very pretty sight. They sow the vetch and rye together along in August or September. The vetch stands the frost and freezes of winter just about as well as the rye; and in this respect it is certainly a wonderful plant.

Before we started out, my brother informed me that this lady had a Baldwin appletree that bore 14 barrels of apples last season, and that these apples were sold right on the ground for $4.50 per barrel. Of course, I wanted to see that apple-tree. It was about as large an apple-tree as I ever saw, in perfect health and vigor, and bearing quite a crop of apples again this year, notwithstanding its wonderful feat of last season. I believe it is generally agreed that the Baldwin seldom or never bears a big crop every year; but here is an exception. While I am about it, let me remark that we took a rule and measured the spread of the branches. Measured one way the limbs make a spread from tip to tip of almost 50 feet. Across the other way it would be about 40 feet. Of course the tree had had careful and judicious pruning. The whole orchard is sprayed five if not six times every

season.

And now about fertilizers. For four years past, a heavy crop of sandy vetch and rye has been plowed under every season; and that is all the fertilizer the tree has received. The vetch and rye had just been plowed under at the time of my visit the first week in June; and our friend with the light hoe, as we passed along, dug up the vetch and rye close to the trunk of the tree where the plow could not get near enough to turn it under. This vetch and rye make excellent cow feed-especially the vetch, or feed for any kind of stock. In fact, it formed a great chunk of nutritious legume, for the plant is a legume, after the fashion of the pea family. But it is not only hardier than any pea, but I should imagine, by the way the cows grab for it, that it is also more nutritious. I can not quite understand why sandy vetch, especially where it grows as it does in the sandy soils all over Michigan, is not more grown for feed and for a cover crop.

This crop of 14 barrels was all firsts. Besides these there was a barrel or two of culls, and some cider apples. With their method of fertilizing the orchard, and pruning and spraying, they have very few seconds. I think my brother said that in sorting over about 40 barrels of apples they had only one or two barrels of seconds. There were other Baldwin trees in the orchard that bore 9 or 10 barrels; perhaps a few that went 11 or 12; but only this one had made 14 barrels of firsts. Just think of it, friends! over $60.00 for the apples on a single tree! Don't you think you could afford one or two appletrees on your premises? and after you get them, don't you believe you could scrape up enough energy to give these few trees "highpressure care and cultivation?

I suppose the sandy vetch, or winter vetch, as it is sometimes called, is especially adapted to sandy soils. It is grown to

some extent in Florida, although I do not know how much. There is some growing now on my Florida premises if the excessive rains and hot weather have not killed it. I will tell you more about it further on.

Although Michigan is a great apple State, I found apples bringing from five to ten cents apiece all over Michigan. In Traverse City I found some wine-saps at 40 cts. a dozen, but they were rather small. They came wrapped up in paper, packed in bushel boxes. I did not learn where they were grown. Just now there is not only a scarcity of apples, but potatoes, old and new, are rapidly coming up in price. Around Traverse City the farmers informed me that potatoes were bringing only 25 cts. a bushel. At the same time in Grand Rapids they were from 90 cts. to a dollar. Every little while, notwithstanding our wonderful facilities for transportation, we find this state of affairs. Why does not somebody start a movement to make a still shorter cut between the "producer and consumer"? Buy up a carload of potatoes in Traverse City and run them down to Grand Rapids, or, still further, down to Cleveland and Toledo, and get double or treble your money. I suppose one difficulty now is, that, after the carload of potatoes reaches the point where the scarcity has occurred, they might meet a sudden "slump" or drop in the market. WEED SEEDS GETTING BAD ONES ON YOUR FARM.

While looking over that beautiful farm, in one particular corner not far from the barn we were surprised and pained to see a great number of thrifty docks; and when I asked for an explanation the manager said that at one time they were short of hay, and purchased a load or two that, unfortunately, contained dock seed. The horses and cattle sorted out the good hay, and the docks were allowed to get over into the bedding, and then out with the manure. cost of eradicating those docks would be ever so much more than the hay was worth; and that is one good reason, if not the only one, for growing all the hay and every thing else on your own premises that may be wanted for stock. Just one more incident that was new to me but may not be so to others:

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There was one pet cow on the farm that gave a large amount of milk-I do not remember just how much; but the manager said when the weather was bad, and he had plenty of time indoors, he was in the habit of giving this cow a good currying and rubbing every day. This the pet cow greatly enjoyed; and not only that, she gave an extra quart or more of milk every day that she had this thorough currying all over. Now, I do not know exactly how much time this currying takes, and perhaps a quart of milk would not be sufficient to pay a man for doing it every day; but, notwithstanding this, it is a valuable suggestion. I have before reminded you that the pet hen, or, if you choose, the happy hen, is the one that makes a big record in egg-laying; and the

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