels that often come with the stone. Make a good solid 

 cover and keep it on the stone when not in use. A plug at A fills the hole used 

 to run the water off. 



