Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women - Wise Acres Yearbook (Ambler, PA)

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DECEMBER—Eat Kieffer pears with what strength you have left. All sampling must be clone regularly and systematically. No cuts allowed. For make-up time, hoe strawberries, spray orchards, apply para-di-chlorobenzene, plant peach trees after sighting and stakng row’s (row's must be straight from all angles), and prune on windy days. Raw Material J. R. Floward, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, told a gathering in Minneapolis recently of the farmer to whom the Minnesota Farm Bureau had sold a membership. After vainly waiting a month or more for the results he expected, the farmer took his case to higher authorities, to the Department of Agriculture at Washington. He wrrote: “Why don’t T get my bureau? I ordered it over a month ago and it hasn’t come yet. My wrife has the school-teacher staying with us and she wants the bureau for the teacher’s room. Send it along. I can’t stand any more delay.” The department answered, according to Mr. Howard: “Sorry, but we haven’t a single bureau not in use. However, we have a very fine farm bloc here in Washington, and just as soon as the W'ork can be done wre shall have it sawed up into bureaus and one sent to you.”—The Country Gentleman. 22 N

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THE COMPOST PILE 0 Who smelled a rat?? We had Ground Hog on the fourth of February! NOTICE!—New York has moved to the Middle West. (Latest bulletin from Boston.) (When Mr. S. was giving out the pamphlets)—“What did I have last. Hog Lice?” Information Wanted Just whereabouts in Missouri is that Kaw River? (Perhaps that’s where the homesteads are.) We are reminded every once in a while that we have an “Over Seas” nurse in our midst—Rube—since when has the Streptosolen been a Streptococcus? Suggestions From the Late Senior Class JANUARY and FEBRUARY—Prepare spray tank for dormant spray. Select a freezing cold day. Wash carefully and oil all parts. Request students to wear overalls and galoshes. (This is an ancient custom at the school which must not die out.) Each student is required to become proficient at cranking the engine of the spray tank. Forty cranks are necessary for passing. MARCH and APRIL—The special object of the course is to become familiar with all kinds of fruits. During the spring months import tropical fruits and spend three-quarters of all fruit time tasting. MAY—Sample strawberries two hours daily. Each student manages pickers five minutes a week. JUNE—Sample gooseberries and currants two hours daily (Into eacli life some rain must fall; some days must be dark and dreary.”) ' JULY—Sample raspberries, blackberries, wineberries, dewberries and earliest peaches, two hours daily. SEPTEMBER—Eat remainder of peach crop. Do a little promiscuous budding, now and then, especially patch-budding on pecans. OCTOBER—Sample grapes two hours daily. NOVEMBER—Eat apple crop, saving a few perfect specimens for the fairs. 21

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