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SEED-TIME AUD HARVEST. 
Weeds—Killing the Horse Nettle. 
If there is one weed here more contempti¬ 
ble than this we don’t want to see it. A 
piece of sandy land, not in my care last sea 
son, was so well stocked with seed and roots, 
that although cleaned four times this season, 
they will still come up, and usually three to 
six sprouts where one was cut off several 
inches below the surface. Finding that 
■cutting them off only made them flourish 
more abundantly, another plan was adopted 
recently which promises a success. It is 
simply bending the plant down with the 
foot and covering the whole plant with a 
few inches of earth. This seems to smother 
the whole affair. 
Some years ago a patch of Canadian 
thistles that got a foot hold on my ground 
(came with some plants and trees from 
Western New York) were speedily destroy¬ 
ed, simply by covering the whole plant 
with inverted sods four inches thick. No 
root can live long during the growing sea 
son if air and light can be kept from the 
foliage. The plow may do for this nettle, 
but mine are in the melon patch where this 
implement cannot be used. 
In my young days I gave myself away 
badly once by digging a plant of this on the 
mountain and carrying it home as a curios¬ 
ity. Had no idea that one day I would 
feel like cursing the thing. 
A Modern American Fable. 
A fox, who had had a long run before the 
hounds, dashed into the retreat of a hare. 
“Lend me your bed, my dear friend,” he 
said, “for an hour or two. I am fatigued 
by a long journey. A little fresh air will 
do you good. You stay in-doors too much 
with your interesting little family. I will 
take good care of the little dears in your 
absence.” 
The poor hare, half dead with fright, left 
her home with sad forebodings, and was 
soon killed by the hounds. After awhile, 
they recovered the scent of the fox, who 
was unfit for another run, having just 
devoured the last of the leverets. 
Moral .—The rascal who cheaes the poor 
and defenceless, whether in small stealings 
from individuals or wholesale robberies of 
charitable trusts, is generally caught at last. 
Cassell's Family Magazine for August. 
NOTES AND CLEANINGS. 
It used to be noted in the days when sum. 
mer fallowing for wheat was common that 
fields broken up in a very dry time and 
exposed to the scorching sun produce 
better wheat than after a cooler, moister 
summer. Probaly this sun-scorched soil 
was partly burned and its mineral fertility 
liberated. We get phosphate and potash 
now more cheaply than by this method 
when we buy commercial fertilizers. In 
fact, as the mineral manures have come in, 
the practice of summer fallowing for wheat 
has gone into disuse.— Boston Cultivator. 
A Correspondent of Gardening Illus¬ 
trated says: “Wash the cabbages well with 
strong soot and water, and on the first dry 
day dust the ground about the cabbages 
with quicklime, and pick off as many of 
the caterpillars as possible. During the 
winter use gas-lime on the land, leaving the 
land in ridges to catch the frost, and ver v 
few insects will trouble you again. The 
odors emitted from gas-lime are so pungent 
that neither moth, butterfly nor mole wil 
remain on land that is dressed with it.” 
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Plenty of Closets. The whole warmed by one chimney 
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