The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-14

4. MIL, FhJDAY
The man who set out strawberry
bed last year aud properly cared for it
IS now reapins a rich reward.
Celery likes best a peaty soil, not one
where the water stands near the sur
face, but an old peat bog which has
been well drained.
Horses are a good deal like men in
this-that some are willing to pull all
the load and others are more than will
Ing that they should.
The sugar beet would seem specially
adapted to Mormon conditions. for the
old hlan has plenty of women and kids
of his own TO thin ont the beets.
The Surprise plum of the Americana
family was exhibited At the Minnesota
State Horticultural society last winter
of size equal TO any of the California
and Oregon fruit.
When you are in doubt about the
freshness of n lot of eggs. it is better
all around to fry them for breakfast
than to send them by the kids to the
local grocery man.
AS n general rule it is the early sown
small grains which produce the best
crops and of the best quality. When
the soil is in suitable condition in the
spring. oats, wheat and barley cannot
be sown too soon.
With dry weather after the strawber-
ries begin to bloom you can easily
double your crop by irrigating the bed.
From the blooming to the r.pening time
strawberries are the thjrstiest plants
grown in the garden.
The sugar makers of Jamaica com
plain bitterly of the competition of the
beet sugar countries. This seems
strange when Il pound of cane sugar
can be produced for cent n pound less
than a pound of beet sugar.
We have been sent samples of print
ing paper made from the fiber of the
ramie plant, tie first we have ever
seen The p#p,r is of excellent uual-
ity. almost rs tough as though made Of
rag fiber ana takes 4 fine finish.
Here are two don'ts: pon't tYv 10 do
Your own blasting with dynamite. ANA
don't try 70 sink one of thesa big prai
RE powders. Either is quite likely To
compel an administrator to hc an
pointed to settle M your estate
The least satisfactory aver.rI.osus far
thc ,yost ANA northwest arn H.,
sprucrs While thpv are rrp.ty when
vo11rm thcv Irreloe r11stv anl ,.as..,,,l
i'm tho Iov,.r IaHfs Whom Il veg,.s .ld
Either tie white. Scotch ar Austrian
pines are nrrfrra6,e.
The country Grain merchant is ahout
board of trade sharks. The tCnlplation
to take a Hirr on some option hrScts
him all the time. With the result that
this sort of business alSorhs all his
profits aud sometimes all his capital
also.
The state OF Connecticut is making
an effort to prevent the total extinction
the trailing arbutuS. penalty Of $-h
IS imposed by law for removing the
roots OF TINS plant by any one other
thah the owner OF the lahd upon which
1t grows.
mere tie writer llNes the Nolofa""
potato peetle mas almost entirely dis
dpl'eareu' rof lohS pefl"d OF years
lllls pest S'elheu 10 ne us Ilucl Oh
TO. W hat caused it to 20 We DO not
Know, but probably some sort of para
site which could eat its eggs faster
than it could lay them.
We find the KaiSerin Augusta Vic
tOria the most desirable white rose for
outdoor culture. 1t is free bloomer
under ordinary garden conditions. is
very fragrant and with proper cover
inc can no aorpia1 fbrD,rb fI,r mouth,