1910. 
720 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY. 
Stained with Sweat and Tears. 
On December 31, 1908, the following 
advertisement appeared in one or more 
of the papers published by E. G. Lewis 
of St. Louis, Mo. 
A FEW THOUSAND TO OFFER 
We have but a few thousand dollars of the 7 per cent ten months* 
notes to offer, with their bonus of *5 P** cent in the common stock 
of the Lewis I'ublttlwuK Company. These notes will be soltl in any 
amounts from $too to $t/>oo. and are the direct obligation of the 
Lewis Publishing Company. The common stock «ivcn with each note 
•s a bonus is a part ol the stock surrendered for that purpose by ofTi 
ecu of the company (by whom it was all held) during the recent 
panic when this issue of bote* was-authorised, and can not be sold or 
used for any other purpose by the company than as a bonus with these 
notes. None of this common Jtock has ever before been offered for 
aale. the total amount of the* entire Common stock being $1,000,000, and 
all being held by the original founder* of the business. »ave thi* portion 
of it surrendered by them. 
The purchasers of these note* may at the time of remitting for them 
have an amount of *tocle in the People* Savings Trust Company or of 
preferred stock in the Lewi* Publishing Company reserved for them on 
reouest equal to the amount of the note purchased, and at maturity of 
the note transfer their ftinds dollar for dollar to cither the capital of tht 
Trust Company or the preferred stock of the Lewis Publishing Company, 
■ ff -ffi , AM no,., desired, 
the note properly certified and recorded, will be sent yon. together with a 
certificate of stock for as per cent of the amount of the note, and a check 
for the ten months’ interest in advance . 
Orders for these notes will be filUd as received as long as there arc 
any for sale. They offer the only opportunity to secure this stock 
bonus together with a safe ten months' loan of your funds at 7 P*r cent 
interest Not over $1,600 of the notes will be sold to any one person. 
The company reserves the right to call in and pay the entire issue of 
these notes before maturity, in which event, however, the purchasers re¬ 
ceive the full ten months' interest and may if they wish direct the transfer 
ef their fund* at once to the capital of the Trust Company or the preferred 
stock of the Lewis Publishing Company. 
Owing to the early resumption of dividends on the entire capital «tod 
✓ of the Publishing Company, which is now proposed, together with the 
[ anticipated liquidation of its entire indebtedness, the stock transfer hooks 
I of the company will close February t for thirty days and the dividends 
I declared wilt be payable to those in whose name the stock is recorded at 
| that^daR.^ ^ <wf readers having from $ioato $t.«Joo available for a short 
lime loan will not be able to secure so advantageous an opportunity 
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.TREASURER THE LEWIS PUBLISHING CO.. 
UNIVERSITY CITY. ST. LOUIS. MO- 
Mr. 
writes 
In 
loaned 
Mailing 
seven 
Towanda, Pa., 
Reed Verguson, 
as follows:— 
the last days of .January, 1909, I 
to E. G. Lewis, as the Lewis l’llb- 
Company, $400. I was to have a 
per cent first mortgage note for 10 
months’. The note was dated January 30, 
1909. When this note came due I sent it 
for payment to the People’s Loan and Trust 
Company of University City. The order for 
payment on the Trust Company was a part 
of the note. They kept the note and sent 
me an interim receipt with no statement 
whatever. Then I wrote them again, in¬ 
quiring why the note was not paid, and tell¬ 
ing them again that the money was a trust 
fund and I must have it right away. In re¬ 
ply to this letter I received the following: 
"Dear Sir: Forward your note or interim 
receipt representing same and check will be 
sent you. r. B. putnam, Treasurer.” 
To this I replied I would send the receipt 
with sight draft attached. The draft went 
forward through the hank December 28, 
.1909, and they paid no attention to it. It 
was returned January 18, 1910. I wrote 
to Mr. D'wis telling him just how I was 
situated ; that the money was not my own, 
but belonged to an old lady 90 years old ; 
that at most any day I might be called on 
for some of this money. It I had to make 
this good right away it would take our little 
home. I begged him to send me the money 
and save me all this trouble, as it made me 
sick to think he could treat a man who had 
been a friend to him in this way. I come 
to you as a friend to help a poor old soldier 
out of tl»is awful trouble, as my health is 
not very good and 1 have not got 
go to St. Louis and perhaps get 
before 1 can get out of town. 
I feel as if I had a friend in 
money to 
in prison 
you, 
the savings of servant girls, washer¬ 
woman, boarding-house keepers, small 
children and poor men, the wonder is 
that he didn't sue for $250,000,000. If 
he should keep on with his schemes 
there is no reason why he could not 
hope to collect that amount from the 
peonlc of the country, and if lie has ever 
naid back except under pressure any¬ 
thing that he has once collected, we 
have no record of it. A study of the 
above advertisement will, we think, con¬ 
vince anyone that Mr. Lewis’s purpose 
was not to pay back the money, but to 
induce Mr. Verguson to accept either 
Trust Company or Publishing Company 
stock in exchange for it. There is some 
three and a half millions of the Pub¬ 
lishing Company stock and exchanging 
this for cash must be an easy way of 
getting money. 
Just consider the plight of this poor 
old soldier. Picture him as the custo¬ 
dian of an old woman’s life savings, 
which he has entrusted to Lewis under 
his alluring and seductive promises. He 
has a little home to shelter his old age 
after his youth has been spent and his 
strength reduced in the service of his 
country. He stands in danger of losing 
that home and that shelter in his old 
age through the trickery of this man 
Lewis, and he has not, as Lewis 
frequently reminds his victims, “a single 
legal claim for a penny.” If the record as 
it stands is not just a common, ordinary 
swindle, we would like some one to de¬ 
fine just what is a swindle. 
and 
now my only hope is in your success in fret¬ 
ting this money for me, as 1 have done all 
1 can do. My soul is exceedingly sad to 
think I am the cause of so much trouble for 
the old lady. The sooner I learn for sure 
that it is lost the sooner will this miserable 
existence close. E. G. Lewis lias not replied 
to one of mv entreaties. He lias not asked 
to have more time. He simply kept the 
money and the note alio. Please do what 
vou can for me as soon as possible. 
I wrote Mr. Lewis on February 18, 1.M0, 
bv registered mail that I would commence 
suit in ten days if not paid. The ten days 
have expired. Now if you and your attor¬ 
neys tt»ink there is a chance of getting this 
money, for God’s sake, do so. It is 1 not my 
money, but belongs to an old lady 90 years 
old and how I came to give it to Lewis is 
more than I can tell. The advertisement is 
what did it. beed verguson. 
Towanda, Pa. 
What do the women who have been 
collecting money for Lewis think of 
the state of affairs revealed in the above 
complaint? \Vhat do the confiding 
publishers, who have associated them¬ 
selves with him, think of it? What 
do the respectable instructors, both 
men and women, whose names Lewis 
has catalogued as affiliated with him, 
think of it? What possible excuse or 
apology can anybody make for such a 
state of affairs? . . 
Let it be remembered that this is a 
transaction of less than two years ago; 
that the notes were sent in exchange for 
cash. Note that the promise was to 
pay the notes in cash if he wished it. 
Note the alluring promises for dividends 
on the practically worthless stock. Mr. 
Lewis cannot complain that he is un¬ 
able to meet these obligations because 
of the Government’s interference with 
his bank or with his. publishing company. 
This money was received less than two 
years ago, and there have been no fraud 
orders issued against him since that 
time, and we find no record of any 
Government restrictions against him 
since that time. Be it also remembered 
that this is only one of forty-odd sim- 
iliar complaints that we have against 
Mr. Lewis, and that the aggregate of 
these complaints is about $20,000. Mr. 
Lewis thinks we have no right to make 
a demand for the payment of these ac¬ 
counts, and his answer to the demand 
is a libel suit for $560,000. We have 
not the slightest doubt the public de¬ 
mand for the payment of these accounts 
will keep other people from sending 
him their savings, and as Mr. 
Lewis seems to think he is entitled to 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—Edwin S. Holmes, Jr., for¬ 
mer associate statistician of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, indicted in 190o for 
misconduct in office in connection with the 
“cotton statistics leak," pleaded guilty June 
29 in Criminal Court No. 1, at Washington, 
D. C. He was tim'd $5,000, which he paid. 
Holmes denied that he was guilty of any 
conspiracy to defraud the United States, 
hut said that his counsel hud advised him 
to plead guilty to the technical violation 
known as “misconduct in otliee.” There is 
still pending an indictment in New York 
in the same ease against Theodore 11. 
Price, known as the “cotton king.” When 
Price was arrested in New York it was 
agreed between counsel that the New York 
charge would stand or fall with the result 
of his trial in this jurisdiction. 
At least 12 were drowned and 30 are re¬ 
ported missing as the result of a cloud¬ 
burst at the headwaters of the Licking 
Kiver, at Salyersville, Magoffin County, in 
Eastern Kentucky, June 29. Nearly two- 
score buildings were destroyed and 80 more 
badly damaged by the raging currents. The 
river rose 40 feet in as many minutes. 
George Hart, a bricklayer at Boulder, 
Mont., fired a rifle shot into a powder 
magazine owned by the Graves Mercantile 
Company in the heart of the town, causing 
an explosion of dynamite by which three 
persons were killed outright and many 
seriously injured. Hart and his family and 
fellow laborers were strangers in Moulder, 
and it is presumed that he was not aware 
that explosives were stored in the old ;>u‘kl- 
iug into which he was shooting. It is es¬ 
timated that nearly a ton of dynamite ex¬ 
ploded. 
A free and unrestricted public riot in 
which milk bottles were the weapons took 
place at midnight July 1 at the milk plat¬ 
form in the Eria Railroad station, Jersey 
City. The fighters were the Erie freight 
men who handle the milk and drivers lor 
the Borden Company. Twenty-three men, 
of w'iOm 21 are Borden drivers, were 
arrested. Six men, all Erie freight hand¬ 
lers, were taken to the hospitals. One had 
eight cuts on his head where as many milk 
bottles had struck him. It took two 
batches of police reserves to stop the tight, 
which seems to have resulted from bad feel¬ 
ing of long standing. The milk wagons 
were left driverless. 
The Sangamon County. Ill., Grand Jury 
July 1 returned a second indictment against 
State Senator John Broderick, of Chicago, 
in relation to legislative bribery. Brod¬ 
erick is indicted on 17 counts Instead ot 
12 as in the original indictment. He is 
charged with bribing State Senator D. \V. 
HoltSlaw, of Iuka, and paying the latter 
82 500 to vote for Lorlmer for United 
States Senator and $700 in the legislative 
“jackpot” matter. State Attorney Burke 
also seeks a bill against Senator Stanton 
C. Pemberton, of Oakland, and Representa¬ 
tive Joseph C. v-iark, of Vandaiia, on the 
charge of conspiracy to bribe. It is alleged 
that Pemberton and Clark entered into a 
conspiracy with A. It. Johnston, of Spring- 
field, to let the contract for the new desks 
and chairs for the Senate chamber and 
House of Representatives to the Ford & 
Johnson Company, of Chicago, the highest 
bidders. 
No direct nominations bill was passed at 
the special session of the New York Legis¬ 
lature which adjourned July 1, and no new 
legislative probe investigating resolution 
was passed. The only one of the three 
questions recommended for the considera¬ 
tion of the Legislature by Gov. Hughes on 
which the Legislature took favorable action 
was the passage of a graded inheritance 
tax bill which it is estimated will increase 
the State’s revenue annually about $4,000,- 
000. The Legislature also passed a bill 
appropriating $25,000 for the expenses of 
the extraordinary session called by Gov. 
Hughes, hut these expenses will lie in the 
neighborhood of $40,000, the balance to 
come out of unexpended legislative funds. 
The manager of the Rat Portage Lumber 
Company, of Winnipeg, estimates that the 
company’s loss by hush fires that jumped 
the Rainy Kiver July 1 will exceed $2,000. 
000 The Atikoan Lumber Company's mill 
at Atikoan. Ontario, and the steamship 
Majestic on Rainy River were destroyed 
Julie 30. The little lakes were alive with 
moose seeking safety from the flames. Bush 
fires invaded the towns of Devlin and La- 
valles, June 30, although hundreds of set¬ 
tlers and railwav men tried to fight them 
off. The Canadian Northern Railway sta¬ 
tion, the Ontario Hotel, Cook's sawmill, 
stores and houses at Devlin were destroyed. 
The tires jumped the Rainy River from the 
American side at Emo, Out. East of Fort 
Frances for a distance of 100 miles there 
were nothing but hush fires. Hundreds of 
settlers have lost their property. Clear 
Lake, Wis., was in imminent danger of be¬ 
ing destroyed by forest fires July 1. A de¬ 
tachment of firemen with lire fighting ap¬ 
paratus saved tin 1 town. Forest fires in 
the Keweenaw district in upper Michigan 
are doing serious damage. The Copper 
Range Railroad station at Elm River was 
destroyed by forest fires July 1. Fifty for¬ 
est fires were burning in northern Minnesota 
on that date. Many are on the ground 
which has been turned over in recent 
years. Fire wiped out the town of Mizpali, 
Minn., July 1. The loss is estimated at 
$60,000. Heavy damage from forest fires is 
reported from th* country north and west 
of Bcmidji, Minn. 
Melville W. Fuller, Chief Justice of the 
United States Supreme Court, died at his 
Summer home at Sorrento, Me., July 4. Jus¬ 
tice Fuller had long suffered from Bright’s 
disease and his death was due to heart 
failure brought on by that disorder. Jus¬ 
tice Fuller hud spent his summers at Sor¬ 
rento for many years. Melville Weston Ful¬ 
ler had been Chief Justice of the United 
States Supreme Court a little less than 22 
years, having been appointed by President 
Cleveland in April, 1888, to succeed Jus¬ 
tice Morrison R. Waite. He took the oath 
of office on October 8 of that year. Jus¬ 
tice Fuller was the seventh Chief Justice 
of the Supreme Court, and but two of his 
predecessors held office for a longer period. 
John Marshall, of Virginia, served 34 years, 
and Roger B. Taney, of Maryland, and of 
Dred Scott decision fame, 28 years. Jus¬ 
tice Fuller, although appointed to the bench 
from Illinois and therefore hailing from 
further west than his predecessors, was by 
birth and ancestry a New Englander. He 
was born in Augusta, Me., on February 11, 
1833. llis father, Frederick A. Fuller, was 
a lawyer, and his mother was a daughter 
of Chief Justice Nathan Weston. After 
graduation from Bowdoin in 1853 he stud¬ 
ied law in the office of his uncle, George 
M. Weston, at Bangor, and attended lec¬ 
tures in law at Harvard. He was admitted 
to the bar in 1850 and began practice in 
Augusta, where lie was. elected to the city 
council and also for a time served as city 
attorney. 
The town of Benton, in Columbia County, 
Pa., was ha-f destroyed by lire July 4, 60 
buildings being consumed witli a loss of 
$300,000. The fire was started by fire¬ 
crackers, which ignited the hay in a barn. 
A strong wind swept the flames through 
the business part of the town and the lire 
department could do little to stay the pro¬ 
gress of the fire, which finally burned itself 
out. The principal buildings destroyed 
were the post office, the Columbia County 
Bank, the Exchange Hotel and the People’s 
Department Store, together with over 50 
dwellings. Forty families are homeless. 
Mrs. Rosa Hess, an aged woman, was fa¬ 
tally burned. 
As the result of a cloudburst at Winches¬ 
ter, Ky., July 4, the town was Hooded and 
three negro children in the negro part of 
the town were drowned. The storm broke 
almost without warning and residents were 
forced to flee without their effects. The 
rainfall continued for an hour and it is es¬ 
timated that loss to property will be near 
$ 100 , 000 . 
Nineteen oersons were killed outright, 
four fatallv hurt, and 30 others injured in 
a head-on collision between a freight and 
passenger train on the Cincinnati, Hamil¬ 
ton and Dayton Railroad at Middletown, 
O., July 4. ‘Of the killed 18 were passen¬ 
gers, the other victim being a member of 
the passenger train crew. The wrecked 
passenger train was the west-bound Twen¬ 
tieth Century Limited from New Y’ork, 
bound for Cincinnati, on the Big Four, 
which on account of a wreck at Sharon, 
I’a., had been routed over the Cincinnati, 
Hamilton and Dayton. North of Middle- 
town tlie passenger collided head-on witli a 
north-bound freight train. Orders had been 
given, it was said, for "clear track' for 
the Big Four train, which left Dayton ten 
minutes behind time and which was trying 
to make up the lost time. When the en¬ 
gines crashed one crushed through the com¬ 
bination baggage and smoking ear and a 
day coach which was largely filled with 
women. '1 liese cars were tossed about, 
turned over and rolled down the embank¬ 
ment on the east side of the track. Several 
other ears were derailed, tint it was not 
thought that any of the passengers in these 
ears were killed, although some were 
wounded by flying glass, timbers and gen¬ 
eral shock. A seven-months-old baby, alive 
and unharmed, was found in a nearby corn¬ 
field the following day, when 
hurled from tire train. 
Fire July 4 in the lumber 
Standard Oil Company’s big 
Oswego. N. Y., destroyed between 10 and 
12 million feet of lumber, having a value of 
$ 200 , 000 . 
Fire July 5 destroyed the plant of the 
Manhattan' Ribbon Company on River 
street, Paterson, N. J., entailing a loss of 
from $250,000 to $300,000. The origin of 
the fire is unknown. The mill was a large 
brick building adjoining other big mills, 
tint the latter were saved, although the em¬ 
ployees were in panic and it was necessary 
to close down all the mills in the vicinity. 
it had been 
piles of the 
box shop at 
FARM AND GARDEN.—A Farm Bureau 
has been established as a permanent de¬ 
partment of its work by the Binghamton, 
N. Y., Chamber of Commerce. This resulted 
from several conferences on the subject be¬ 
tween Dr. W. J. Spillman, Chief of the 
Office of Farm Management of the Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture at Washington ; R. A. 
Pearson, Commissioner of Agriculture of 
tin' State of New Y ork: Dr. J. H. YVebber, 
Director and other members of the faculty 
of the New York State College of Agricul¬ 
ture at t ornell University. The Bureau 
will he under the direction of a graduate 
of one of tlie loading agricultural colleges 
of the country who has had four years of 
actual farm experience in addition to his 
education. Under the direction of the State 
College of Agriculture a complete Farm 
Survey of the territory will lie made which 
will lav bare tlie problems requiring atten¬ 
tion. Tlie bureau will operate for a few 
months without cost to the farmers a Cow 
Testing Association for demonstration pur¬ 
poses. It is expected that through this 
work the average production of the cows in 
each dairv will he raised so that the farm¬ 
ers will see the advantages of such an as¬ 
sociation and organize and maintain these 
associations themselves. 
The Summer meeting of the New Jersey 
State Horticultural Society will be held at 
the home of Horace Roberts, near Moores- 
town, N. J., July 27, 1910. A “Round 
Table Talk” will be started at 11 o'clock 
for the discussion of tlie important topics 
of the season. After lunch, for which a 
moderate charge will be made, opportunity 
will be given to visit the peach orchards 
of Barton Bros., and others in tlie neigh¬ 
borhood. Conveyances will be at West 
Moorestown to meet tlie train leaving Mar¬ 
ket Street Wharf at 9.OS, Camden at 8.15, 
and at Main and Church streets to meet 
trolley from Camden ferry at 9.38. How¬ 
ard G. Taylor, Secretary, Riverton P. O., 
N. J. _ 
THE FRUIT CROP. 
Peaches in this section are a full crop, 
and indications are that they will be supe¬ 
rior in quality. Apples art very uneven. 
Some Baldwin and King orchards promise 
full crops, but the crop on tlie whole is 
light, Greenings especially so. Pears are 
generally reported very light, and plums 
are much below the average. 
Niagara Co., N. Y\ w. t. Manx. 
Apples, peaches, pears, plums and cher¬ 
ries were practically ruined here by tlie 
May freezes so that there will be no crop. 
Strawberries bore about one-half. There 
are no raspberries, hut about two-thirds of 
a crop of blackberries. Grapes will be very 
scarce. Garden truck has done well since 
tlie cold weather in May. Corn lias made a 
wonderful growth in the past 19 days and 
will all be laid by in another week. The 
prospect is for a fair crop, but not a 
bumper yield. Wheat is ready to cut, and 
is looking fine, as is also oats. Pastures 
are good. e. m. m. 
Cerro Gordo, Ill. 
The fruit crop in this vicinity promises 
very light, with peaches one-eighth to one- 
fourth of a crop, principally Elbertas. 
Pears one-third, Bartlett and Kelffer. 
Apples one-fourth. Duchess seem the most 
plentiful. Cherries one-half, selling at $1.80 
to $2 per crate of 16 quarts. The grape 
crop after the many frosts we had prom¬ 
ised about one-half a crop. Recently tlie 
Rose hugs have in some localities destroyed 
the crop and in places it will be a com¬ 
plete failure. Raspberries and blackberries 
a very good crop, but suffering very much 
from the dry weather. The muskmclon 
crop is looking very good and promises well 
if we get the right sort of weather, e. h. 
St. Joseph, Mich. 
We are having a severe hot and dry 
spell down here and rain is badly needed. 
The cool rainy weather in May and early 
June kept tilings back so that roasting ears 
are not quite ready July 4 and tomatoes 
are just beginning to turn. Early potatoes 
are ripe and line. Tlie cool wet weather 
gave us peas longer than usual. We have 
had them on the table since the first of 
May, and have just picked the last of the 
Champion of England. We do not often 
have peas till July here. Our growers had 
a very profitable season with strawberries, 
but I fear the enormous crop of Irish po¬ 
tatoes will not lie profitable. Our road here 
lias been carrying about 20,000 barrels 
daily for some time from Cape Charles 
northward, and tlie great Norfolk crop is 
going largely by water. It is evident that 
Virginia and the Peninsula are planting 
too many early potatoes. Crimson clover 
seed is up to $10 a bushel, as the crop 
was a failure from wet. I hope that the 
imported seed may be lower. 
Maryland. w. f. massey. 
The fruit crop in this vicinity is not of 
much account under the best of conditions ; 
there is no fruit grown in Orleans County 
in a commercial way, in fact there is not 
nearly enough to supply local demands. 
Apples, such as we have, promise about a 
normal crop. Strawberries are just in their 
prime now, and. are a large crop, of good 
quality. Raspberries and blackberries prom¬ 
ise big yields. No pears, plums or cherries 
grown. ' Farm crops, though late, are prom¬ 
ising, excepting corn, which will require an 
unusually late Fall to mature. The hay 
crop promises the best for several years. 
Oats look well, potatoes, though backward, 
are just now coming on finely. This being 
pre-eminently a dairy county, the prospect 
for a satisfactory season is good. Pastures 
are good, forage crops look well, and prices 
for milk and cream are at tlie top notch in 
comparison with other seasons, the one 
greatest drawback perhaps being the fact 
that owing to the drought of the past two 
years, and consequent shortage of feed, 
dairymen have been compelled to dispose of 
part of their cows, which now they find 
most impossible to replace at any reason¬ 
able price; consequently many pastures are 
only partially stocked, and a few with no 
stock whatever. w. e. h. 
Orleans Co., Vt. 
I read your weather and berry talks 
with much interest as they strike my con¬ 
ditions. Last year we had an extra crop. 
Some customers suggested they should lie 
sold by the dozen instead of per quart. 
This vear with one-third more ground I 
have 'sold three-fifths as many berries. 
March 1 the weather began; it was 
warm, warmer, warmest, until middle 
of April. Strawberry rows were perfect. 
I had used phosphoric acid and potash last 
Fall, mulched witli stable manure and 
cleanings from henhouses, during Winter 
quite heavily. When the cool wet weather 
came how the vines did grow, covered 
blossoms, fruit, the whole ground. We have 
had spoiled rotten berries, all kinds of 
trouble and complaints, yet other things 
are making good. We got two tons rye hay 
from 70 rods; of Alfalfa got 1600 pounds 
good hay June 3, and now, July 3, a heavy 
second crop almost ready to cut. All fruit 
hushes and trees are making an extra 
growth. The weather lias been fine and 
quite warm for past 10 days. Oats have 
made heavv growth of straw find are head¬ 
ing well. 'Winter grain is ripening slowly, 
10 days late. Hay is about as usual, some 
fields' good, others hardly worth cutting. 
Corn is now looking fine. Pastures still 
quite good. A heavy seeding of buckwheat 
will go in this week. »• Y. 
Standing Stone, I’a. 
ClIF.KBIF.S AND BlKDS. - 1 think WO hilVO 
made a hit worth telling. We have discov¬ 
ered how to have from the robins a few 
sweet cherries for faimily use. Plant an 
bx-heart and a Y’ellow Spanish cherry tree 
in close proximity. Watch the maturing of 
the fruit eloselv and just as the robins are 
busy finishing the last of the Ox-hearts, 
make a rush for the Y’ellow Spanish anil 
gather them in. They may not be quite as 
ripe as you would like them, blit they are 
excellent canned or in pies. J. ir. s. 
