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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 79, 30 September 1893, Page 6 (Supplement)

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pants improved they wanted something better, and they finally concluded to remodel according to this definite plan. It will be well to notico the points sought in making this plan. In tho first place the barn was moved to the rear and placed so as to be nearly out of sight from the road. It is placed so far to the right of the drive that no unpleasing views are obtained by that means. Then it has enough trees planted between it and tho road so that it is concealed almost completely from view. The cattle sheds ni, S and the yards at V are also hidden. At the same time these trees mako a fine background for the smaller decorations of the yard in front. In the foreground are planted chiefly smaller shrubs, which do not hide the trees back of them. There is a large open space for a lawn in front of the house too. The vineyard and vegetable garden are located at E on the right and the orchard at the left. The walks from the house to the barn and to the road aro sufficiently direct. The plan is in many ways a good one. In remodeling an old place tho desired effects cannot be secured so well as though a good plan had been made in the first place. This plan will bear careful study and will no doubt furnish suggestions for those who want to make their places attractive. Two Ways With Weeds. Cultivators who have tried both ways know the several advantages of destroying weeds just as they are coming up to the surface. Tho ground is then rendered mellow and clean with a tenth part of the labor required to destroy large weeds. Tho crop has not then l>een re tarded in growth nearly to its entire fail ure. The estimate is made that weeds after growing a fortnight and becoming a foot high contain by cubic measure 1,000 tinies as much substance in growth or more than when first making their ap-

pearance at tho surface, and with this great difference it is easily understood why they retard or destroy growth. The Country Gentleman takes as an illustration of the foregoing the turnip crop If the weeds are riot allowed entrance, the turnips will appear like those in Fig. 1. If the weeds are rampant, the turnips will make no headway and will resemble those in Fig. 2. Late in sirmmtT is the season when so many weeds steal a large growth.

In the Vegetable (iarrten. When there is plenty of ground, plant asparagus in rows three feet apart, the plants nine inches apart iv tho rows. You cannot afford to plant potatoes with deep eyes either for home use or for market. The custom of "hilling up" corn and potatoes is no longer practiced by progressive farmers. Where good wood ashes are cheap farmers have little need of chemical fertilizers.

Why Tight Shoes Aro Going Out. Tight shoes aro going out of fashion, also high heels and pointed toes. Tho long, slender, pointed foot is no longer considered a mark of blue blood, since the indefatigable purveyor for papers and magazines has given tho exact .shape aud form of the feet of tho bluest blood in Europe and the size of boots woni by queens and princesses of the royal blood. This information has done far more to convince tho American girl who incidentally mentions thb sizo of her boots and tho narrow last she calls for than all tho artists in sculpture have written or even the given 'measurements of the Greek statues representing beauty in its highest form. Tho latter was dead, tho former living — proof that large feet and hands may go with the bluest blood, and vice versa. " "