THE YELLOW SHEETS 
ample for a family of three. Ruth, our 
milk goat, is due to freshen again in 
September, but still giving right at 
three quarts a day. 
But I am in deep live stock trouble. 
Cuddles and Mildred are our regular 
cats. Then a beautiful long-haired cat 
moved in, chased our two vut and then 
had four kittens. That made seven. 
Then Mildred had four. Eleven cats are 
just too many. Am hoping Ralph will 
bring a pistol back with him this fall. 
I used to be right handy with one, and 
a feline massacre seems in order. 
Cannot fill any more orders for 
Lady Ferns nor Bracken until next 
spring. [he roots are now so large and 
brittle that they break badly in the 
digging, and recovery is doubtful. I do 
not like to sell plants of which I am- 
not sure. They might possibly live, but 
that is the best I can say. 
At the George Ralph home in Tex- 
arkana is a row of Day Lilies that much 
interested me. Mrs. Ralph had planted, 
some years ago, a packet of seed of 
mixed varieties. All now in bloom this 
year. One had bloom stalks about four 
feet tall, large, pale yellow blooms, 
with edges attractively crinkled. Can 
you identify it? Neither she nor | 
could. 
My friend, Mrs. Robert Price, of 
Moyland, Pa., sent me a recent copy 
of Horticulture, which contained an 
article on Pokeweed, which surprised 
me by its adherence to facts. So many 
published articles about this useful 
plant are simply hooey. I have never 
heard of any one eating the roots, so 
cannot say if they are poisonous, but 
the early stalks are a fine substitute 
for asparagus; the leaves and tender 
tips are fine boiling greens all summer; 
chickens eat the ripe berries with great 
relish; the “‘pot likker’’ is not poison- 
ous; and the berries are useful for ink 
and dyes. 
The growth is too coarse for use ex- 
cept in backgrounds; but it is invalu- 
able in back yard poultry runs. Pro- 
tect the young plants at first with flat 
rocks or bricks, to prevent the chickens 
from scratching them up. After the first 
year, the worst the chickens can do is 
only cultivation. Height varies accord- 
ing to richness of the ground, and the 
coloring is much like Castor Beans. 
Miss Lugilla Denson, who raises 
bulbs for the wholesale trade, plants 
her deep, stem-rocting Lilies in her 
chicken yard. Says the location is good 
for both. 
It is unfortunate for the suburbanite 
that the majority of hatcheries cater 
only to the farm trade. A farm breed 
of chickens is as definitely unsuited 
to back yard conditions as a draft 
horse is for a child's pony. But the back 
yard breeds, those that expect to stay 
ai home, expect you to provide the 
fod without much scratching on their 
part, will grow into fine table quality 
1 eat and shell out the eggs on four 
square feet of house space and ten 
square feet of yard per bird, can be 
located only with difficulty. Seems to 
me that here is a fine opening for a 
paying business. Remember that Kel- 
lerstrauss proved in court that during 
one twelve months, he had sold two 
thousand dollars worth of eggs, from 
a forty by forty foot yard. Of course 
that included eggs from the great 
Peggy and her daughers, but it does 
show that here is a fine opening for an 
old or partly disabled person. 
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