INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRFISS A STARTING PEACH* ORCHARD HUNTING 'EM BOTH Farm School Letter of Careful Study of Correct Methods Pruning and Setting Trees Necessary for Success. Sarsaparilla (By JERSEY MAURICE A. BLAKE, NEW Interesting Information on Minnesota Agriculture EXPERIMENT STATION.) If the trees are dry when received Has made itself welcome in by Our Special Correspondent. from the nursery they should at once the homes of the people the be placed in water until the bark on world over, by its wonderful the trunk and branches regain its full HORTICULTURAL NOTES. bright appearance. they will bind themselves. When the cures of all blood diseases and Cistern On the Farm. A Two to two and one-half feet above A cistern on the farm can be easily next course is started, break joints the run-down conditions. Do not fail to guard the young trees the bud is about the proper height and cheaply constructed. Most of the same as in any other brick work. against rabbits. or to "cut back" peach trees for planting. work can be done by the farmer himself, Keep the inside as smooth as pcss Get it today in usual liquid form Sow seeds of aster, salvie and cosmos chocolated tablets called Sarsatabs. while the materials necessary are Good trees may be formed when sible. Plaster the arch inside and in th8 window box. of an inexpensive character, consisting cut back to 18 inches, but anything outside with cement mortar. Don't for Make the Liver A bed of nasturtiums will supply chiefly of a few barrels of Portland moie than that not to be recom- get to put in an intake pipe "near the is blossoms until frost comes. cement and few bricks. Mr. C. E. Texas Bear (to senator on a walfc a top of the arch. An old pump cylindei Do its Duty The more we till a young orchard Brown, of Elk River, tells the Farmers' makes a good one, but a piece of ting trip in the mountains)—Hully gee! four the deeper the roots go down. Institutes how successfully he Is the president after you, too? inch drain tile makes a better one an? Vine crops should not be disturbed constructed one in sandy soil. He a will not rust. A staging may be built Nine times in ten when the liver ia right &» after the vines commence to run. stomach and bowels are rigki. first dug the cistern full size and depth inside the cistern to work on while STATU OP OHIO Crrr OP TOLEDO, I LUCAS COUNTY. CARTER'S LITTLE Portulaca, petunias, nasturtiums desired, but gave the sides more slant building the arch. When all is done FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he Is seniof LIVER PILLS and California poppy revel in the hottest than he would have done in a clay & Co.. we have a cistern that will not hole partner of the firm ot F. J. CHENEY doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State gently but firmly com* sunshine. soil. This to prevent caving. He water until it is coated with a wash •foresaid, and that said firm will pay the sum ot CARTERS pelt lazy liver to ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS tor each and every »ays the walls were made by plastering made quite thick of pure Portland ce Sometimes wje have added red pepper ease of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use o! do its duty. against the sides of the dirt with or crude carbolic acid or any offensive ment—just thin enough to spread easily. BALL'S CATARRH CURE. Cute* COD' ITTLE FRANK J. CHENEY. a good, rich cement mortar. Two substance. With a whitewash brush give the atipation, Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence this 6th day ot December, A. D.. 1886. coats were used. The right coat consisted inside of the cistern a good coat The use of a slight amount of flour Indigestion, PILLS. ot A. W. GLEASON. of one part cement and three this cement. The cistern is then complete in the combination makes it more adhesive SEAL NOTARY PUBLIC. Sick parts screened, sharp sand. The second and will hold water. and less liable to wash off. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally and acta Headache, and Distress after coat was made of one part cement Wetting the walls thoroughly anc directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the If a man does not know how to -system. Send for testimonials, free. Soull Pill, Small DOM, Small Price and two parts sand. The first coat then going over them while wet with prune a tree, he can with safety at F. J. CHENEY fc CO., Toledo, O GENUINE muit bear signature: Sold by all Druggists, 75c. was allowed to "set" a little while before a whitewash brush and dry Portland least cut out all the suckers and keep Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation. the second one was put on, but cement is recommended also as a reliable the ground free from weeds and under-brush. both were applied in one day. Do Remedies Too Costly. way of making the walls water Get out the old-fashioned household ttot trowel the first coat just take tight. If an orchard is on the decline, it is ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE remedy book and scratch out two what the trowel will hold and make a Prof. Robertson, of the Crookston an indication that the food supply remedies, one advising raw beefsteak straight stroke side ways (not up and Experiment station, who recently died, in the soil is being exhausted. Fertilizers spread on a bruise and the other advising Shalte Into Yonr Shoe». down), because the end of the trowel told the Farmers' Institute of a method should be applied and thorough Peaches. Furrowing Out for bacon for a felon. We can't Allen's Foot=Ease, the antiseptic will dig into the sides of the cistern. of making cisterns in a clay soil cultivation given. powder for the feet. It cures waste beefsteak and bacon on bruises Leave no place uncovered in either that proved eminently satisfactory. mended. If the trees are well branched painful, swollen, smarting, nervons feet, The best way to clean up an orchard and instantly takes the sting ont of and felons these days.—Atchison coat. The second coat can be smoothed An egg-shaped hole was dug in the and of medium to large grades the corns and bnnions. It's tike greatest after the fruit Jas been picked is to •Globe. comtort discovery of the a lttle more than the first one, but clay, narrowing the hole to the proper side branches should be cut back to age. Allen's Foot=Ease makes tightfitting turn in the sheep. They will dispose a or new shoes feel easy. It is it cannot be made smooth enough with size at the top, and plastering onto the about three-inch stubs, rather than of every wind-fall or apple that has certain cure for ingrowing nails, sweating, important io Mothers ft trowel. While the mortar is still callous and tired, achingfeet. fjarth with cement mortar, the same cutting the trees to a whip, as the Examine carefully every bottle of been overlooked by the pickers. We have over 30,OOOtestimoniala. TIt IT soft take a whitewash brush, wet it TO-DAY. CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for as outlined for work on sandy walls. buds on the well developed side Sold everywhere, 25c, It is not too late to prune the oi J)o not accept any substitutes infants and children, and see that mat it it and brush the wall. Such cisterns may be made with or branches are usually stronger than cmiuren, ana see Sent by mail for S!5o. in stamps. chard. All dead branches should b© BDCC TRIAL PACKAGE Leave the bottom until the cistern is without a brick arch. To arch such the buds on the trunk and will make Bears the cut off, the heads of the trees kept riKK sent by mail. and a better start. Otherwise all done then clean out a cistern with brick, a shelf should bo MOTHER GRAY'S SWEET Signature of open and small branches thinned. "In a ninrh. POWDERS, the best medicine for dm f^erisb, The lighter grades of trees with Allan's sickly Children. Sold by Recent experiments seem to indicate In Use For Over 30 Years. rootikucii use Druggists everywhere. only these side branches will of necessity -Ease Trial Package FREE. Address, 1 that the lime-sulphur formula The Kind You Have Always Bought. ALLEN S. OLMSTED. Le Roy, N. Y. be pruned to whips. which is so effective in destroying San Jose scale, will also destroy apple Drain on Country's Resources. All injured and broken roots should /iaahatt. In 1908, the foreign-born population scab and many other fungus diseases. be cut smooth to insure better healing ooubft dew Svrfiecr off/von^ pip, of 13.6 per cent, furnished 15.6 of the wounds. Peach trees grown FU per cent, of the criminals, 20.8 per upon deep soils sometimes have taproots, GLADIOLUS IS VERY POPULAR cent, of the paupers, and 29.5 per and these can be cut back to CATCHER cent, of the insane. Between 1904 and six or eight inches without injuring 1908, the aliens in these institutions Called "The Peoples'" Flower Because the trees and it makes the setting To prove how easily yon can keep yonr Increased 34 per cent. One Can Get so Much much easier. pome tree ot flies, which many health officers consider the most dangerous insect, we Satisfaction Out of It. A. will send you a Pyramid Fly Catcher CDCB It is a good plan to dip the roots Had Rheumatism—Couldn't Sleep, qr if you will send a 2-cent stamp to lllCE A lady from Oklahoma City writes: in a solution of whale oil soap—one pay mailing expense, and gjv»ss yonr tain's (By G. S. WOODRUFF.) /O €71*. *'I was sick in bed with Rheumatism, pound to three or four gallons of water—to Everybody knows the gladiolus—in sheet ankles swollen, couldn't sleep. Electropodes kill any possible aphis or plant a way. It has been called "The Peoples' month as cured me. They are great." lice upon them. Flower" because more people At Drug Stores—$1.00. No cure, no Set the trees 18 feet apart each way. Dejonge can get more satisfaction out of it, pay. Write for free trial offer. Western DMM New St, York City, The ground should be prepared as without special skill or facilities, than Electropode Co., Dept. A„ Los Angeles, thoroughly as for a cut crop. The Cal. from any other flower. As a cut outside rows should be of sufficient flower, nothing but the expensive or- Neither. distance away from any fence so that Terrors of Frankness. English Waiter—Which side of the "There is no worse vice than the operations of cutting and spraying Cs/Tient wa// So//#. table do you wish to sit on, sir? frankness," said Booth Tarkington, at can be carried on after the trees are American Guest—I prefer to sit on a farewell dinner in New York precedent full grown. Use marking places when a chair.—Judge. to his departure for Europe. plowing the furrow and run the furrows "How should I feel, for example, if I in a perfectly straight line north Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, su«jar-coated, easy to asked you for your opinion of my take as candy, regulate and invigorate stomach, and south. Make the furrows wide liver and bowels and cure constipation. plays, and you answered me frankly, and deep by going across the field and Never say die till you are dead—and quite frankly? back, plowing twice for each furrow. then it's no use.—Spurgeon. "Why, I should feel like the poor Check furrow east and west and set lady at the bridge drive who said to a tree at each intersection. her hostess' little daughter: A proper place should be shoveled 'Your eyes are such a heavenly out for the roots of the tree one man blue. And what color are my eyes, Snc/r filter should then hold the tree in place darling?' while the other shovels in some of the "The child's high treble traveled loose, moist surface soil, firming it easily to the further corner of the with his feet and hands and carefully quiet room as she replied, looking keeping the tree in line both ways. earnestly up into her questioner's The last one or two shovelfuls of soil face: should be thrown about the tree loosely 'Dwab middles, yellow whites and not tramped down. and wed wims!'" The trees should be set at a sufficient Bishop Eats His Own Boots. depth to bring the point where Cut showing construction of cement cistern in sandy soil. Note proper and Few bishops have to lead such a the trees are budded just below the Lasting and Beautiful. improper method of laying brick for arch? strenuous life as Bishop Stringer. In surface. company with a missionary companion chid lasts so long and no other flower A leguminous cover crop, such as he made a tour recently to Herschel has such variety and beauty of coloring. all the rubbish. Now, cement the bottom cut in the earth at a point where it ia crimson clover or vetch, should be Island, in the Arctic ocean, and back partly over, and lay a board on Guara*1 desired to begin the arch. This shell sown between the trees in July upon to Dawson City, where the bishop resides. Nevertheless, the modern gladiolus that part to stand on while putting the may be the width of a brick. From is almost unknown to a large majority cement on the remainder of the bottom. here up the arch may be made just Their small supply of food becoming W. DOUGLAS of our people, because of the L. Make the bottom about three as described for the cistern made in exhausted, they were obliged to eat great improvement which has been inch.es thick. sand. Made as directed these cisterns their muckalucks and moccasins. made in a comparatively short time. @5, $4, $3.50, $3 & $2.50 After the cement is set enough, say will last for years without giving any These, made of raw sealskins, were E" Workingmen's Bous' Shoes the next day, build the filter. No cistern trouble, unless they are cracked by soaked until they became glutinous, $2.00 Shoes O ll \J Sm\9$3, $2.50 & 92 is complete without one. It may DON'T NEGLECT THE ORCHARD freezing. In that case the cracks may W. L. Douglas the fire. The bishop says the food be about two bricks or sixteen inches be washed with a coating of cement shoes are worn and were then toasted in strips over square and two feet high. The filter by more men tli an as described for a finishing coat for a was real good, especially the muckalucks. No Crop Will Repay Good Care and any other make, is simply a brick box in the bottom new cistern. Cultivation Better Than the of the cistern into which the pipe connected BECAUSE: Fruit Trees. with the pump extends. It is Time of Sowing. W. L. Douglas $5.00 laid up as tight as possible with cement Early Spring is the best time to sow and 84.O0slioesequal, (By S. C. MILLER.) Children 6tyle, fit and wear, .ill mortar mixed about one part a lawn, as grass makes a better No one thing seems more difficult to 'Other makes costing iiSSKW cement to three jterts sand. growth during the cool, moist weather SG.00 to $8.00. impress upon the minds of the farmer W.L.Douglas 83.50, To make the top of the filter, lay of Spring than later. July and August and fruit grower than the fact that Especially ®3.00,«3.50 and $2.00 some iron strips across to hold the are usually too dry. j. «lioes are the lowest the orchard like other growing crops price, quality considered,in brick on the top, then lay on the brick Seeding Banks. needs care and culture and that when the world. Like and cover with about one-half inch of Trouble is often experienced in getting neglected they will tell the sad story, Fast Color Eyelets. The genuine have W. L. Douglas name and price cement mortar on top. Set the pipe grass to grow on a steep slope. the same as other farm crops. No crop •tamped on the bottom. Tnke No Substitute. in and wedge it tight. Make the connection Ask your dealer for W.L.Donglns shoes. If they This is usually because the heavy will repay care and cultivation better are not for sale in yonr town write for Mail Order Catalog, The sweet, "toastie" while the filter is being made, giving nil directions how to order by mail. Shoes rains wash the seed out before it becomes than an orchard and no crop will suffer •ordered direct from factory delivered to the wearer all so that the pipes may not be loosened flavour of established. This may be prevented charges prepaid. W. L. DOUGLAS. Brockton, AUSa. more by neglect. For the first five No. 2, Properly Pruned. No. 3, Headed after the mortar is set. Let the pipe by running a heavy board along or six years the trees should be cultivated WESTERN CANADA Too High. extend to within two inches of the the top of the slope, to turn the water Post and after this a system of cultivation bottom of the filter. The water will to some convenient place where a BOX cover crops and grasses may soil poor in organic matter and nitrogen run into the bricks as fast as it can culvert may carry the water over the be introduced according to the growth and this cover crop plowed under What Prof. Shaw, th« Wcll-Known Agri* be pumped out, an* it is always clear edge of the slope until the sod is established. culturlst, Says About Its of the trees and the amount of the Toasties the following April will greatly assist and much purer than unfiltered water. MI would sooner raise cattle In Western It is*also a good plan to fruit produced. in enriching the soil. than in the corn belt of Build the arch by starting low sow plenty of seed. the United States. Feed On most soils there will be sufficient Crimson clover should .not be permitted Is cheaper and climate enough so the top of it will just come Mowing. better for the purpose. natural fertility to produce a favorable to grow in the orchard late Your market will improve even with the top of the ground, if the As soon as the grass is high enough growth of wood and I believe that it faster than yonr in the spring as it takes out much farmers will produce the cistern is to be built out of doors. it should be kept mowed with the lawn will be more profitable to use no fertilizer •applies. moisture of the soil which is needed Wheat can be Crisp, fluffy bits of perfectly grown tip to the 60th parallel cistern under the house causes moro mower, as this makes a thicker, closer until after the trees begin to by the trees. [8G0 miles north of ripe white corn— or less dampness and rots the sills the International boundary]. stand of grass. The clipping may remain produce fruit. Sometimes when the Yonr vacant land and joists. on the ground if not too heavy, taken at a rate soil is deficient in available plant food cooked, rolled and then present concep,..e Start the arch one-fourth of the diameter Protecting Against Sun Scald. and protect the plants from drying have enough it may be an advantage to use a mineral toasted to an appetizing people In the United of the cistern below the surface out. The protection given to guard fertilizer, but as a rule I believe States alone who want homes to take up this land." Nearly of the ground. For a cistern brown. against sun scald will perform a dual LEROY CADY, that better trees are grown from the 70,000 Americans measuring ten. feet across the top, the purpose of guarding against rabbits, Assistant Horticulturist, natural fertility of the soil, and that a ^\Y'UCr'-i arch should be started two and a h*if Served with cream and or in case this has not been done, as will enter andmake their homes University of Minnesota. better root system is developed than In Western Canada this year. feet below the surface. The manhole ffc in case of forest trees, where the 1909 produced another large sometimes fruit, this KBSsjSK&sarayssaj when there is manure and commercial at the top should be built up about a number of trees is so large it is not The Plum Cureulio and Codling fertilizers used to hasten the growth dainty food pleases the KM** exports was as an an Immense immense lte Item, foot above the ground, and have two convenient to tie up each tree, then it Moth are destructive of fruit. Spray of the trees. aising. dairying, mixed whole family. farming and grain Browing In the Jld covers with an air space between them the trees now with arsenate of lead or is well to remember that the rabbit After the roots interlock each other provinces of Manitoba, Saakatchewran to prevent freezing. Dig back of the and Alberta. arsenate of soda and water, or in place has a sensitive nose and ean be kept go that they occupy all of the soil, Free homestead and nre-emptton Give the home-folks a walls of the cistern and start laying as away by applying with a swab a combination turea^u well lands held of water use Bordeaux mixture spray they have utilized practically all of the the bricks the same as for any other of blood, soap and tobaeco. provid?2iomee again just as the blossoms fall treat. available plant food in the soil and Adaptable so arch, so that the weight will come on ten days later. Eighty per cent of the mate, splendid schools and if the trees produce superior fruit churches, and good railways. the solid ground instead of on the "The Memory Lingers" fruit can be saved. Three pounds of they must be liberally fertilized. The For settlers' Use of Nitrate of 8oda. walls. (See cut.) literature "Lest arsenate of lead, to fifty gallons of use ot legumes as a source of nitrogen to reach the co Nitrate of soda will force the growth tiealsrs, write Lay the bricks oil a slant as shown water or Bordeaux mixture, should be Packages 10c and 15c. and an incomplete fertilizer rich in or nation. Ottawa, Canada, to tho of melons, tomatoes and other plants. in the cut. They may look as though Cansrtina Government Agent, used for th« curculio Paris green phosphoric acid and potash is the A tablespoonful scattered about each Cluu.railay,CnSbriBlk.Gru4T'»rk«fH.D. they would not stay, but they will. arsenite of lime or arsenate of lea# J.H.XaeLaeiiUa,BaxllS,Watertowa,S.I). most efficient and economioal method tomato plant and lightly raked la irtU POSTUM CEREAL COMPANY. Ltd., When tho oourse is laid clear around kills th« insects. a of fertilizing the orchard. aadress nearest yon) produce good results. Battle Creek, Mich. —It 1 U4-&>£ -*T J&*