The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-31

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a man never gets too old to learn
something new about natural law.
A common garden rake is a great
weed killer if only used at the pronnr
tine
The cherry is the best fruit and the
most difficult fruit to raise that we
have.
We never buy anything from a ned.
dler and never sell him anything save
rags.
Eggs at - cents per dozen are one Of
the most nutritious and cheapest foods
10 be obtained.
October milk makes the finest flavor
ed cheese. The weather conditions are
also better for curing the cheese.
More fruit can be obtained from q
few strands of Columbian raspberries
than from any other variety of this
fruit.
If you have never been visited by the
hog cholera, don't brag. It's your good
luck and not your smartness which has
exempted you.
Some of the stories told and warns
spun by men working on the road are
as questionable as the methods of do
inc the road work.
The American boy who is denied the
opportunity to trap and drown out
gophers in the spring misses a great
deal of sport and fun.
Nobody can break in the colts better
than the farm boy, and he should be set
Mt this work as soon as the colt is
MeaHGu, anu even before,
People like to see good horses. and so
il comes that the horse show in Chi.
caeo the past winter paid its origna-
tors dividend of % per cent.
The most successful farmers whom
we know today started life 80 or 40
years ago as hired men, but they were
not like some hired men of today.
Hogs have ranged 80 per cent higher
during the past II months than for the
previous year. War and prosperity are
mostly responsible for this advance.
1t might be good idea for you to
plow up your last years hogyard and
sow it to rape. 1t will grow a big crop,
and the hogs will do we'll on it later on.
About the poorest use to put good
farm to is to make it grow timothy
seed. When so used, the land is annu-
aiir robbed for the smallest possible
return.
Time spent in making the home lot
attractive and pleasant is always time
well spent. AS home looks from the
outside, so it is more than likely to look
On the inside
There are over 1000 varieties of peo-
MES and no plant giving profusion Of
rich bloom is easier to care for. Once
planted they are as long lived as an
asparagus bed.
When the young man on the farm
mas been to church and Sunday school
on sunday morning, there is nothing
wrong in his going to see his best girl
sunday evening.
Get small package of alfalfa, soy
Deans and rape, these three, and give
lhem an experimental trial this year.
SOW, say, rod square of each and find
out something for yourself
N 4NSISidtINc NOTh Oh lue bTOul
OH Will have to be all gone over again
aI the next session of congress. The
prospects for its final passage are con-
Sldered good by its friends.
II you have plenty of water-a run
hihg stream or a big pond-near the
farm home, it is well enough to keep
some ducks; if not, then we would let
some one else raise the ducks.
There are plenty of small boys who
VIII be glad to dig bushel basketful
OIL dandelions out of your lawn for a
hlcAel, and it is the cheapest way in
which to get rid of these pests.
4here should be at least one-fourth
OF an acre of sweet corn planted for
each COW which will be in milk during
'He month of August. Try this this
year II you have never done so before.
When men get to be as particular
about tie kind and quality of the seed
which they SOW in their fields as they
ure about the brand of tobacco which
.ney chew or smoke, there will be bet
ter crops raised.
Nothing which the president will see
uufing his coming trip to the Pacific
coast is likely to more deeply impress
uiin than the marvellous development