SEEB-TWE AH© HARVEST. 
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Screens and Windbreaks. 
It seems to us very strange indeed that 
so many farmers and other countrymen 
fail to appreciate the value of evergreen 
trees for beauty and protection. In riding 
through the country almost anywhere we 
may see thousands of residences, as well as 
stock barns and fruit plantations which 
are wholly exposed to the sweeping north 
and west winds, when a very little expense 
or trouble would be required in forming a 
shelter by an evergreen belt, which would 
add more than ten times its cost to the 
appearance and actual value of the farm. 
Few trees are better adapted to forming 
shelter belts than the Norway spruce. It 
is easily and safely transplanted, grows 
rapidly and forms a low thick growth 
which allows but little air or wind to pen¬ 
etrate. 
Desiring a quantity of these trees we sent 
in the spring of 1876 to a nurseryman in 
Wisconsin who makes a specialty of them, 
for about 5000 one and two year seedlings. 
The cost was about $20 and the above num¬ 
ber came packed in a box not much larger 
than a boot box. Still they were shipped 
as common freight, and although mis¬ 
directed so they were fully thirty days 
en route they were so well packed that 
they arrived in fine condition and nearly 
all lived. The average height of the trees 
when received was not over ten inches, and 
they were carefully set in a bed in rows one 
foot apart and about six inches in the row. 
After setting, the whole plantation was 
mulched heavily with forest leaves and 
thoroughly wet. In about three years they 
were removed, some being set where they 
were desired permanently, and some given 
more room in nursery rows. They made 
very beautiful trees and are now from six 
to ten feet in height. We placed a thick 
double row on the north-west side of the 
house and already feel its effect in break¬ 
ing the furies of the north winds. Single 
trees have been set about the lawn for or¬ 
nament, and in several places long lines 
have been placed but three feet apart where 
permanent fences are required. A single 
bar^ 2 d wire stretched through the line and 
attach, d to an occasional stake, soon makes 
an ornamental, durable and effective fence 
for any kind of stock. It has long been 
known throughout the neighborhood that 
persons desering to purchase, may have 
their choice from our plantation for fifteen 
cents each, and although many trees have 
been sold it seems surprising how few ap¬ 
preciate the chance. Few farmers can 
afford, or to quote them can “find room 
for” more than two or three for their front 
yard. We know of farms where in our 
opinion an expenditure of five dollars in 
these trees, properly set as a shelter belt, 
would at once increase the value of the 
farm ten times the amount of all expense 
and trouble necessary to do it. We think 
of surrounding a couple of acres entirely 
with them for a permanent fruit lot, and 
believe it will make the climate several de¬ 
grees warmer. 
FLEMING Sl TAYLOR, 
Augusta, Ky., 
Breeders and Shippers of thoroughbred Buff Cochins. 
Plymouth Rocks and Brown Leghorns. Eggs $1.50 
per sitting. Satisfaction guaranteed in every respect. 
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5-6 CHARLES RICK, Falrvlew, Pa. 
S WEET DOTATO 
I can now supply Thous- 
plants of the | follow ‘ 
P 
LANTS. 
ands of good 
_ [owing well | known varie¬ 
ties:' Jersey Reds, Short Nansemonds, 
Morris Rivers and Bermudas. Prices on 
application. J. L. BORDEN, Micklkton, N. J. 
DON’T BE A FOOL! 
Axt of money getting—one book free, 
l-h R. L. WOLCOTT, Brooklyn N. T. 
PLYMOUTH ROCKC 
Gilman’s Renowned Strain.^# | 
Four Yards open range. First class Stock only. 
$2.00 for 15 Eggs, or 13 Eggs for 1.50 and 
those who mention Seed-Time and Harvest will 
receive 2 extra eggs. W. C. HART, 
4tf Box No. 2, Walden, Orange Co., N.Y. 
EGGS 
g HATCHING 
— FROM— 
PURE BRED STOCK. 
For the season of 1884 I can supply Eggs from the 
following varieties of fowls at the low rates attached 
packed in baskets and delivered to express here. 
Langshans, $1.50 per sitting of 13 Eggs. 
Light Bralimas, 2.00 ” ” ”13 
Plym’th Rocks, 1.00 ” ” ”13 
Brown Leghorns 1.00 ” ” ”13 
All the above are from strong birds kept on sepa- 
arate farms. JW. H. CAPWELL, 
La Plume, Lack’a Co., Pa. 
