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HORTICULTURAL NOTES. 
We feel sure that forestry will, in the future, offer 
good opportunity to trained young men. The forest 
service of the Government is being rapidly developed, 
and the States are beginning to provide for future 
lumber supplies.- Not only this, but many large 
private estates are employing professional foresters. 
A man with fair training usually enters the Gov¬ 
ernment service as forest assistant at a salary of 
$1,000 per year. He must pass an examination for 
this, and thus far there have been positions for all 
who passed. If such a man can make good promo¬ 
tion is fairly rapid. For a young man who likes 
an active, out-door life, this profession of forestry 
would be attractive. Such a man could, in time, ob¬ 
tain cheap land in a good location, plant it in timber 
trees, give it reasonable care and have it grow into 
a sure investment and life insurance. It is better 
than the army or navy, for live trees are better than 
oead men. 
We seem to have stirred up the Pacific Coast ap¬ 
ple growers by remarks about the bashful State— 
SUNFLOWER CHICKEN FENCE. Fig. 90. 
Vermont. The Secretary of the Wenatchee Com¬ 
mercial Club sends this note: 
1 have receiving a clipping from your paper mentioning 
the prize lor best carload, won by Mr. Horan of this place, 
at the recent apple show held in Spokane. You say : “Sup¬ 
pose Mr. Horan had planted an orchard in New England 
and given it perfect care? - ’ If permitted to answer this, 
as 1 have been requested to do so, would say, that the 
climatic conditions, soil, etc., of the New England States 
were not blessed by the Maker for the production of the 
unequalled quality and appearance of the apple, as is the 
case in the Wenatchee Valley, the district in which Mr. 
Horan grew the most perfect car of apples in the world. 
D. X. GELLATLY. 
They don’t even put the State after Wenatchee 
—they mark it U. S. A., and let it go. We have 
no desire to reflect in any way upon Mr. Horan’s 
well-deserved success. If he had gone to the Cham¬ 
plain Valley and planted apples adapted to that 
section and given them the best care we think he 
would have had finer fruit than those he exhibited. 
THE! RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
They would not have been so profitable, because 
Vermont people lack the faith which can move moun¬ 
tains out of the way to the world’s apple market! 
Here we have a new side of the apple business. 
You will see that this Virginian sent to New York 
State for apples. He got them, but see what there 
was tacked on the barrel! 
Last month a barrel of apples were shipped me by 
express from Churchville, N. Y., as the railroad would not 
accept the shipment as freight, and when they reached me 
the charges were ?4.40. Application to Mr. Alexander, 
head mogul of the express company in Richmond, Va., de¬ 
cides that the rate was correct, and declines my request 
for a refund to an equitable charge. A corporation that 
abuses its power virtually to rob the people ought to be 
curbed, and I hope the farmers of the country will insist 
on the enactment: of the parcels post law as recommended 
by Postmaster General Meyer. People who will submit to 
such treatment don’t deserve to be free—nor are they. 
Louisa, Va. w. e. c. 
This man is right. We are not free while such 
things are done. What are you going to do about 
it? Keep on printing the fact until the public make 
such a noise that the wrong will have to be righted. 
Never forget that it’s simply a matter of getting 
fighting mad. The situation in New York has be¬ 
come so bad that the Merchants’ Association has 
appealed to the Public Service Commission for help. 
Express rates are so high that last year these ex¬ 
press companies had $7,696,387 in cash after paying 
all expenses. This sum was greater than the value 
of all equipment. Parcels post or bust! 
AN ECONOMICAL POULTRY FENCE. 
It is the practice of a great many of our best 
poultrymen to raise their chicks on fresh ground each 
year, and some have gone beyond that, and have de¬ 
veloped systems with poultry managed as a crop in 
rotation. The agricultural possibilities of this com¬ 
bination are almost unlimited, but the great draw¬ 
back to overcome is the problem of fencing. Growing 
crops must be protected while young, but after the 
first few weeks there are a number that poultry do 
not trouble. A fence of five-foot chicken wire runs 
into money pretty fast; the posts have to be quite 
firmly set, and then the year after building it isn’t 
where you want it at all. A strictly portable fence is 
even more expensive, and rather cumbersome, too, but 
the following design is free from the principal ob¬ 
jections : 
As early in the Spring as possible I plant a row of 
sunflowers where I wish the fence for the season, 
using an ordinary garden drill that does the work 
beautifully. I then drive stakes at intervals along 
the row, and stretch chicken wire that is only two 
feet high. This is a very brief operation, and if the 
seeds are in no danger of being scratched up may be 
postponed until such time as the fence is actually 
needed. Of course the wire alone will confine the 
chicks when small, and by the time they are old 
enough to fly the sunflowers have grown up to make 
a combination that is absolutely “chicken tight.” It 
March 6, 
never occurs to a stupid hen to try flying over it, and 
at the bottom there is the wire, yet a person may 
come and go almost as if there was no fence there 
at all. 
Shade is one of the essential factors in successful 
growing of chicks, and incidentally the sunflower 
hedge furnishes an ideal retreat from the hot Summer 
sun. The birds lie about among the stalks, shuffling 
in the cool earth, apparently enjoying life to the 
utmost. Finally at the end of the season the heads of 
the sunflowers are cut down and the pullets make 
short work of harvesting the seeds. The sunflower 
is hardy, almost to the point of being a weed, so it 
PERSIMMON TREE IN “VIRGINIA. Fig. 97. 
would doubtless be practicable to plant the seed in 
the late Fall, thus gaining that much 'on the situation 
in Spring when everything is crowding. The picture 
at Fig. 96 shows the fence as it appears in December, 
after the tops were cut. This will turn the hens 
better than a board or wire fence of the same height 
as the hens cannot fly up and roost upon it. 
Connecticut. c. m. gallup. 
The Republic of Brazil bought from this country in 10 
months of last year 8644.055 worth of apples! 
It is said there are no tramps or beggars in Hawaii. 
There is enough to eat, “while the climate precludes the 
possibility of suffering from lack of clothing.” 
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