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little  fun  in  boiling  or  stewing  for  hours 
waiting  for  a  bite.  I  would  rather  hoe 
strawberries.  Now  and  then  we  plunge  a 
little  on  food.  On  my  daughter’s  birth¬ 
day  I  treated  the  crowd  to  ice  cream  and 
bought  doughnuts  at  the  village  bakery. 
Then  we  were  able  to  buy  a  big  steak 
one  night.  The  boys  built  a  big  fire  out¬ 
doors  and  broiled  or  burned  this  piece  of 
meat  so  well  that  it  kept  the  woman  busy 
eating  her  share  of  it.  Our  little  vaca¬ 
tion  is  about  over,  and  we  must  soon  get 
back  into  the  harness  once  more.  The 
children  will  go  back  to  school.  My 
daughter  will  take  off  her  kitchen  apron 
and  resume  her  dignified  profession’s 
gown,  and  Mother  and  I  will  take  up  our 
old  job  of  providing  and  serving  the  pan¬ 
cakes  of  life  to  our  big  family. 
The  situation  in  New  Jersey  is  not  all 
that  we  would  like.  The  terrible  drought 
has  burned  our  crops  crisp.  I  have  been 
unable  to  get  any  strawberry  plants.  Half 
our  Spring  planting  has  died.  We  put 
out  about  2,000  Fall-bearing  plants,  but 
thus  far  there  has  not  been  a  quart  of 
ripe  berries !  Elberta  peaches  which 
should  have  been  as  large  as  your  two 
fists  are  ripening  at  about  walnut  size. 
Luce’s  Favorite  corn,  which  usually 
grows  seven  to  eight  feet  high,  is  tasseled 
out  at  three  feet.  The  apples  are  falling 
— Oh,  I  could  go  on  for  a  page  or  more, 
but  what’s  the  use?  Let’s  look  for  some¬ 
thing  good !  It  has  been  great  hay  weath¬ 
er,  and  for  the  first  time  in  several  years 
we  have  been  able  to  keep  a  couple  of 
fields  perfectly  clean  of  weeds.  Just  the 
place,  that  will  be,  for  planting  straw¬ 
berries  next'  year  !  This  continued  sun¬ 
shine  has  kept  us  all  in  splendid  health, 
and  here  is  an  advantage  that  will  appeal 
to  all  Jerseymen.  There  is  hardly  a  mos¬ 
quito  to  be  heard  or  felt  in  all  our  neigh¬ 
borhood.  You  see,  these  pests  thrive  in 
moist  weather.  They  cannot  endure  per¬ 
petual  sunshine  such  as  we  have  had  this 
year.  Our  pen  of  Red  pullets  at  the  egg- 
laying  contest  has  proved  a  little  way¬ 
ward.  They  led  the  procession  of  Red 
hens  at  all  the  contests  up  to  August  1. 
Then  they  got  sleepy  and  let  Pen  17  get 
by  them.  They  are  not  out  of  the  race 
yet.  They  will  come  up  before  November 
1.  In  any  event,  I  want  the  best  pen  to 
win.  And  so,  while  we  know  the  coming 
year  has  many  trials  and  perplexities  for 
all  of  us,  we  are  going  home  to  face  them 
with  a  good  heart.  After  all,  life  is  some¬ 
thing  like  a  plate  of  pancakes.  ’■It  is 
served  up  to  us  as  the  result  of  thousands 
of  happenings  over  which  we  have  no 
control.  It  goes  without  saying  that 
we  can  all  keep  the  woman  busy,  but  we 
would  better  look  around  and  find  some 
constant  employment  for  ourselves. 
H.  W.  C. 
Frames  for  Soup  Greens 
I  wi^h  to  make  some  cellar  frames  to 
have  soup  greens  for  the  Winter,  and  to 
transplant  for  the  Spring.  Will  you  in¬ 
form  me  how  to  do  this?  j.  L. 
If  J.  L.  wants  soup  greens  for  Winter 
use,  a  cellar  window  frame  is  very  un¬ 
satisfactory.  If  he  will  make  a  frame 
3x6  ft.  and  set  on  top  of  ground  in  some 
sheltered  spot,  say  on  the  south  side  of 
the  barn  or  shed,  or  build  a  board  protec¬ 
tion  to  keep  .off  the  north  and  west  winds, 
put  a  3x6-ft.  sash  on  when  freezing  wea¬ 
ther  comes,  and  throw  a  mat  over  sash 
at  night,  he  can  have  soup  greens — 
parsley,  I  suppose  he  means — all  Winter, 
and  besides  he  will  not  have  to  set  it  out 
in  the  Spring,  as  all  he  will  have  to  do 
as  soon  as  the  weather  is  warm  is  to  re¬ 
move  the  sash  and  he  will  have  a  bounti¬ 
ful  supply  all  Spring  and  Summer.  The 
seed  should  be  sown  about  August  1.  If 
J.  L.  will  enlarge  his  frame  and  sow 
spinach  and  kale  he  can  have  greens  also 
all  Winter.  If  he  cannot  do  this,  a  box 
the  length  of  cellar  window,  3  ft.  wide, 
nailed  up  close  to  the  window,  will  give  a 
limited  supply.  The  earth  in  box  should 
be  at  least  6  in.  deep.  w.  p. 
Cats  Catch  Moles 
As  to  moles,  we  find  no  trap  so  good 
as  our  pet  cats.  Mornings  my  husband 
finds  the  moles  dead,  and  through  the  day 
they  will  bring  them  home.  Our  lawn 
was  mined.  They  will  not  eat  them,  but 
like  to  catch  them.  I  have  heard  moth 
balls  placed  in  holes  where  they  are  is  a 
preventive,  but  have  had  no  need  to  try 
them.  m.  p. 
Poultry  and  Plum  Curculio 
'If  J.  A.  A.,  page  1017,  will  put  a 
fence  around  his  plum  trees  and  have  a 
flock  of  chickens,  his  curculio  trouble 
will  disappear.  If  the  trees  are  in  sod, 
it  will  be  necessary  to  dig  around  them 
to  give  the  chicks  an  opportunity  to  dig 
out  the  pupa.  f.  c.  c. 
Vicar’s  Daughter  :  “I’m  sorry  you 
don’t  like  the  vicar’s  sermons,  William. 
What  is  the  matter  with  them?  Are  they 
too  long?  William:  “Yes,  miss.  Your 
curate,  ’e  says,  ‘in  conclusion,’  and  ’e  do 
conclude.  But  t’  vicar  says,  ‘lastly,’  and 
’e  do  last.” — The  Watchdog. 
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