JULY 



On the farm. This is the month of wheat harvest 

 and hay-making. The orchard is to be sprayed again to 

 check the second brood of codling moths and spread of 

 various fruit rots. The catalpa grove and young orchard 

 should be sown to cow peas or some other legume. Such 

 succession crops as beans, cabbage, peas, lettuce, radishes, 

 turnips, etc., may be planted in the garden this month. 



LESSON LXXXIX 



ROADS AND ROAD-MAKING 



Perhaps the best time of the year to make roads and 

 improve the old ones is in the spring season, but there 

 are certain improvements which can profitably be made 

 in July and August. Working the roads late in autumn 

 or in winter is not advisable, because they will not get 

 settled, and will remain bad all winter. 



Good roads and country life. Our life in the country 

 will never be as attractive as it ought to be until we 

 have good roads. Bad winter roads that keep the 

 young people in their homes for many months, cause 

 them to grow to dislike the country, and to join that 

 throng of restless humanity moving steadily toward the 

 cities. Will not the young people who love their coun- 

 try homes enter into this crusade for better roads? 



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