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in dull weather. Sprinkle as often as 
needed to keep the soil moist, and 
after a month or so the slips will be¬ 
gin to grow—that is, many of them will. 
Let them remain a week or so longer, 
and then pot off into two inch or three 
inch crocks, giving rich earth .—Farm 
and Home. 
RETIRED FARMERS 
M ost farmers make the mistake of 
retiring from business when they 
feel themselves getting old. The un- 
happiest set of men I have ever met are 
these same retired farmers and especially 
those who unfortunately sold their farms 
and moved to town in order to take it 
easy. They worked and saved for a 
good many years for the purpose of lay¬ 
ing up happiness for old age, but they 
never learned that happiness cannot be 
stored up like grain in a bin. Somehow 
the weevils find their way to the granary 
and work destruction. The only hap¬ 
piness we are entitled to is what w^e 
gather each day as w-e go along and it 
seems to be very closely related to hard 
work. 
The happiest men I ever knew were 
those who worked right up to the last 
day of their lives .—Farm Press. 
BIRDS VS. SPRAYING 
TT looks very much as though the 
time was drawing near when w^e 
shall have to choose between our birds 
and spraying. Each year brings fewer 
birds and many varieties have almost 
disappeared. How seldom do we see 
our little friend the house wren, or yel¬ 
low warblers. Yet ten years ago our 
orchards were filled with songsters. 
Only the other day the writer was talk¬ 
ing to one of the heads of the New York 
State Agricultural Department, who has 
a large farm with many acres of fruit 
trees, and he said the continual use of 
poisonous insecticides in spraying was 
rapidly destroying the birds. Last year, 
he went on to say, he had found nest 
after nest filled with little dead fledg¬ 
lings. Some of these he had sent to a 
friend to examine in order to find out if 
his idea that spraying was killing them 
off was correct. In every case sufficient 
poison was found in their stomachs to 
cause their death. 
The result of this destruction is going 
to be that the more we spray, the more 
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