Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-04-09

the stale berries bought on the market,
but fresh and clean directly from the
garden. and worth double as much as
the stale ones bought in town
| l think l know something of the cost
| of growing berries. and while concede
that they cannot be grown as cheaply
in small way as the wholesale grower
would produce them, yet will contract
/ to pay the hired man his wages, buy the.
plants and do all the work connected
with them till they are ready for pick
ing at two cents per quart for strawber-
ries. raspberries. gooseberries and cur
| rants: blackberries for three cents, and
| grapes FOR half cent per pound. and
have them all ready for picking, and
! the latter work can be done for less
trouble than you can go to the grocer
! for them.
Besides, if purchased YOU must pro-
duce something else to get the money.
| lhen you must pay for picking at least
TWO cents per quart, boxes and commits
| slons to dealers at least three cents
more. You buy crate and carry them
nome, and before YOU can eat them or
can them up, they are stale and have
lost their flavor. You have SO many
that you are rushed to get rid OF them
/ before they spoil, and eat too many at
once, often bringing on serious discr
! ders, and then go without for consider
able time; in fact, most farmers go
without them pretty much altogether.
| In the eyes of the law 1t Is not crime
TO deprive your family of these cheap.
God-given, delicious luxuries, but it is
an OHense against them, and the rush
| or the boys from the farm to the cities
! where they see things in great prOfu-
sion, bears evidence that it has more
to do with the breaking up of families
SO early in life than any other one
thing. A steady diet of hog and hon.
my pork and potatoes makes both
boys and girls restless, and they long
for change.
| Dr. Vaughan, dean of the medical fac
ulty of the university at Ann Arbor, in
a lecture before the State horticultural
society, pointed out that there were
many families seriously affected with
a disease closely resembling scurvy,
and the only effectual remedy yet found
were the rich fruit acids. All such dis
eases had yielded promptly to this
treatment. A careful computation OF
your bills for medicine during the year
Will show it to be considerably more
than the cost of the fruit garden and
SO IN many cases you can take your
choice at the same price, so unless YOU
really enjoy gruntiHg and sickness you
should begin at once to prepare for the
spring planting.
Select the highest and best piece OF
ground you can find, and as near the
house as possible, so the good wife and
children can step ont and pick the ber-
ries just before the meal. Have all
rows long so the work can be done
with the horse, with as little hand
work as possible, Draw 0nt at once
and spread a coat of well-rotted ma
nure, or If yoa do not have this use
fresh manure and let the winter rains
wash the juices down into and incor-
porate it with the soil The coarse
straw should be raked off and not be
plowed under, as it seriously Injuries the
ground in case of drOuth.
Next to the fence set II row of aspnra-
gus. Fifty or hundred plants Will
supply all the family can eat, and it is
fully equal to green peas. Five feet
from this row and three feet apart set
% Palmer, so Older or Conrath and ~
Gregg black raspberres Seven feet
further set 25 Hansell % Marlboro and
. so Cuthbert red raspberries. Another
! row, same distance. put 25 Western Fri.
umph aud 20 Taylor blackberries. anc
then row of grapes. two Early Ohio
three Moore's Early, five Delaware ana
Meyer, ten WOrden. ten Concord and 2
few AgaMan for early winter This IS
the permanent garden. which should
last several years.
Now We set for wberries so War
field, % Bederwood 80 Haverland. q
LoNett, so Greenville and so Enhance
Now with this put such vegetables a.
you need. j am perfectly well aware
, that l have provided for several times
as much AZ a family of six can eat. bui
] wanted the children to have some.
thing to take to town and sell for thci,
pin money. You will be astonished 10
see how much money You can pick uu
from such garden, to say nothing oil
, interesting the children in the work
and the general good cheer it will in
fuse into the home life--R. NJ kellogg
in Farmers Review.