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Agricultural Department,
'What Strawberries Shall I Plant?
Too Much Shade for Health.
The strawberry is the fruit of the*
people. If one has room to raise no oth-
cr fruit, he tries to find a place for the
strawberry bed, knowing that freshly
picked strawberries, ripened upon the
vines, arc about the greatest luxury thai
poor mortals can enjoy. When asked
ai to varieties 10 or 16 years ago, we
could only answer, “plant the ‘Wilson, ’
for that was then the only one that one?
could set out with the hope of getting
strawberries. The “Wilson” was a safe
variety to plant, as one who had vine*
was very sure to pick berries—to be sure
they required, much sugar to mako them
eatable, but they were strawberries—
and othor varieties of the day gave but
meagre returns. But matters have
changed of late years, and n o have sev
eral varieties, quite as snre to produce
fruit os the Wilson, and fruit of much
better quality. No fruit is more affec
ted by the character of the soil than the
strawberry. Tho Stiff clay soil on the
place of tho lute Mr. Knox, a few years
ago known' as the “Strawberry King,”
gave him results with the “jucunda,”
and othor foreign kinds, that no one
else could equal. The truth is, that
certain varieties nro best for light soils,
and others most suited for heavy soils.
If asked to name tho best one variety,
without regard to soil, the variety from
which one would got fair returns wher
ever planted, wo should say “tfirarlcs
Downing.” This is a fur better fruit
than tho “Wilson,” and apparently
equally reliable. After (in experience of
several years, wo nro- safo in saying, if
wo could have hut one variety for family
use, it would bo “Charlos Downing.”—
For early voriotios, “Downer's Prolific”
for light, and “Nionnor” for heavy soils
nro to bp commended. Among later
varieties thoro are, for light soils, “Seth
Boydon,” “Greon Prolific,” and “Ken
tucky.” For heavy soils, “Triompho
do Gtotid,” and "Jucunda.” Of course
there are other claimants for popularity,
such as “Ool. Ohonoy,” “Monarch of
tho, West,” “Great Amorican,” and
others, which aro worthy of trial, but
wo Imvo given ubovo thoso whioh have
laxm tested for several yoavs in a great
variety of localities. Wo ndviso those
about to plant gtrawborrios, ns wo do
thoso intending to plant vegetables: put
in your main drop of well tested varie
ties, and then try of the new kinds all
you can afford to tost. To novices in
strawborry culturo, wo would say, a
plant can not bear fruit until it has
made one season’s growth. If set this
spring, and well cultivated, u good crop
may be had next spring. If tho plants
are set in tho fall, they give hut a par
tittl crop tho noxt spring, uml a full one
tho year following.' If runners arc
struck in pots in Juno and July, and
set out in August, ns wo havo shown in
former volumes, then a full crop may
bo gathered the Bpring following. For
ordinary garden oultuvo,.tho plants may
be sot a foot apart in rows 18 inches
apart, in highly manured soil—the onr-
lioiytlie bettor.
The busine,r> of planting shade tree:
is not perhaps overdone. Ornamental
trees, the Maples, Elms, Oaks, Tulij
trees, and others, certainly add much to
the beauty of our village streets, uml we
should hardly know how to spare the
Lilacs, the Wistarias, the Honeysuckles,
he Hawthorns, the Wigelias, and
Rhododendrons, and other flowering
diruba, that thrive in the yards, and
.'luster around our windows. There is
no occasion yet, especially in the newer
villages, for the tree-planting societies
to disband. Country roads still sadly
lack ornament and shade. But tho
tree-planters should certainly have their
attention balled to the abuse of shade.
Such an unusually wet season as this in
the East, showers fulling almost every
week, all through the eltrly summer, in
tensifies tho evils of our overshaded
streets. In many of those old towns
which are considered the glory of New
England, the trees have been planted so
near together, and so close to the house,
that sunlight is almost wholly excluded
from tho dwelling, excopfc nt mid-day.
Trees aro not only on all sides of tho
house, but they have been planted no
thickly, that tho branches interlace,
and no, sunlight fulls beneath. Elms
that require 80 to 100 feet space, for
the full development of their branches,
arc planted within 20 feet of each other,
and Maples, that need nearly os much
room, nro allowed but 10 or 12 feet. It
is gloomy and damp under such trees
until mid-day, and the moisture steuls
into the darkened sleeping-rooms of the
house. The carpets and furniture grow
moldy, and tho people who dwell in
these over-shaded houses, grow thin rihd
pale, dyspeptic and consumptive. If
New England boasts of her trociwucd
villugoa, she also mourns ovor the larg
est proportion of consumptives in her
death-list. Thoso villagers want more
sunlight and a dryer atmosphere. The
dwelling should havo the full benefit of
tho sun, and a freo circulation of the
air upon evory side of it. The remedy
for these overcrowded stroots and yards
is the axe. Thin out until every tree
lias room for full development, and a
margin of sunlight beyond. It will
make handsomor trees", and healthier
m. Wo protest against Clio abuse of
shuelo., Connecticut.—
In American Agriculturist.
Cheapness op PiionucrioN.—In ov
cry department of industry tho tendon
«y is, to reduce the cost of production,
by means of more offeetivo methods,
and more Bkillful work. Wo are oven
now soonring many foreign markets for
produce, und for manufactured articlos
of many kinds, morely because wo can
prodneo thorn chonplv. We ureoxpbrt
iug iron, stool, and tools of various
kinds, us well as machinery, from loco
motives and other heavy engines, to
plows and apple-parol's. Wo are send
ing off cutlery, cotton goods, leather,
boots and shoes, clothing, as well us a
vast amount of small articlos of hard
ware, “notions” and rubber goods, with
agricultural and other raw predace.
Generally, agriculture is beaten in*'tho
competition for cheapness of produc
tion, and'the oxport trado does not sat
isfy farmers as to the prices realized.
Wo shall soon, mend this in othor pro
duce, as we havo already done os regards
tho’ production of beef, which' is expor
ted at a satisfactory prefit to the stock
mcu. Thoy havo cheapened their prod
uct by the use of improved stock, and
» similar course of improvement must
be puKsucd in all the departments of ag
riculture, by tho use of t he licsfc meth
ods and the best\tock, seeds, machines
and implements. If by tho use of
those we lessen tho cost of our products,
we add to our profits to the same extent
and if we increase the amount of our
products at tho same time, we can afford
to sell cheaper, and yet make more
profit than wo do now.
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There was a time when a great many
people in this country regarded William
Tocumsch Sherman us n lunatic. We
havonovor givon in our adhesion,to that
theory, but wo are willing to declare that
he is jiow open to tho charge of boing a
fool. Ilis recent speech before the
Alumni Association of Wo3t Point
stamps him at once ns a disturber and a
man unfit to wiold the baton of General.
Alluding to tho possibility of an attempt
being mado to disturb Mr. Hayes’ title,
ho declared that Mr. Ilayoa, although a
mild-mannered gentleman, would be
found to possoss tho norvo to maintain
his right if it was assailod, and that ho
would havo tho support of the army,
It is time for this loose tonguod warrior
to bo informed that tho tax payers of
the country have hired him to kill poo-
plo when they give him ordera. His
threats are ontirely out of plaoe. It is
all well enough for his brother John ..to
talk about war and. revolution, for ho is
probably a criminal and his tail -is in
tho trap. Gen. Sherman’s efforts to
create tho impression that tho Potter
investigation is a declaration of war
should bo sternly deprecated. lie
ought to be locked up in the guard
house until ho ccasos to bo a disturber of
the peace.—BaltmoreGazette.
Stanley Matthews is chiefly censured
by his party for placing himself in a po
sition whore lie can’t conveniently lie
but of it.
A Cincinnati youth guided' by tho
advico of a fortuno toller, sought to
mako a girl love him by moans of eleo
trioity from under her chair. When
tho time came she sprung into tho air
about three foot, and wlion sho came
.down sho landed in her lover’s hair and
took about, two handfuls therefrom, mul
then told him that she hated him. No
match.
Refined homes arc at tlie end of civ
ilization. .All the work of the world—
the railroading, navigating, digging,
manufacturing, inventing, teaching,'
writing, fighting, aro done, first of all,
to secure each family in Hie possession
of its own hearth; and secondly, to sur
round as many hearths as possiblo with
grace, culture and beauty. Tho work
of all races for fivo thousand years is
represented in tho difference between a
wigwam and a lady’s parlor. It has no
letter result to show.
How to Prevent Colds.
If people were blessed with common^
sense and a little wholesome self-denial,
they might often escape severe colds
and fevers by resolute measures adopt
ed in season.
There is probably not a man, woman
or child, who is not as often as once a
year afflicted .with a cold, which ends
jn a cough or catarrh; and thousands
there are who flie ever}’ year of consump
tion, brought on by taking cold. He,
then, who should discover a certain and
effectual remedy for this complaint
would be justly regarded as one of the
greatest benefactors of the age. The
writer docs not profess to have discov
ered snch a remedy, but he wishes to
iittcst the truth of the following certain
and effectual expedient for preventing
a cold. A cold cannot be instantly
cured; but if it can be prevented, it is
of no importance to know how it may
be cured.
A bad cold, like measles or mumps,
or other similar ailments, will run its
course of about' ten days, in spite of
what may be done for it, unless reme
dial means arc employed within forty-
eight hours of its inception. Many a use
ful life may be spared to be increasingly
useful, by cutting a cold short off in
the following safe and simple manner:
On the first day of taking a cold, there
is a very unpleasant sensation of chilli
ness. The moment you observe this,
go to your room and stay there. Keep
it at such a temperature as will entirely
prevont this chilly feeling, even jf it re
quires one hundred degrees of Fahren
heit. In addition to this, put your
ect in water half-leg deep, as hot as
on cah hear it* adding hot water from
time to time, for a quarter of an hour,
so that tho w’ater shall he hotter when
yon take your feet out than when you.
put them in. Then dry them thor
oughly, and put on thick, warm, wool
len Stockings, even if it be summer—
for summer colds are most dangerous—
and for twenty-four hours eat not an
atom of food, but drink as largely ( as
you desire of any kind of warm tea;
and, at the end of that time, the cold
will bo entirely broken, without any
medicino whatever. Efficient a3 the
above means arc, not one in a thousand
attends tq them—led on, as most men
are, by tho hope that a col’d will pass
away of itself. Nevertheless, this arti
cle will pn ;s under the eyq of some who
do not choose to run the double risk of
taking physic and dying too: Tho ex
pedient is a severe one for epicures and
gluttons, but most persons will find it
easier to fast one day than to be sick a
fortnight.- Sometimes fasting for three
or four meals is sufficient.; but the
whole remedy is better than a part.*
Let those who are often afflicted with
colds—ministers, students and con
sumptives generally — remember the
above directions; if faithfully followed,
they will 9b more good than all the
pulmonics, cold-cordials, and otiie^
hurtful nostrums in the world.—Hall's
Journal of Health.
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box, with flowers on her. I wish she’d
come and bathe myjhcnd—it aches so.
Nobody ovor makdS it feel good but
tnamnia. She know how it hurt me,
and sho used to read to mo-out of a lif-
tj.i hook how my head would got ivell
and not ache any more some day. I
wish it was “some day” now. Nobody
likes mo but mamma. That’s cause
I’ve got a sick head. Mamma used to
take mo in her arms and cry. When I
asked her what’s the matter she would
say, “I’m only tired, darling.” I guess
Aunt Agnes made 'her tired, for when
she camo and stayed all day mamma
would take me up in the oveuing on her
lap and cry awful hard. I aiut had
any dinner to-day. Mamma always
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pudding with “D,” for “Danny,” on
top. I like little puddings with “D’s”
on top. I like to sit in my little chair
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I’ve got a pudding with “D,”for “Dan
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