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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 life will be better worth the living. 
JuLy is the real haying month in the Northern 
States. There are scores of things todo. Many 
of the fall-crop vegetables are to be sown this 
month, and the ground must be put in good 
