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Making the Farm Pay 
(Continued from page 64) 
Each tree had received all the in¬ 
dividual attention it ever had in the 
past seasons, and the cost of care per 
tree was reduced from 10 cents to 
about 7 cents. 
Eliminating the Aphis 
The year previous the woolly aphis 
had put in an appearance through 
some infected trees shipped to us 
from a nursery. Most of this in¬ 
fected stock had been shipped back, 
but a few trees were overlooked in 
planting, and the trouble began to 
spread. Root sprouts here and there 
showed that the aphis were on the 
roots of several trees. This spring 
each tree in the entire orchard was 
treated to a cupful of tobacco dust 
sprinkled about its roots 3" or 4" 
below the ground when it was dug 
about to be examined for borers. 
The expense for the tobacco is 
counted in with the regular care of 
the trees, but it will not have to be 
repeated this year as all traces of 
the woolly aphis are entirely re¬ 
moved. The tabulation for the com¬ 
plete upkeep expense of the orchard 
through its first sod-mulch year fol¬ 
lows : 
March and April pruning.... $61.35 
Rolling in spring to settle sod. 22.80 
Dormant spray in March, sec¬ 
ond spray in May (labor) .. 81.20 
Spray materials . 29.10 
Spring borers hunted, trees 
painted, tobacco dust put in, 
roots dug about. 60.70 
10 gals, lime-sulphur for above 2.20 
3,400 lbs. tobacco dust @ $9 
per ton . 15.30 
Cutting rye and weeds where 
hand work was required.... 17.40 
Mowing orchard three times. . 87.15 
Fall borers hunted, trees 
painted and hilled up for 
winter . 80.16 
Total expense for year.$457.36 
Having decided that there is little 
but laborer’s wage in farming for 
the man who does not specialize, and 
that apples were to be our only spe¬ 
cialty, we concluded to reduce expense 
on the farm as much as might be 
feasible and wait for the apple crop. 
A few apples from the four-year-old 
filler trees showed promise of better 
things to come. Meanwhile we used 
the men’s spare time to raise as 
much as possible of the food and bed¬ 
ding for the stock on the place, thus 
getting back the wages that would 
otherwise be non-productive, reduc¬ 
ing the money outlay for supplies, and 
saving team time that would have 
been necessary to haul supplies. 
As the young apple trees were our 
first care the crops were neglected 
now and then in favor of pressing 
orchard work; hence we harvested 
no extra quantities or qualities. 
We adopted a small neglected or¬ 
chard and worked it on shares for the 
immediate fruit harvest. From this 
came a medium grade of fruit in re¬ 
turn for the first year’s work, but it 
kept us all in apples for a year, and 
so the crop was money earned. 
Itemizing the results of the harvest: 
Fodder corn (not valued) 
Hay, 30 tons.$450.00 
Oats, 220 bushels . 88.00 
Oat straw, 14 tons . 140.00 
Potatoes, 225 bushels . 229.50 
Apples, 35 bushels . 17.50 
Cider, 10 gallons . 6.00 
Mangel-wurzels, 17 bushels.... 8.50 
Carrots, 24 bushels . 12.00 
Total value of returns. .$951.50 
Outlay for year on orchard 
upkeep .$457.36 
Outlay for year on crops. 420.65 
$878.01 
Total receipts .$951.50 
Expense, orchard and crops.. 878.01 
Earned on summer work.$73.49 
The fodder corn was cut and used 
green, lasting the stock through Octo¬ 
ber, but its value is uncertain. How- 
ever, it more than paid for the seeds 
planted in the spring. We already 
had the seed potatoes stored from 
the crop of the previous season. 
Furnishing the Hospitable Hall 
(Continued from page 51) 
circular, can be treated in the same 
manner, but the greatest care should 
be taken to attach the scrim smoothly 
on the semi-circle and to draw it very 
taut and even at the center. The 
gathers may be concealed by a small 
semi-circular piece of buckram cov¬ 
ered with scrim. This makes a neat 
finish to a difficult hall door treatment. 
Arranging the Furniture 
Also much can be done to enlarge 
the appearance of a small hall by the 
furniture arrangement. In many 
apartments the hall is long and nar¬ 
row. Therefore, any piece of furni¬ 
ture that “sticks out” is a nuisance. 
A long, narrow table—while the ob¬ 
jection may be made against it that 
it accents the length of the hall—is 
at best a convenient place for a card 
tray, a bowl of flowers, a hat and 
stick. Its length may be broken by 
throwing across it a piece of old 
fabric. At either end of the table 
may be placed a high back, narrow- 
ish chair of William and Mary pat¬ 
tern. No piece of furniture should 
be placed on the opposite wall, else 
we should have to serpentine down 
the length of the hall in passing. 
There are many attractive con¬ 
soles that look well in a hall of any 
proportion. Used as a pair, sage 
green with stripings of tan and dull 
gold, with a formal glass compote 
of •similar tone Venetian glass, they 
lend a nice finish to a carefully con¬ 
ditioned hall. The compote may be 
flanked on either side by a pair of 
Venetian glass candlesticks in amber 
and green, or we may use a pair of 
Adam mahogany consoles finished to 
a very high tone, supporting a pair of 
graceful alabaster vases. White 
Wedgwood, either china or pottery 
may be substituted for the alabaster. 
After visualizing such effects can 
we regret the passing of the hatrack 
and the plate rail ? The accumula¬ 
tion of coats and wraps may be put 
into the hall closet where a shelf 
built 4" or 5" from the floor can hold 
the rubbers and arctics that used to 
cluster like so many chicks around the 
feet of the motherly hatrack. 
Another hall abomination is a tele- 
(Continued on page 68) 
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