FOR FRUIT GARDENS | Trees Planted Last Fall Will Require | CARING Cultivation During Summer to Keep Soll Mellow, {| The bearing red raspberry cones, | after they have fruiting, die These cones should be cut out as soon done { us the leaves commence to turn yellow y to make room for the new growth, The new cones should not be allowed to NEW STYLE SPRAY STRAINER reach a higher growth than four and | one-half to five feet. The leading bud One by Professor Stewart | should be pinched out. This checking of Pennsvivania, Eliminates { of the main shoot causes the side Trouble With Sediment, | shoots to make growth and these in {| turn should be pinched back when a8 | they are 158 in length. Allow prob- | three to cones to the hill. All rid of the sediment. With | suckers to the is ground. Run the cultivator betwees | the rows and cut out all and { weeds among the cones, goil i should be clean and mellow, to | promote stocky growth of next year's fruiting The same { should with the Perfected uch the ving solutions, s inches lime-sulphur, four should be cut close strainer there sooner Brass The ke pt COnes. be fol berry cones. culture lowed black- Black cap raspberries differ in their manner of growth from the red llow raspberry family. They from the 1 HIGHEST QUALITY ”- b GRAPES O Heware red rust” |i areas | or blackes ries n blackberry bushes The ruiting strawberries should be FLAIR | kept clean of grass or south A muzzle vent many upon the horse's nose pre sennsylvani ; Pennsylvania, nipped limbs raska and in | chigan, Neb ' bi Sometimes old strawberry beds will notably pay to keep for another fruiting. Good fruit and vegetables in clean, | attractive packages need no salesman. | Grape vines planted this spring | should have but one shoot allowed to | grow, The critical stage in the life of a strawherry bed is the first year of its | existence, i Ground bone and wood ashes make | a complete fertilizer for fruit trees | and plants i If a new peach, apricot or plum tree | | develops yellgws or little peach, im- | Kansas \ re this respect well located Crown Galls. » only practical remedy for crown | knife A shoemaker's k is the best, as it gives a clean | rocking cut. Follow the tunnels until you find the grubs and destroy them, | th remove the dead and sulky bark, leaving a clean-cut, live bark surface Rub a little moist dirt over the wound to prevent the bark from drying too rapidly. It is a good thing to disinfect the knife by dipping it into weak car- mediately destroy it. : bolic acid solution. This prevents Watch for the little slugs darkish, | gpreading crown galls by the knife | slimy fellows-—that are likely to be on | from tree to tree | pear or cherry leaves now, TT | No grain or grass crops in the young | HMumus in Orchard Soil. i orchard; cultivation is best. Stir the rhe humus loosens the soll particles | soll every two weeks until August. which In turn increases its water ea- | Currants and gooseberries must be pocity. The humus 18 egsential for the | dusted with white hellebore at the growth of the beneficial bacteria of | first appearance of the currant worms, the soil. One of the most important | For success in fruit raising it is parts that a clover crop plays is its | absolutely necessary to keep the trees ability to change chemlieally the com: | free from all injurpus insects and pounds in the soll and put them in an diseases. available form for the trees, The Keep the fruit of strawberries cool clover crop gathers, sigests and turns | until the time to use or market them. over to the trees the plant food which | Never pick berries for market when ft has stored. they are wet, ia the em WILL NOT ! TOOK OFF BABY BLUE SHIRT Ar G “Wil Bill © Writers Out of Duffing Under heals Baseball by van ( Paragraph Garment “wild” Bill Donovan, All season Bill has been wearing a baby blue undergarment. The wires were all laid to announce, in case Bill went bad at his first appearance, that “he had nothing but a blue under shirt.” But Bill doffed the shirt be fore he started to hurl Bill's 1911 debut was not an aus piclous one, Philadelphia players wok an early fancy to his curves. Clark Griffith's bosses still bir Bin fidence in Bad Bill” Dahlen seoms to be build | Ing up a real team Mordecal Brown continually demon {| strates he is the nervy pitcher of old ball pitching i Young Cy Young appears an unex pectedly strong addition to twirling staff. The lack of a veteran catcher troubling Manager Stovall of Cleveland team. team apparently forgets considerable baseball at times. Manager Chance will have some goes to the minors. #n against scalpers, however, the bet ter the public likes it. of the American league so long as the old-time fans remain, President Lynch says the only in structions he gives his umpires are those published In the rule book. Fans want to see the hitting game and they do not wish to lose their dinners by waiting for the finish, “King” Cole Is acquiring Reulbach's habit of pitching masterly in one game and “blowing up” In the following. Mrs. Helen Hathaway Robison Brite ton does not care to sell her ball team s long as ther are playing good ball CC As) COLLEGE PLAYER BIG i Through Discipline Educational and Advantages They Are Amen able to Suggestions. Jack Pfiester fell for It, worried Lim and condition league. He started physicians again and timistic reports, series of sympathetic conspirators of form of on the club despite their op under ih remarks of the the weakened sions Accompanying It Should Be Abolished, Says Professor. College baseball, or the “murderous” from the earth, | John 8. Nollin, presi Forest col.ege te dent of Lake “Kill the umpire i" ; “When did you leave the farm?’ “ "fain't no strike, get off the dia | mond.” and “you ought to pitch hay” “1 feed that if some of the barbarity of the game 18 not abolished, the game | should be. 1 am astonished at the | conduct of Lake Forest students | When the Milliken pitcher gave » base on balls everybody jeered him It woe most ungentlemanly. Most! “This is due to the inroads of pro fesetonal baseball on the college. Con duct of students at football games is becoming better and at baseball games is worse.” a steamer Company Tamaqua increase $45,000, of pay off ej ness and $12.5600 sewers, the project At a wpe bonded indebte ion 10 a the dnees 1 which $32.500 be used to +3 TT 2 3 » A t! ing indebted additional Centralia his head fro dow of hiz home while sleep, Michael Halleck, 44 years old, gustained injuries from which died at the Miners’ Hospital Falling backwards the second-story on wih ¢ m walking in his he Sansford making Postal inspectors arrangements to are give this Tamaqua. An explosion of gas in mer Watking, of Lansford, and prob. John Domisevie, of Summit Hil mine, John Weldon, Lansford, was Hitcheock named fifty postal savings depositories, making the total num- ber to date 800. Among the newly designated ofMices, which will receive deposits July 22, are Latrobe, Mount Pleasant, Renovo, Pa.
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