HOUSE AND GARDEN 
200 
March, 1914 
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A “BULL-DOG” 
Adjuster of this same breed of ours is illustrated on 
page I 5 of the January Home and Garden in an article 
on casements. It shows how handily the Bulldog 
is operated from inside the screen. It’s a Necessity. 
All About it in Our New Free Booklet. 
The Casement Hardware Co. 
9 South Clinton Street - Chicago 
Ady Orchard 
(Continued from page 169) 
courage to migrate to new lands; fewer 
city dwellers dare to change their envi¬ 
ronment. The pioneer spirit is rare. We 
were living in a listless community, but 
we were content to be listless ourselves. 
To be pioneers in a new country is far 
easier than to be pioneers in a long- 
settled place within reach of one’s old 
life. In the one. everything is in har¬ 
mony. — rough log shacks, primitive cloth¬ 
ing fit the surroundings, but when one is 
liable to be visited by old-time city 
friends much moral courage is required 
to receive them in the changed conditions. 
We have to prove both to them and to 
ourselves that the change is justified and 
we have found something better. 
The warp and woof of our country life 
is the orchard. It provides our income; 
it lifts us to the heights or casts us into 
the abyss as it succeeds or fails, and by 
its growth we measure our success in 
our chosen work. 
The beginning of the year was dismal. 
I was away through the winter, out of 
reach of mail and almost of thought of 
the orchard. My old foreman was left 
in charge with orders to prune the trees 
and do other work necessary to the sea¬ 
son. When Mrs. John and I arrived in 
the early spring we found that the “other 
work" had taken precedence. Not a tree 
had been touched. Even the wood-pile, 
which Mrs. John insists is the test of 
thrift on a farm, was pitifully small, 
although the orders had been for the 
shed to be filled. Everywhere we found 
things undone or half done. There was 
a grand hustle to get through the multi¬ 
tude of jobs which awaited us. We 
haven't yet caught up on that setback. 
This was to have been our year of a 
big crop. Towards that I had worked 
and planned and hoped and, — asked Mrs. 
John to come to the hill-top. In early 
May a week of summer weather brought 
out the blossoms, for the thermometer 
ran high into the nineties. The orchard 
was a bower of bloom; my spirits were 
high. But there followed a week of 
hard freezes. Every night ice formed. 
Blossoms shriveled; tiny apples dropped, 
dropped, dropped! There was a May 
drop, a June drop and a July drop. By 
the middle of July I saw only 100 bar¬ 
rels of fruit on trees that should have 
been sagging under the weight of 10 or 
15 times that number. 
I had prepared my orchard for a wet 
season or a dry one. My trees were 
opened out so that the fruit might re¬ 
ceive every ray of sunshine that Old Sol 
was willing to bestow, and the ground be¬ 
neath them was plowed and cultivated, 
that every drop of moisture might be 
conserved. I thought I had things cop¬ 
per fastened. But the late frost knocked 
out the crop. Temporarily discouraged, T 
left the orchard to take up six weeks of 
my old city work. 
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