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some since tlion, but I can still buy the best land from $7 to $10 an acre. 

 I have been a resident of this Stale Viearly nine years, and am very well 

 satisfied with this climate. It is true that our Winters are long- and some- 

 times cold, but they are dry, and Summers delig'htful and healthy." 



Michigan for Sheep Farms. 



Mr. Samuel ^Vils()n, Pinckney, Living'ston count}^ Micliig-an, thinks that 

 State admirably suited to the wants of those who have written to the Club 

 for information where is the best place to establish sheep farms: 



"Farms and flocks can be paid for in two or three years out of the pro- 

 ceeds. There are no better sheep lands in the West than the rolling oak 

 opening's of Micliigan. Our sheep are very healthy, and shear heavy fleeces 

 of excellent wool. The Winters I think better for sheep than further south, 

 being- clear and dry, and always free from mud. Farms of the class I have 

 been speaking of — soil good, large improvements, comlortable buildings, 

 good orchards, &c., and located convenient to villages, mills, schools and 

 churches, and not over ten miles from the Michigan Central Eailroad — can 

 be bought at from $10 to $20 per acre.. We say, then, to Mr. Atwater and 

 all others, don't wait on Missouri quieting down, but come to Michigan at 

 once, and I think you will be satisfied with the result." 



A Cheap Substitute Hot-Bed. 



A resident of Salem, Ind., says he obtains earl}^ tomato-plants in the fol- 

 lowing way : " Make a double box, without a bottom, four feet by five, and 

 eighteen inches deep. The space between the double case, four inches, is 

 to be filled with earth. Set this box slighUy in the ground on the south 

 side of a fence, sinking the south end five or six inches deeper than the 

 other. In this put four or five inches of fresh manure, and on it good soil, 

 covered with a sash protected cold nights by covering. I sowto'mato seed 

 early in March (lat. 39 deg.), and tliin the plants to get a good growth, 

 and when ready to transplant take them up carefully with the adhering 

 earth, and set them in place without checking the growth. Protect from 

 frost afterward with cloth, boards, or paper. In one season from twenty- 

 two tomato plants we had more than double what a family of seven per- 

 sons needed. They grew five feet high, supported on a frame of slats run- 

 ning horizontally the whole length of the bed, fastened to stakes leaning 

 outward. The box, slats and posts, with care, will last many j'ears, and 

 this cheap hat-bed would soon pay for itself if I sold the plants iqstead of 

 giving them away. I use the seed of large fleshy varieties, and always 

 save the earliest and best for seed." 



Apple Tree Borers — How to Kill Them. 



James Anton, Lebanon, Warren county, Ohio, recommends a portable 

 steaming apparatus for killing fruit-tree borers. A small copper boiler, 

 attached to a sheet iron fire pan, is made so portable that it is easily moved 

 from place to place, or even carried in the hands while performing the work. 

 The boiler is provided with a stop cock orifice to admit the water, aiid an- 

 other for the discharge of steam. To the latter a flexible tube is attached, 



