Horticulture is a branch of agricul
ture that is closely connected with
health. The more fruit people con
sume the more is their digestion
helped. This Is particularly so with
a people that eat large quantities of
meat, as do the American people. The
fruit grower is therefore supplying the
world a very important class of food.
It
is sometimes urged against his prod
ucts that the food value of thorn is
small, but this deficiency is more than,
made up for by the sanitary value of
the juices in the fruits when they are
taken in their natural state.
Pruning Fruit Trees.
I prune as many of the trees dur
ing February and March as time and
weather will permit. This makes a
third to a half of the total number
each year. Cutting with hand saws,
close and parallel to remaining limb,
thinning outer ends of limbs with pole
pruners, and leaving as many fruit
spurs, especially on main limbs, as
possible. We plan to have all the
brush removed and burned so plowing
can be commenced as early as the
soil is in condition to work, as all the
moisture is needed in decomposing the
heavy coating of manure drawn and
spread each winter.
Quarter Acre Berry Bed.
One-quarter acre of good land, set
with proper varieties and well culti
vated, should produce from 20 to 40
bushels of nice berries every season,
says M. A. Thayer. This would give
an ordinary family fresh berries every
day iii season, and a liberal supply,
canned, preserved or dried, during thef
entire year._
"SHORT TALKS B?
L. T. COOPER.,
THE STOMACH.
My but peoples' stomachs do cause a
lot of trouble. I offered to wager some
doctors In St.
