The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-15
DOCTORS FOR FARMS.

oL EApeftS FOfmed to Tell
 People How to Make Their Homes Attractive
 A well knwn New Yorker who in- dulged in country home and a fancy farm is said to have remarked in a playful vein to visitor: You can nave champagne or milk, as you pre- Ter. They cost me the same" Farm Ing for the pleasures of it is generally credited with being an expensive pas time. The wealthy man who establish es model farm finds that it costs more than he counted on, and that there is great difficulty in making it meet expenses. To him the joke about turnips costing s1 apiece and potatoes representing their weight in gold has another side, which is not humorous. The desire for beautiful country places among those who have the means to provide them is increasing. Great es- tates are being laid out in ali parts of the country. This fact has brought into existence a new class of profess s1ons. Recently an association was in- corporated in this States for the pur- pose of providing expert advice for the development of every feature of an estate, with the idea of making it a harmonious whole and showing how to make it more productive and prof. table,
 1 It is intended to help the owner to make the most of his estate from the lpictureque and also the practical point of view. The association is made up of an expert on soils, an architect a civil engineer, a sanitary, engineer, a heating expert landscape artist, a a livestock expert, an entomolegist l and a lawyer. "
 This idea of an association of ex- perts to assist, those who desire to make the most of their estates is new one," said its president a afew days ago There are many ways in which the tamateur needs expert advice. For in- istanee, he may not know just where I to locate his house in order to secure the most picturesque view, and how to lay out his grounds to bring out the best points of the scenery and as farm. The architect tells him just what kind of house he ought to have, and looks after it's construction. He designs the barns and other outbuild- lings. The sanitary engineer looks after the sanitary system. The pro-
 blen of heating a coutry house is diff ferent from that of the city house. When Greystone, Sammual J. Tilden's country home, was built, 1t was found ialmost impossible to make it co1nfor
 table in the winter. Apparently there
 was something the matter with the ar rangement of the heating apparatus. An expert, who happens to be one of our staff, was called on to examine it. He located the difficulty. It was ne- cessary to tear out the old system and
 replace it. It had not been selected and put in properly. .I d..
 | Where the architect leaves off, the landscape artist takes up the task He advices how the landscape shall be treated so that it will harmonize with the house and bring out the possibili
 ties of the surroundings. For instance, he might aid the owner from falling into the error of laying out an Italian garden with an English country house.
 "The soil expert civil engineer, the entomologist and the livestock expert can save the owner of an estate much money and many mistakes. They can help to make the estate more money. Here is an illustration. The owner of a certain estate had a piece of low land which needed draining. The work had been begun under the direction of a local engineer. In the course of time the owner came to me and said: Some how I have feeling that the drain ing of my land is costing more than it ought to. I don't know what the trouble is or how to get at it. I wish you would look at it.
 l T went to his place and found that the engineer was doing his work con- scientiously, but he was laying the pipes on the side hills as we'll as in the rowland. The work was immediate ly stopped until further orders. The location of the pipes would actually have damaged the land. The owner wrote me that my three hours work had saved him $2O00.
 "The care of an orchard by an ex-
 pert will add to it's profitableness. The old fashioned farmer did not know 1 that orchards that were not too far gone could be saved, just as human life is saved, by proper treatment A man who has invested money and la bor in an orchard of 10000 trees, say, does not wish to lose the time and in- vestiment through the ravages of the scale through improper treatment
 Here is little package which has {just come in by mail.'
 ! He opened it and took from it six sections of twigs about three inches Hong. One of them had a scar upon it., and the others showed the blighting effect of the work of some insect.
 Here is where the work of the en- tomologist comes in," he said. q can ltell the condition of the whole orchard Ifrom these specimens. I know just
 what to do. This orchard needs the knife of the surgeon: The trees are three years old. Tn order to save their lives it will be recessary,to per- form a drastic surgical operation, just las you would for appendicitis in the human body, By cutting these trees