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in cultivating and using the wheel-hoe. Be- 

 sides, your strawberry beds will be needing a 

 good deal of attention, and your chicken-run 

 should have its location changed for awhile. 



There are no idle times for the intelligent 

 farmer, but the beautiful month of June is 

 generally the busiest. Indeed, it is often so 

 busy that the farmer does not have time to 

 know how beautiful it is. But you can have 

 time. Arrange your work; drive it instead of 

 letting it drive you, and you will be surprised 

 how much time you have to look up and to 

 realize that it is a glorious thing just to be 

 alive. But this cannot be if you have neglected 

 your work from month to month. The smell 

 of ripening strawberries, of new-mown hay fill 

 the air before this month is gone; the sky is 

 the bluest, the grass the greenest, the trees the 

 freshest of any month in the year. Don't lose 

 those delights without having known that they 

 have come. Cultivate yourself as well as your 

 soil, and hfe will be better worth the hving. 



July is the real haying month in the Northern 

 States. There are scores of things to do. Many 

 of the fall-crop vegetables are to be sown this 

 month, and the ground must be put in good 



