The  Home  Acre 
in  their  later  hearing.  Tint  they  came 
buck  all  right  and  are  now  loaded  with 
green  and  ripening  fruit  (July  0).  I 
noticed  fruit  yesterday  on  runners  that 
have  not  yet  rooted.  It  is  an  interesting 
plant  in  the  garden,  hut  Till-:  R.  N.-Y. 
is  right  in  not  calling  it  a  commercial 
berry.  The.  big  annual  croppers  are  the 
only  ones  for  profit  to  the  berry  grower. 
w.  F.  MASSEY. 
F.O.B. 
FOSTORI A 
A  Practical  Car  for  the 
Practical  Farmer 
Think  over  the  car  question— just  what  do  you  require 
Don’t  you  find  most  important — 
POWER,  ROOM,  STRENGTH 
MODERN  CONSTRUCTION 
These  four  points  are  the  ones  most  desirable  for  most  farmers  and  they 
show  up  strong  in  the  specifications  of  the  Allen  37.  You  will  find  the 
Allen  up-to-date,  powerful,  roomy,  well-built  and  complete. 
There  is  no  greater  motor  car  value  under  $1000  there  is  no  car  so 
well  fitted  for  country  use. 
All  we  ask  is  comparison.  Note  these  specifications. 
37  H.  P.  A  cyl.  motor.  Two-unit  electric  starting  and  lighting 
1 1 3-foch  wheelbase.  system. 
5  vi neh  undcrslung  rear  springs.  Weight  2300  pounds. 
Full  floating  rear  axle.  Gives  20  miles  on  a  gallon  of  gasoline. 
37  haQ  nmvpn  so  satisfactory  for  the  past  year  ttafct  it  will  be 
Large  Trees  Near  Buildings 
In  regard  to  shade  trees  near  a  build¬ 
ing  I  can  speak  from  experience;.  I  have 
had  several  little  maples  take  root  from 
seed  blown  from  the  large  maples  in  the 
yard,  and  thought  they  would  he  a  nice 
shade  for  the  dining-r . .  helping  to 
keep  the  room  cool,  so  allowed  them  to 
go.  but  a  few  weeks  ago  noticed  the 
brickwork  to  the  shed  wall  was  cracking 
badly  and  bulged  in.  I  began  to  look  for 
the  cause,  and  one  of  the  largest  of  the 
trees  seemed  to  grow  from  under  a  large 
stone  in  the  .cellar  wall.  I  do  not  know 
from  where  it  has  grown,  but  is  all  out 
of  sight.  I  cut.  the  tree  down  ns  dose 
2207  Allen  Building 
heavy,  and  I  pinched  it  and  made  almost 
a  tree  of  it,  and  this  accounts  for  the 
heavy  crop. 
One  of  the  prettiest  things  T  l  ive  now 
is  a  bed  of  the  colored  variety  of  the 
pigweed  family,  AmarantUK  Melancholi- 
cus ;  variety  is  Sunset,  and  the  colors  are 
more  brilliant  than  the  older  Tricolor. 
I  shall  watch  it  closely  to  avoid  seeding, 
for  I  fear  that  it  might  get  to  he  as  bad 
a  weed  as  the  common  pigweed.  Amaran- 
tus  alhlis. 
Owing  probably  to  the  conditions  made 
by  the  weather  the  string  beau  pods 
have  rusted  worse  than  I  have  ever  seen 
them.  Not  only  the  wax  varieties,  but 
the  green  ones  are  just  as  bad.  And 
the  potato  beetles  have  taken  to  the  to¬ 
matoes  as  thickly  as  they  usually  do  on 
potatoes.  Perhaps  this  is  because  I 
planted  no  potatoes  for  them  this  sea¬ 
son  in  my  garden.  I  let  the  spray  pump 
rest  and  took  the  lead  arsenate  in  a 
bucket  and  used  a  small  whisk  broom  to 
douse  the  plants,  and  on  a  small  scale 
this  is  less  labor  than  the  pump  and 
fully  as  effective.  All  spraying  lias  been 
less  effective  against,  insects  this  Sum¬ 
mer  because  of  the  constant  rains  wash¬ 
ing  off  the  poison.  Mr.  Skinner’s  irriga¬ 
tion  apparatus  works  beautifully,  but 
1ms  been  of  no  use  till  the  past  week 
since  the  rains  have  held  up. 
I  shall  grub  out  the  St.  Regis  rasp¬ 
berry  and  depend  on  the  f’uthhert.  The 
St.  Regis  fruits  Spring  and  Fall,  but 
does  not  give  crops  enough  at  one  time, 
and  I  would  rather  have  the  good  early 
Summer  crop  ai.d  let  the  Fall  crop  go. 
My  Progressive  strawberries  set  such  a 
heavy  early  crop  that  I  was  a  little 
curious  to  see  what  the  result  would  be 
to  the  rock  as  I  could  get;  have  given* 
three  away  and  pulled  up  all  the  lil th¬ 
orn's  l  could,  and  four  more  quite  large 
ones  are  going  soon.  The  largest  are 
three  or  four  inches  around  and  were 
ma'  ing  rapid  growth. 
f)n  another  page  you  advocate  Caro¬ 
lina  poplars  for  windbreaks.  I  am  hav¬ 
ing  experience  with  that  too  but  hope 
it  will  not  bo  serious,  as  I  am  going  to 
stop  it  within  a  few  days.  We  bought 
one  of  the  trees  perhaps  15  years  ago, 
and  my  husband  set  it  across  the  road 
from  the  house  and  about  20  feet  from 
the  corner  of  the  barn  ;  it  is  now  over  00 
feet  high,  and  the  roots  have  grown  to- 
AViirds  the  barn.  Two  trees  have  sprung 
up  that  are  10  or  12  feet  high;  I  dug  for 
the  roots  to  the  one  nearest  the  barn,  and 
it  was  growing  under  it.  I  chopped  it 
off  so  it  wouldn’t  grow  any  farther  that 
way,  and  am  going  to  have  both  small 
trees  taken  up  and  moved  over  in  the 
wood  lot  or  somewhere  away  from  the 
buildings,  and  have  the  large  tree  cut 
down,  as  1  expect  roots  have  extended 
under  the  hank  wall,  as  little  ones  •were 
growing  from  under  the  edge  of  it,  and 
I  could  not  see  the  root  at  all.  I  broke 
off  every  twig  T  could  see,  hut  if  that 
large  tree  should  stand  there  to  feed 
the  roots  that  have  probably  extended  in 
all  directions  I  shall  expect  to  see  tin- 
drive  to  the  barn  cracking  open,  or  trees 
growing  out  of  the  cellar  wall.  The  tree 
is  a  rapid  grower  and  mine  is  very  - 
straight,  and  they  will  make  good  posts, 
but  they  need  to  he  put  away  from  build¬ 
ings  or  almost  any  tree  the  same,  al-  ' 
though  T  do  not  know  about  the  ever¬ 
green  trees  or  their  habits. 
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