SWEPT BY A
E.
BUM WEOUGHT BY A WEST
INDIAN CYCLONE.
The "Worst Summer Storm That Has
Ker Struck New York Great
Damage Along the Lons Island
and New Jersey Shores Two
Score Lives Reported Ixst.
The West Indian cyclone which swept over
the middle of the Atlantic coast on ita wayto
tiftVWPnchn roast left its marks over
the whole region around New
sween of fully 1000 miles. It
York with a
strewed the
New Jersey coast
than have teen
with more wrecks
recorded in a sin
gle day since the blizzard, juepons
chow that nearly two score of lives were lost,
and manv pleasure, merchant and Ashing
craft foundered or were drivn to destruc
tion on the shores. The greatest violence of
the elements was manifested in a region fifty
mil in diameter, with New York City as a
center, and in this district the fury of the
etorm was almost unexampled.
In New York City the storm did every
kind of damage that a rainstorm can do, ex
cept that it was attended with no fatalities.
Ricns, shutters. chimney3 and fences were
blown down, trers were uprooted, plate slass
windows were wrecked, leaky roofs w.r
discovered and cellars ware flooded. The
parks perhaps displayed die most striking
scenes of wreck when morning came. The
paths were almost impassable with the
branches of trees, and those trees that wen
blown down. A pathetic feature of the ruin
was the larire number of sparrows that
wre kille l. Three hundred dead ones wre
found in City 1I1) Park alone, while in Cen
tral Park they must have been numbered by
the thousands. Among the hundreds of
tres blown lown in the city the old oak
which rormed a landmark in West Ninth
street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, is
rrowArfhv it bein'' blown across the
street, effectually blocking it. Along
"WW, Vesv, Barclay and Washington
streets sorr.A of the greatest damage was
done, mainly by the flooding of basements
and cellars. Everett's restaurant on Vesey
street, and Smith & McNeil's on Wash
ington awl Greenwich streets were
flooded and much damage done. In
the North New York parks trees and
shrubbery wre blown down, and along the
streets next morning were seen shutters
blown from their fastenings. At Oak Point
and Port Morris much damage was done
to yachts. Presidents say it was the
worst storm in years in thai section.
On Washington Heights huge trees were
uproote.i. broken and twisted, gardens were
utterly ruined and fences were torn apart
and strewn along the roads. Several streets
were blockaded by fallen trees, and the ax
men were buy for several hours.
The storm raged over Brooklyn with de
structive furv, and next morning there were
marks of its "work all over the city. House.-
were demolished in some cases, unroofed
in others ; trees were blown down, elect rie
poles and wires broken arul twiste;!,
and business signs knocked into splinters.
Nearlv GOO of the finest shade trees were up
rooted. One struck a Fifth avenue elevated
train, but fortunately did no damage to it. A
strange feature about the destruction of the
trees is that the largrst suffered. They went
down before the merciless storm. leaving great
gaps where they stood, ripping up sidewalks
and pavements and crushing fences, rails,
stoops and niazz.is. There were cases where
the fallen trees barred ingress to or exit from
the houses in front of which they stood. The
trees and plants in Pro3peet Park suffered
greatly. One hundred shale trees were
uprooted and thrown ; others were stripped
of their branches. Hardly one escaped. The
beautiful flowers were wholly or partial ly
destroved. The cemeteries were not spared.
Trees were thrown, plants and shrubbery up
rooted, headstones leveled with the earth
ami railings thrown down
Coney Island lay fairly in the cyclone's
path, and probably fared the worst of any
section, so far as damage to property was
concerned. No such storm had visited the
island in years, and perhaps not within
its history as a seaside resort. From
Norton's rolnt. on the westerly end,
to Point Breeze, on the extreme east,
the shore was left a continuous picture of
disaster and wreckage. At Brighton Beach
Hotel the lawn and walk were completely
destroyed. The tide reached a remarkable
height, sweeping np to the electrie raihvay
tracks on Sea Breeze avenue. The piles
supporting the Brighton Beach Elevated
Railway were washed away, and a train
was removed from the station just in time
to save ir. The station itself is a wreck
and the road crippled. The guests in the
hotel were roused at 4.30. as the spray was
then dashing over the piazza, and it w is
feared the struct ure would be surrounded. At
West Brighton the most noticeable damage
was done. Palmer's mammoth bathing pavil
ion, said to be the largest in the world, was
wrecked, as were also dozens of smaller
bath houses, restaurants, booths and places
of amusement. At Manhattan Beach the
powerful bulkheads protected the hotel to a
irrat extent, an d less damage was caused,
but the boardwalks wore broken and scat
tered over the lawn. The losses on Coney
Island are estimated all the way from 50,
000 to 8200.000.
Considerable damage was done on Long
HDHBUUI
Island. The wind blew with the force of a i
hurricane, tearingoff branches of trees and in ; Illinois day at the World's Fair was cele
some ea;es tearing trees up from the roots. ! brated by an enormous crowd. The men at
Travel on the various branches of the Long j the gates had more than they could do to
Tsland Railroad was greatly inconvenienced, j keep the thousands of applicants for admis
nr,,i nrariv nil the t mins were more or less de- i sion from congesting outside the three hun-
laved. Some
Manv busiues
of the trains were not started, i
men on the south side of th
island gave up all idea of coming to town, i
but many who had concluded to take ; j
holiday changed their minds when the j
weather cleared later in the morning. The i
farmers who have for two months been ,
wishing and praying for rain are in a se-
rious state of mind. The wind that came;
along with the water was more than they j
bargained for. In some cornfields there is j
scarcely a stalk standing, and on some of the J
truck farms patches of vegetables are com
pletely washed out. The effects of the storm
at the various yacht club anchorages along
the Sound were tremendous. The exces
sively heavy winds on shore drove the small
boats together and in many instances great
damage was done among the frail pleasure
craft by collision. At Larchmont Har
bor a "big sehooner went ashore
early in the morning during the height of
the storm on the rocks off Shepherd's Point.
Her crew of seven men remained on her at
work at the pumps, but with the falling of
the tide she was left high and dry, and will
inevitably go to pieces. All along the Sound
shore, from Indian Harbor at Greenwich to
Tort Morris, the devastation of the
storm was apparent in the de
stroyed piers, the flooded ' meadow
lands and the shore houses, whose
first floors were in most instances on a level
with the water. The gale struGk Flushing j
broadside, and over 100 of the rarest and '
most beautiful specimens of trees, which J
and thrown across the street, blocking travel,
in the morning the streets were covered with
oliage and branches of trees.
The storm swept Connecticut on shore and
inland with tre-nendon fury. At B-a-k
Roefc. thrilling scenes were enacted. T.ie .irst
boat to bo hurried upon the shore wes the
Hazel, a yacht own-d by J. C. Wolcott. ot
Jersey City. It sank beneath the waves,
and the partr on board were rescued by a
life line. "The rescuers then tunii
their attention to the yaeht
She Is a pilot boat about thirt feet
long and is owned by Roland Pat tit, of ew
York. The cable which held the boat snapped
about seven o'clock in the ornm T hen
the boat was at the mercy of tie sea. It
rolled and tossed and every momtnt seemed
to be its last It was fe
waves against the pier. The yacnrie
JSnTd. but the pier gave way and
the life line again did good service. Tae
crisis oame when the big schooner yacht
5Sfa dragged her anchor. Suddenly it was
heaved high on the crest of a wave and then
landed upon the disabled Stella. At bavin
Rock nearly all the bath houses were
washed away and many dancing pa
vilions damaged seriously. At fcjort
Beach the launch Ella, owned by Ella
ivv, i,- tv-;i- v rvnetess. was sunt in
H urcic nii(,vi( r " ' ,.
a onlHsiinn an A u number oi small
vachts
destroyed
Camp Morris, where the Connecticut Na
tional Guard was at rendezvous at iantie.
was
left in ruins.
Not one leui.
tho ITJb remained
standing. J-ns
severe gale did immense damage in
the interior of the State. Many fine shade
trees were blown down and several partly
n.v,,a K,,ii,iin,! wprw unroofed and uemol-
1 ished. The roof of the Mermen sm v
factory at 3Ieriden was blown off.
' T n w-r, rti- J MAT OT
The storm ien on -ew v..---
gion with terrific force and disastrous effect.
Shipping destroyed, crops ruined, communi
cation interrupted, houses and hotels un
roofed, trees uprooted, fowl killed and roads
washed out are some of the costly results. In
Jersey City the streets were littered with hun
dreds of shade trees. The roofs were torn like
paper and shingles were carried away, leav
ing apertures through which the rain poured.
Those living in the meadow section found
their homes in a lake. In Hoboken the
sewers of the meadow district were choked
and the streets were under water. Few tele
graph poles along the Vrjt Shore traces
resisted the furiou3 gale. In Rail
way cellars were flooded and roots
injured. Two factories were obliged to
shut down temporarily in order to
repair damages. A. T. Crane, who has
boats for hire lost fifty of them. In Balmar
the entire roof of the big Columbia Hotel was
carried away. The heavy beams and joists
crashed down through the floors below, fright
ening the 350 guests who were in their beds ; a
stampede was made for the parlor on the
ground floor. The bathing houses and pavilion
were also blown down. The loss to the hotel
will exceed $5000. In Point Pleasant several
cottages were unroofed. The visitors to
Long Branch will long remember the storm.
At West End the gale lifted part of the roof
from the big West End Hotel. The bath
ing houses were strewn aiong the beach
and the uavilion badly wrenched. A big
pil.-i of debris on the beach is all
that is left of the Howland Hotel bathing
houses. The Scarboro Hotel bathing house
are all gone also. The loss is a heavy one.
J. C. Van Cleaf, of the United States Hotel,
loses all of his bathing houses and their
contents. At the Ocean Hotel bathing
grounds, Pierson V Jules have a pile
of kindlinr wood, all that is left of
a long row oi new bathing houses. Fivehun
dred dollars worth ot new oatnmg
went with the houses. Of the big iron
just north of the bathing grounds
fmir-flftns were swept away. Of
suits
pier
luliy
the
few
Brighton Hotel bath
houses a
doors, some, broken joists
nd part of
a bathing suit is all that is left. Just
north of the Brighton Hotel the roadway
was not protected by bulkheads and the sea
carried away fully ten feet of the highway.
There are barely eight feet left. A fleet of
about twenty-five graceful boats were swing
ing at their moorings off the iong railroad
pier at Atlantic Highlands at sundown : at
daybreak onlv four remained. Th3
rest lay "wrecked and battered
against the spiles or along the shore.
Among the farmers and fruit growers in the
vicinity of Elizabeth the storm has caused
great damages. The peach crop has
suffered badly. The fruit crop, which
was about to bo gathered, was blown
from the trees and scattered on the
muddy ground. Reports from all inland
New Jersey towns say the storm did much
damage to buildings, farms and stock. All
telegraphic or telephonic connection with
many inland towns was cut off for the first
time since the memorable blizzard of March,
188S.
The greatest havoc was wrought at sea.
From all along the coast came reports of
disaster and loss of life. This is the record
Tug Panther, of Philadelphia, with barge
Lac-kins Valley ; tug went down off South
ampton, Long Island, barge went ashore ;
sixteen men on tug, four on barge : seventeen
were lost. Fishing smack Empire State
ashore at Squan Beach, N. J. ; crew of
ten men. all of New London, lost ;
fishing schooner Mary P. Kelly ashore at As
bury Park, Captain Chris Brattan and throe
men drowned ; steamer of Merritt Wrecking
Company ashore near Narragansett Pier,
Diver William Coolan, of Staten Island,
drowned : Government tug General Hum
phrey sunk off Atlantic Highlands, crew not
heard from.
ILLINOIS DAY AT THE FAIR.
Many Thousands of Visitors A Kc
markablc Procession.
dred turnstiles. The excursion boats, the
steam cars, the elevated road and the surface
cars were packed with people from 8 o'clock
until noon. Then there was a lull in the
stream, but it lasted only a short time when
it was renewed, thousands of people leaving
their vork in Chicago to come out and see
the night's display.
The day's entertainment began with a pa
rade of th Illinois National Guard. 5000
strong. The militia marched into the Mid
way Piaisance from the west entrance, and
passed down the thoroughfare in company
front order to the main Fair grounds, and as
they moved by the natives of each village in
the Piaisance fell in behind. First came the
Bedouins riding camels and Arabian horses.
They were allowed nearly a thousand feet of
space, and as the parade moved along, those
mounted on horses rode back and forth dis
playing feats of horsemanship. After the
Bedouins came the Laplanders and the
natives of Dahomey. Then came the Chinese
with a dragon, sixty feet long, made of rice
paper, a band ot Sioux Indians, the South
Sea islanders, the Hawaiians, Persians,
Egyptians, Turks, Moors. Swiss horn
blowers, the natives of Jahore, the
Algerians and the inhabitants of the
Irish and German villages. In
the main grounds they were joined
by the Italian marines. the British
soldiers, and the West Point Cadets. The
parade was led by Governor Altgeld and his
staff until it reached the Illinois Building,
where they dropped out, and the Governor
reviewed the procession from the front
portico of the building. At the conclusion of
the parade Governor Altgeld and his staff
held a reception in the Illinois State Building.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Tht. Brooklyn have not been shut out tlJ
fLoww but surely the pitchers are g-ttkv?
n top again.
Kesxedt has succeeded Steia 3 Brook
lyn's winning pitcher.
A baseball player in Independence, Kan.,
fan throw a ball 290 feet.
Hatfield has replaced Schoch ct thirl
tase on the Brooklyn team.
Thebe is no catcher in the busfness who Is
sorer on hig fouls than Gunson, of Cleve
land. So pitcher seems to have suffered so much
from the new pitching rules as Hutchinson,
of Chicago.
-McGabb, of Cleveland, is playing third
base better than any man in the League ex
cept Nash, of Boston.
Baltimore has never had a short stop in
many years that could play the position with
in a mile of McGraw.
Ik all Pittsburg's history it has never been
represented by so strong an organization as
this year's League team
Ciscinnati has wearied of the player-manager
idea and Comiskey is now on the bench.
Washington is thinking the same way.
Delehaxty, of thePhiladeiphias, leads the
League in home runs, having made sixteen.
Tiernan, of the Giants, is a ciof.e secono.
Kennedy, of Brooklyn, by holding the
hard-hitting New Yorks down to one hit. ac
complished one of the rarest pitching feats
of the season.
The feat of Donovan, of Pittsburg, in play
ing forty-nine successive games without an
error will probably be the outfield fielding
record of the year.
Mcllane, o Baltimore, tried to bunt and
the ball glanced from the bat and struck him
a severe blow on the nose. It is strange more
players are not injured in the same play.
Thinking ball players in other teams say
that tbey cannot understand why the New
Yorks are not nearer the front. They say
that the Giants are the fastest team in the
League.
Gebman, of the New Yorks, has what is
known as a "moist hand." It perspires
freely. That is why he nearly always has a
lot of sawdust near the "box." into which he
dips every time he gets ready to pitch.
The Louisvilles have not done so badly
this season when their work is compared
with that of other clubs. They have lost but
ten games more than the New Yorks and but
a few more than the Baltimores and the St.
Louis.
This has been an unusually destructive
year to old time pitchers or rather to the
stars of two or three years ago. Among the
notable failures are numbered the names of
Keefe, Crane, King. Clarkson, Lovett, Had
dock, Staley and Mullane.
The complete understanding that exists
among the members of the Boston team is
simply superb. The men know each other
thoroughly, each has his particular work to
do and there is no friction. Therein lies the
secret of the success of the team.
Captain Wabd, of New York, is the king of
base stealers with forty-four. Then come T.
Brown, Louisville, forty ; Hamilton, Phila
delphia, thirty-nine ; McCarthy, Boston ;
Ewing, Cleveland, and Dowd, St. Louis,
thirty-six ; Burke, New York, and Radford,
Washington, thirty-five.
The Cleveland team contains mora men
than any other team who are very fast in get
ting to first base. Childs. Burkett, McKean,
Ewing and McAleer are hard men to retire
at first on nny kind of a slow hit. The first
three have the advantage over the last two
because they are left-handed batters.
The success of the Baltimore Club with
young players has attracted the attention of
managers all over the country. Manager
Hanlon began unloading his veterans a year
ago, and by judicious selections replaced
them with vigorous, ambitious youngsters
who have their greatest fame before them.
The playing of that team has attracted atten
tion and admiration everywhere they went,
whether they von or lost.
BECOBD OF
Clubs. Won. Lost,
Boston 72 31
Pittsburg.. 61 43
Philadei. . .60 43
Cleveland. 55 46
New York.53 49
Brooklyn.. 52 51
THE LEAGUE CLUBS.
Per Per
, et. Clubs. Won. Ist. ct.
. 699 Cincinnati . 49 53 . 480
.587 Baltimore.. 48 56 .462
.583 St. Louis. .47 57 .452
. u45 Chicago ... 42 61 .408
.520 Louisville. 40 59 .40i
.505 Wash'ng'n.37 67 .356
FLED BEF0KE FLAMES.
Great Panic in South Chicago and a
Large Area Burned.
For six hours fire raged in that part of
Chicago known as South Chicago, practically
a city of itself, having 50,000 inhabitants,
and situated ok Lake Michigan, about three
miles below the World's Fair grounds. It
burned nearly 250 houses, most of them frame
dwellings. At least 1000 persons were made
homeless, and the loss was about $1,000,000.
Nearly a dozen blocks were burned over.
The burned district is north of the business
centre of South Chicago, and was almost
exclusively given up to residences. Two
lives were lost, and several persons were
severely injured.
The fire began about 5 o'clock in the af
ternoon in a three -story brick building at
the corner of Ninety-first street and Super
ior avenue, owned by William Gilles, and
occupied bv him as a residence.
The flames spread rapidly under a gale of
wind from the west and ate their way over
block after block of the small frame resi
dences until they reached the lake. Within
the first two hours of the fire it had con
sumed at least thirty buildings and five
blocks. The 50.000 residents of the town
were stricken with a panic like mat wmcn
characterized the conflagration of 1871.
As the pine structures in which lived the
workingmen emploved in the large steel
mills of the Illinois Steel Company and in
which the smaller merchants of the place
made their homes were levelled by the flames,
those whose homes had not yet fallen fled
with their goods and household utensils to
the other portions of the city. Streets were
blocked with wagons containing the effects
of the fleeing residents, and men and women,
appalled by the calamity, fled in every di
rection. FASTED UNTIL HE DIED.
A Sailor Lives Seventy-six Days
Without Food.
Antonio Bachetich, an Austrian sailor,
who had refused to take food for seventy-six
days, died a few days sinca in a sailors'
board."ng-house in Philadelphia, soon after
calling for food and sipping a little beef tea.
On June 11th, because no knife and fork and
spoon were put at his placo at table, he
vowed in anger not to eat another morsel of
food, and no one could prevail upon him to
change his mind. He retused to have a phy
sician or go to a hospital.
AN EGG -LAYING TEST.
In an egg-laying test at the Louisi
ana Station, involving bens of ten com
mon breeds and continued 2-10 days,
brown leghorns made the best record,
the hens of this breed laying an aver
age of seventy two eggs. Light brahmas
camo next with an average of tifty
eight, then langshans with forty -nine,
buff cochins and Plymouth rocks with
forty-six each, and minorcas with forty
five. The American breeds averaged
thirty-three eggs a hen, Aesatic forty
five, and European forty-four. New
York World.
nOW GOOD COWS AKF. FITXTID.
Many good cows are practically
ruined by being kept apart from the
herd. Their isolation is due usually
to a whim to make a pet of an individ
ual cow. Women and children are
mainly responsible for this form of
foolishness which should never Le in
dulged by the careful dairyman. Cat
tle are in their way exceedingly social
creatures, and absence from their as
sociates affect them unfavorably. They
are nervous and uneasy when separ
ated from them, and in the case of
cows lose flesh and fall off in milk.
Sometimes it causes them to abort,
but this rarely happens, enough mis
chief being accomplished without.
Foolish men sometimes tie a cow up
to punish her, with the result that the
fool is punished in the lessened yield
caused by the separation from the
herd. American Dairyman.
EXHAUSTED LAND.
We are suffering here in New Eng
land from land exhaustion. That is
one of the questions that confronts
New England, confronts Massachu
setts. If these lands were highly pro
ductive, they would bo occupied and
used. One of the prime reasons for
the abandonment of these lands is be
cause they no longer have plant food.
Now, how have they become ex
hausted? I think largely by raising
the grains. That is what the New Eng
land farmer primarily did. He raised
corn and oats, wheat and barley, and
sold them, and thus impoverished
these lands.
The farms of New England have
been impoverished because we have
sold more from the land than we have
restored to it. The question then for
the farmer is, How shall I restore, how
shall I build ud mv farm? How shall
-L j
I wisely do it? I believe the wise way !
to do it is to buy grain. I think it is
the cheapest way to do it, because
when you raise a crop of grain on your
land you diminish the fertility of that
land.
When vou raise a crop of anything
except the leguminous plants, except
the pea and the clover and the bean,
and crops of that nature, and draw it
off the land, you have taken something
out of mother earth. When you buy
grain you buy something which has a
large manurial value. When a man
buys a ton of bran for $20 I say it is a
good investment. Why? Because he
buys in that $20 worth of nutrition
$12 worth of manurial value. The
man who buys a ton of cottonseed
meal for $28 buys $24 worth of manur
ial value. New England Farmer.
PICKING GEESE.
In answer to the query, "How often
in one season ought geese to be
picked ?" a farmer with fourteen years'
experience answers, in the Philadel
phia Farm Journal, that it depends en
tirely on the feed and run and ex
plains the whole situation as follows :
"They feather out more quickly when
they are permitted to run on green
pasture and have abundance of good
water to drink. Every ten weeks
6hould find them, under such treat
ment, with a good coat of feathers. Do
not pick until laying is over. Geese
cannot be artificially moulting and
producing eggs at the same time.
Never pick them in cold weather.
When ready to pick, which the experi
enced geese-raiser can tell by the color
of the plumage (if ready there will be
no yellowish tinge on the white
feathers, but to be 6ure pick a few
from the breast of the goose), the
feathers corne easily and are dry at the
quill end. If not ripe, they arc soft
and bloody. And this is one of the
reasons why store-bought feathers
sometimes have such a disagreeable
odor. The best guide, experience, tells
us to take only a small pinch of
feathers in the fingers at a time, and
with a quick downward jerk, from tail
to neck, displace the first coat of
feathers with only a very little of the
second coat, the down. Do net pick
the bolsters, those Largo feathers
under the wings, if you do, the poor
creatures' wings will droop continu
ally. When the goose diss, we can
strip these off for filling pillows for
home use. But never take them from
the geese while living."
miUNG COR".
Hilling corn i not as common as it
once was, though in some sections it is
still followed to quite an extent. Ex
cept in very wet land it is worse than
useless labor. In wet fields it answers
the purpose keeping part of the roota
of the plant out of water. I his w
desirable thing to accomplish, but to
attempt it br building up hills for th
corn is to adopt a temporary and a
verv iraicriect substitute fur draining.
Sometimes, however, this must be done
or the planting of the field be deferred
till another teaon. On reasonably dry
land the case is different. Here it is
important to get the roots of the corn
under ground rather than above its
level.
In this situation the two main pur
poses of the roots, to secure find and
to keep the plant in an upright posi
tion, can be best promoted. If the
soil be mellow and the surface nearly
level, the roots' will pass through it in
all directions and extend to quite a
distance from the plants. Hut if high
hills are made the tdalks will throw out
a large number of roots which can go
only a little distance, which are ex
posed to injury in time of drought,
which can obtain but little food and
which car do but little to hold up the
plants. A moderate number of long
roots will do a great deal more to keep
the corn from blowing down than will
a much larger number of t-hort ones,
which have neither tinio to gain
strength nor room in which to become
fully developed.
The plants will grow far more rapidly
if they are allowed to depend upon the
natural development of their roots than
they will if by the formation of hills
the growth of a large number of short
and weak roots is stimulated. The
writer does not recall au instance in
which he ever injured a field of corn
by level cultivation. He does remem
ber several instances in which he be
lieves that by hilling corn he wasted a
good deal of work and materially re
duced the vield of the crop. New
England Homestead.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTK3.
Lettuce may be sown at any time.
The soil cannot be made too rich for
tomatoes.
Feas and corn ground together aro
good food for swine.
Coal ashes make good material to
mulch the quince trees.
Horticulture and entomology will
go hand in hand in the future.
Clover is an excellent feed for hogs,
as it supplies the needed nitrogen.
Timber for posts should be seasoned,
charred and immersed in hot coal tar.
Get in late cabbage or celery where
you have taken off peas or other crops.
Keeping the surface of the soil fino
and mellow will aid to retain moisture.
It is well to stir a bit of oatmeal into
the drinking water, especially if you
use ice.
An old sow who has proved a good
breeder should always be given the
preference.
The boxing and freight on poor fruit
is as much as on good. The selling
price is less.
Coal ashes that are reasonably full
of coarse cinder make a good mulch
for strawberries.
A twig that can be cut with a knife
now may require a pruning saw if al
lowed to grow another year.
When you "rest a bit" in the field
remember the team will enjoy it too if
allowed to stand in the shade.
If you will not spray your trees your
self, why not hire somebody to do it
who knows how? It will pay you.
Oil meal or linseed cake is made by
English stock breeders tho basis for
thoroughly good prepared stock food.
Mulch trees and bushes that were
set this spring. The dry, hot weather
we may expect now is trying to new
set fruit.
A good way to kill out briers at this
time is to spread over them a thin
layer of dry straw and then burn.
Wheat straw is best.
On account of the risk of keexing it
will be found best to market onions as
soon as they are thoroughly ripe if a
good price can be obtained.
In nearly all cases pears will have a
better flavor if they are picked as soon
as matured and are then ripened in
shallow drawers or on shelves.
In yacking fruit uniformity in size
should be observed as well as possible,
putting in only good, fair-sizel mer
chantable fruit as number one.
A tree is strong and hardy when it
becomes old and its roots are thor
oughly established. While it is young
it needs and must have attention or it
will die. The better the htart to grow
when yonng the better the tree.
A good method of destroying cockle
burs where fields are thoroughly in
fested with them is to seed to erras3 or
' clover and use it for meadow for a few
1 years. When it is plowed again and
I crops such as corn, potatoes, etc., aro
planted go over it with a hoe in lato
' summer and autumn and cut them out.
I A foothold once gained, heroic treat-
incut is required.
: Look out now for the warts on the
I plum trees and cut them off with a
; knife and paint the wound with kero
sene oil mixed with any kind of paint
j that may be at hand. If left they be
j come the black knot, and often destroy
the trees unless 'prevented in season n$
! above de3criled. Follow it up every
j fortnight through the summer, and
j grub up all the wild cherries in th
neighborhood.