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S CARLET FEVER.—The children are 
all right, progressing well through 
their tedious siege. As I stated 
last week we turned the old house 
into a hospital. The two children are 
there with a nurse and will stay there 
until the doctor says “come out.” Food 
is passed in to them, and they are kept 
comfortable with every precaution against 
spreading the disease. Our own house 
has been fumigated and the other children 
are not sick. In case of a contagious dis¬ 
ease of this sort I think there are two 
family duties which come first. Get a 
good doctor and do just exactly what he 
says. Then take every possible precau¬ 
tion to prevent the spread of the disease. 
I have already had a number of letters 
from people who say the doctors do not 
know and who advise all sorts of methods 
and treatments. Well, gentlemen, I raise 
no objection whatever to what you see fit 
to do to yourselves and your children. 
You may try all the experiments you 
please, but when it comes to sickness in 
our family I get as far from experiment 
as I can. There is too much danger from 
deafness, blindness, kidney trouble and 
other complications to play with scarlet 
fever. As for scattering the disease I 
have heard of cases wnere children were 
sent to school right along with light cases 
of the disease! I am well aware that 
there are some well-meant and violent 
people who denounce vaccination and doc¬ 
tors’ care generally. I think most of 
them are honest and I have no argument 
with them. They may do as they like 
with their own children, and all T ask is 
that they grant us the same privilege to 
care for our children. Our little folks 
will stay right in that room until the dis¬ 
ease has run its course. No one likes to 
be held a prisoner. This old stone house, 
150 years or more old, has seen many 
things both sober and stirring. If its 
low-walled rooms could talk what a story 
they could tell. A poet or a novelist con¬ 
fined within this old house might enliven 
his waiting hours by calling up pictures 
of the shades which come back to their 
old home and sit with him through the 
lonely days and silent nights. Our boys 
are not poets and they care little for 
shades. They just have to wait with 
what patience they can muster until the 
siege is over. We miss them. Some¬ 
thing seems wrong with my work. 1 
could not understand what it was until 1 
saw that what I missed was the annoy¬ 
ance of being interrupted by noise and 
questions, and of having my books and 
papers upset and put out of place! 
Hens and Weather. —Washington’s 
Birthday was like a day in middle April 
—sunny and warm. I have known this 
holiday to come to us with great drifts 
of snow and zero weather. We are pro¬ 
gressing, and the trees are evidently be¬ 
ginning to wake up and show the color of 
life. At about this time every year we 
begin to worry more or less about the 
peach buds. This warm sun starts them 
and Jack Frost will be only too glad to 
steal out of the North a little later and 
catch them open. It is too warm now 
for safety, but I hope for a month of 
cooler weather before the buds start too 
far out. We have had something of a 
crop on our hills every year, and I shall 
keep on expecting peaches until the trees 
fail to bloom.Our hens are tuning 
up properly. I am comparing the record 
of our 11 Reds with the pens at the con¬ 
test. They were a little slow to start, 
but now give 5 or 0 eggs per day. They 
have been mated with a cockerel that 
has an egg pedigree hard to beat. Ilis 
mother and both grandmothers were hens 
with noted records, and if there is any¬ 
thing in the theory that the hen passes 
her good qualities on through her sons 
the daughters of “Redman” ought to be 
good ones. Our plan is to obtain a good 
number of chicks from this mating, push 
them along through the Summer and in 
the Fall enter 10 of the best pullets at the 
egg-laying contest. Then by selecting and 
testing and obtaining the best layers we 
can find we hope to build up a strain of 
laying birds that will be worth while. 
There is nothing easy about it. and the 
road winds up against many disappoint¬ 
ments and failures, but I think this is 
the way to go at it. 
THE KUKAL 
Why not advise fruit growers to keep 
more hogs? They are good workers in an 
apple orchard. j. b. r. 
Like everything else the hog has his 
good and bad points. Some people think 
they can turn a drove of hogs into an 
apple orchard—let them alone and turn 
off several tons of pork in the Fall. Try 
it if you think disappointment is good 
discipline. Left to himself, without 
proper food and care a hog would ruin an 
apple tree. lie will tear up the ground 
around it, break off the roots and do mis¬ 
chief generally with his snout. Then he 
will rub against the tree until the bark is 
scraped off and gnaw around the trunk 
like a rabbit. He does all this to prove 
that he is not properly fed and cared for. 
It is his nature to rub and scratch. Why 
not work with nature by driving three 
stout stakes into the ground around the 
tree? The hog can rub these stakes to 
his heart’s content and do no damage. 
He gnaws the bark and digs because his 
food is lacking in bone-forming food and 
“tonics.” Keep a box containing wood 
ashes, salt and sulphur where he can al¬ 
ways get to it. Let him have a full sup¬ 
ply of charcoal and feed him a little 
wheat bran with his corn. It will pay to 
feed a hog in an orchard about as we 
feed dry mash to our hens. Let him help 
himself. A hog knows when he has 
enough, and with a variety of food and a 
place to work and dig he will take care 
of the windfall apples and make pork. 
But what will you do with the pork after 
he makes it? Before you start in with a 
drove of hogs make sure of a market. 
Under our present system of distribution 
small quantities of meat are hard to dis¬ 
pose of unless you can develop some re¬ 
tail trade. Some people are greatly prej¬ 
udiced against the hog. We find him a 
useful animal, provided you can work up 
a market for the pork. 
Cover Crops. —This warm weather 
makes the rye and vetch show up. That’s 
one great thing about rye. It is a tough, 
hardy plant, and every little sunny time 
starts it along. Though the growth 
above ground may seem small if you 
could get down into the soil you would be 
astonished at the root growth. The net- 
work of roots extends all over the soil and 
fills it completely. Last Fall when the 
question of potash for this season’s crops 
began to look serious we urged all who 
could to sow cover crops and particularly 
rye and turnips. I feel very sure that 
turnips are able to feed on the stores of 
potash in the soil where many other 
plants would have to be fed. At any rate 
the living crops growing on through Fall 
and Winter will save loss of various kinds 
of plant food. When the green crop is 
plowed under in Spring the chemical 
action started by its fermentation will, if 
handled properly, make the soil give up 
something of its fertility. Thus, if T had 
my way, every fruit and garden farm, at 
least, would be covered with a thick, 
living crop. 
Wiiat To Do With It. —Briefly stated 
the object is to plow this mass of green 
stuff into the soil, pack it down hard and 
then use lime. Home will be tempted this 
year of high prices to let the rye form 
grain and harvest it as such. I shall do 
nothing of the sort. We have started out 
with a definite plan of stuffing our soil 
with humus and this must be done with 
cover crops if at all. It is a mistake to 
be switched away from a definite plan by 
a temporary rise in grain. Far better 
stick right to your fruit, and plow the 
cover crop under. 
When to plow it under will depend on 
the season very largely. With a wet 
Spring and the soil full of moisture we 
let the rye stand until shoulder high, at 
least. If the season is dry, it will pay 
better in the end to put the rye under 
while knee high, for if it stand too long 
in a dry season the moisture will be 
sucked out of the soil, and all crops will 
suffer. As soon as it is under pack the 
soil hard with a plank drag or a roller 
The object of this is to crush the crop 
which you have plowed under down into 
a solid mass If left loose and open the 
air will work in too freely and dry out 
the soil and also cause a rapid fermen¬ 
tation which will sour the soil. 
Use Ltme. —I think it pays to use lime 
on our farm whenever a green crop is 
plowed under Our soil is naturally sour 
and hard. The lime sweetens it and helps 
break up the soil and it also hastens decay 
of the cover crop. Of course, I know 
that we are told by some good writers 
that we should not plan to use up this 
organic matter rapidly, but store it up in 
the soil—like treasures stored up in 
Heaven I presume. It always seemed to 
me that the best way to store up these 
heavenly treasures is to make our earthly 
treasures rapidly available. So when I 
plow annual cover crops into the soil I 
want to make them active at once. That 
is what we put them there for. So I use 
an active form of lime—yearly applica¬ 
tions of about GOO pounds per acre This 
is harrowed in after plowing under the 
cover crop. In this way we have not 
found it necessary to buy manure or in 
fact to use it except on the garden fields 
near the buildings. I find it hard to make 
some of our people believe that a cover 
crop grown through Fall and Winter and 
plowed under each year, with lime, will 
take the place of manure if the proper 
chemicals are used with it. Yet the cover 
crop will certainly do this, and it is one 
of the things which the Eastern fruit 
grower must come to in order to keep up 
with the game. it. w. c. 
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