May  20,  13  16. 
color.  I  iicvcB  saw  the  miracle  worked 
out  so  gloriously  before.  I  find  that  I 
have  said  that  every  year  since  we  have 
lived  among  these  hills,  but  it  has  al¬ 
ways  been  true. 
The  Fruit. — We  never  hud  such  a 
promise  before.  A  month  ago  I  should 
have  said  half  a  crop  of  peaches,  but 
now  that  the  trees  are  in  full  bloom  I 
'w'r"  b,jd  *-ba^  they  are  carrying  all  that  most 
of  them  should.  On  the  lower  part  of 
iop?”  the  farm  some  buds  were  killed,  but  all 
,  but  trees  have  more  or  less  bloom,  and  as 
oxen,  y  are  jn  health,  this  ought  to 
slings  mean  finer  if  fewer  peaches.  As  we  go 
up  the  hill  tlie  orchards  are  better  and 
better,  and  there  is  now  every  indication 
of  a  full  peach  crop.  As  for  apples,  most 
n  tj,e  of  our  trees  are  wonderful.  This  is  the 
him.  bearing  year  for  most  of  our  young  Bald- 
ad  a  wius.  They  have  had  a  year’s  rest  and 
'was  bave  made  hue  growth  since  the  last  crop, 
mid'  Now  they  seem  determined  to  pay  us  for 
all  we  have  done  for  them. 
nan’s 
trick  “Coming  Back.” — With  us  Baldwin 
iu  ujeiuui »  ipuimu  nit-  ujl  imo  bhiij,  writ-  and  Greening  hear  in  alternate,  years, 
ten  in  1*70,  and  read  by  me  before  the  found  orchards  of  good-sized  trees 
Hope  Faith  man  left  Aew  England,  I  .  , 
guess.  1  wish  Kellogg’s  books  for  boys  here  vvb,'n  'Vl'  they  had  long 
might  have  a  revival  and  he  read  by  all  before  adopted  the  plan  of  bearing  heav- 
boys.  I  advise  them  for  the  Red  heads.  j)\  one  year  and  resting  the  next  year. 
In  addition  to  being,  to  my  mind,  the  best  r  to  th5s  year  this  habit  has  never 
hoys  books  ever  written,  they  give  a  cor-  ,  ‘  ,  ,  *  .  , ,  ,  T 
rect  idea  of  early  New  England  life.  failed,  m  Spite  of  all  we  could  do.  East 
E.  E.  C.  year  was  the  hearing  year,  and  we  had 
There  is  no  question  about  the  quality  no  thought  of  a  crop  this  year.  Judge 
and  value  of  those  books  by  Kellogg.  I  "f  our  surPrise  when  we  find  many  of 
regard  them  as  the  best  boy’s  books  I  ever  th*se  bi*  tr*?s  al've  Wlth  U"oin  ,his  s<‘a' 
read.  I  went  over  them  again  and  again  son-  aud  evidently  prepared  to  give  us 
through  the  Winter  nights  on  the  old  ba™ls  of  fruit  to  the  tree  ,n  some 
farm  and  also  read  them  in  the  hole  un-  ‘S<?vei'al  ereat  Gm’llln*  tm>s  that 
der  the  haymow  that  I  have  told  about.  m‘ver  beforp  in  onr  remembrance  followed 
As  1  remember  them,  the  best  was  “Good  one  croP  with  annthor  are  now  a  mass  of 
Old  Times,”  which  was  a  vivid  picture  bloom'  In  trvin*  to  fi-ur0  out  somo  rea- 
of  life  in  Maine  during  pioneer  times.  I  for  tbis  1  rememher  that  these  trees 
have  not  seen  these  books  for  years,  but  a,,p  in  sod-  nnd  tbat  for  **Vf>ral  ?cars  ™ 
I  think  many  of  onr  modern  children  bave  <*ut  tbe  hay  and  talien  most  of  Jt 
would  enjoy  them  as  we  did.  I  am  go-  Ia  to  make  up  for  this  we 
ing  to  hunt  up  a  set  of  Kellogg's  books  b:,vp’  d,mnS  hlte  Summer,  hauled  in  ma- 
for  n.v  children  at  once.  Most  of  us  have  nure  and  scattered  a  good  dress.ng  of  it 
recited  “Spurtncus  to  the  Gladiators!"  around  the  treeB-  Perhal)S  tbis  cointm' 
We  can  remember  how  we  roared  defiance  a”"s  1:1  tP  ”'a’n>nng  has  finally  stimulated 
to  the  audience  with  “Ye  call  me  chief!"  thp  fniit  buds  aud  madp  tbem  cha,’*,‘ 
That  famous  thriller  was  written  by  thp!r  babit-  B(,tb  b,lds  and  ,nc‘n  arf  hkp' 
Kellogg !  ly  to  forget  old  habits  under  stimulation. 
As  for  the  ox-shoeing,  the  great  major-  Strawberries  and  Potatoes. — Our 
ity  of  our  younger  people  never  saw  an  people  will  remember  the  experience  wc 
•ox  at  work.  I  met  a  man  out  West  had  with  a  strawberry  field  of  last  year, 
whose  grandfather  was  a  pioneer  and  it  had  been  fruiting  six  years,  but  finally 
crossed  the  plains  with  an  ox  team.  This  grew  too  foul  with  weeds  to  make  an¬ 
num  went  along  as  a  baby,  and  the  oxen  other  cleaning  pay.  So  we  picked  the 
hauled  him.  Yet  when  I  told  him  that  fruit  at  the  usual  time  and  at  once 
oxen  were  still  worked,  and  that  they  plowed  vines  and  mulch  and  weeds  un- 
were  shod,  he  roared  with  laughter  and  der.  Then  we 'seeded  buckwheat  with  a 
would  not  believe  it.  He  owned  bun-  light  scattering  of  turnips.  By  Septem- 
dreds  of  beef  steers  and  owed  his  very  her  the  buckwheat  was  3%  feet  high  and 
presence  in  that  land  to  the  oxen,  yet  he  a  thick  mat.  We  tried  to  plow  it  under 
could  not  realize  that  the  labor  of  those  as  it.  stood,  but  this  was  impossible.  Wc 
strong  brutes  could  ever  be  iitili",  h  The  hqd  to  cut  the  stuff  with  the  mower,  but 
African  chief  wanted  to  kill  the  mission-  }t  will  pay  to  send  a  man  along  behind 
ary  who  told  him  that  the  cold  would  the  plow  to  rake  the  crop  into  the  fur- 
make  water  so  hard  that  you  could  walk  rows.  In  this  way  we  finally  got  it  un- 
on  it.  In  his  way  he  was  not  unlike  a  der  and  at  once  planted  Marshalls  once 
common  type  of  men  who  will  denounce  more — three  feet  apart  each  way — after 
and  ridicule  every  statement  -which  is  not  packing  the  soil  down  firmly.  The  ground 
exactly  covered  by  their  own  experience.  W.JIS  damp  and  the  plants  started.  Then 
I  knew  an  old  man  in  New  Hampshire  ,.i)me  a  volunteer  crop  of  buckwheat 
who  spent  his  spare  time  digging  great  which  grew  lip  among  the  berry  plants 
holes  by  tlie  side  of  rocks  so  as  to  tip  and  at  first  fell  down  around  them  as  a 
them  over  and  bury  them.  Year  after  light  mulch.  This  Spring  most  of  *those 
year  by  tbe  hardest,  toil  he  had  cleared  berry  plants  are  alive  and  looking  well, 
about  two  acres  of  these  rocks.  I  told  Some  of  them  will  give  a  small  crop.  \Ve 
him  how  in  other  sections  they  blew  such  have  worked  through  the  rows  one  way 
rocks  out  with  dynamite,  blit  he  shook  with  a  light  plow,  throwing  furrows  to- 
his  head.  I  told  an  Illinois  man  about  gather  to  the  center.  Now  good-sized 
it,  and  he  said  the  old  man  must  be  seed  pieces  of  Irish  Cobbler  potatoes  are 
crazy  to  work  like  that — but  he  had  a  planted  between  each  two  strawberry 
sound,  quick  brain,  and  had  made  money  plants — one  way.  This  gives  us  a  chance 
on  his  farm.  As  for  this  shoeing  oxen,  to  cultivate  with  the  horse  one  way, 
I  will  guarantee  that  many  a  man  who  while  the  rows  will  be  kept  elean  with 
laughs  at  the  idea  will  be  found  keeping  the  hoe.  Tbe* potato  seed  put  deep  down 
work  horses  at  a  loss.  into  that  decaying  buckwheat  ought  to  do 
Spring. — I  never  saw  Spring  come  well,  and  more  than  pay  the  cost  of  Te- 
upon  us  with  quite  the  beauty  she  has  placing  that  strawberry  field  so  it  will  be 
shown  this  year.  The  cold,  stormy  better  than  ever.  We  are  planting  more 
weather  kept  the  grass  and  the  buds  potatoes  this  year  than  ever  before.  I 
back  until  it  seemed  as  if  Nature  had  think  it  will  he  a  potato  year  for  the 
grown  weary  of  dressing  up  and  would  Fall  trade.  The  price  of  seed  is  very 
never  put  on  her  new  green  suit.  The  high,  and  fertilizers  are  not  satisfactory 
peach  buds  would  not  start,  and  we  had  <,n  account  of  the  shortage  of  potash, 
begun  to  give  them  up.  Then,  there  came  On  the  lighter  soils  south  of  us  the  plant- 
a  few  warmer  days,  and  all  of  a  sudden  jng  js  lighter  than  usual,  and  I  think  the 
wc  woke  one  morning  to  find  a  mild,  earlier  crop  will  be  short.  Thus  the 
Summer  day  with  a  shimmer  of  green  on  Trjsli  Cobbler  planted  as  early  as  is  safe 
the  trees.  There  was  no  stopping  it  in  our  latitude  ought  to  come  on  the  mar- 
then ;  Spring  came  in  a  hurry  with  that  kot  about  right,  while,  with  a  favorable 
new  dress  and  Nature  threw  it  on  with-  season,  the  later  crop  may  bo  heavy.  So 
out  much  caring  about  the  fit  or  the  we  are  plowing  considerable  sod  and 
wrinkles.  Almost  before  you  could  think  planting  Cobblers.  We  may  not  bit  it 
it  the  trees  burst  from  bud  to  full  leaf,  right,  but  it  looks  like  a  good  chance  to 
and  the  whole  country  was  aglow  with  take.  n,  W.  C. 
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