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wary machinery for treating the cloth, which makes it mildew and vermin proof, and propose to furnish the pre pared goods to our customers at the lowest price possible. While we are trying to protect our method by a patent it is not to make money from it. Any one of our customers will be given a right to use it as it is our aim to assist them to restore their groves and will hope to merit their patronage in another line. WARTMAN TENT- While at Citra Ave were shown a tent plan of Mr. Ed. Wartman, avlio will cover about tAvo hundred trees this fall. His plan is simply to scav the cloth together the same as if he was making a long tarpaulin. When ready to put up the tent two stakes are put up on each side of the tree and a third nailed from one to the other. One end of the cloth is gathered to gether and tied Avitli a short rope. This rope is uoav fastened to the cross pole over the center of the tree and the cloth tied back to one side. When cold is approaching two men encircle .V’r ft j j ■ -■ ' *^JKyi* * t **■ & 4 &< dpr /"?. ■ ; > ‘ the tree with the tent, and it is fastened down to the ground with pegs, tings having ])een prepared for this purpose. This plan admits of increasing their size by adding breadth and length, and is easily put up. Lamps are used as means of heating. Pain-Killer, the old and well-known remedy has acquired a world-wide re nown for the cure of sudden colds, coughs, etc., weak stomach, indiges tion, cramp or pain in the stomach, bowel complaint, diarrhoea and dysen - ter.v. It has lost none of its good name by repeated trials, but continues to oc cupy a prominent position in every family medicine chest. Avoid substi tute's, there is but one Pain-Killer, Perry Davis’. Price 25c. and 50c. 2 ♦ +. • WANTED—Several bright and hon est persons to represent us as manag ers of this and close by counties. Sal ary SOOO a year and expenses. Straight bona-fide, no more, no less salary. Po sition permanent. Our references, any bank in any town. It is mainly office work conducted at home. Reference. Enclose self addressed stamped enve lope. THE DOMINION COMPANY, Dept. 3, Chicago. (TT NO. 3.—JOHN B. STETSON’S HOME GROVE—IO ACRES. THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. The Shed System. W. S. Hart’s Shed, Editor Florida Agriculturist : in tiie problem of protecting orange groves, and other half hardy trees and plants from injury by cold, largely lies the future prosperity of Florida. Nor is she alone in the need of some prac tical plan by which this may be ac complished as nearly eA’ery State in the Union could make profitable use of such plan if once found. As this whole matter is, as yet, almost wholly Avithin the held of experiment, it surely seems desirable that all, avlio are so situated as to be able to do so, should try some one or more plans along this line, carefully mote results, and, Avliether successful or otheiwise, give his fellow horticulturists, or agriculturists, the chance to profit by them in exchange for Avliat others lnn'e done for him. After carefully considering my own needs and the several methods being tried. I last year decided to put my trust in the G. Park Kinney plan, of many small wood fires among my old, large orange trees, and in covering the younger trees with a shod of laths woven into wire so as to give a half shade. In pursuance of the first plan 1 had quite a quantity of green pine, dry lightwood and black mangrove hearts cut into four foot lengths, and during flic night of Feb. 13th last, 1 had solin' (500 fires burning. As tin' cold reached us before day light on the morning of that date, it had already done a good deal of dam age. but 1 am satisfied that at a cost of not over .$50.00 I received a benefit of at least two or three thousand dol lars, as these trees so protected are in shape to bear from one to four boxes of fruit next season, and have some fruit on them now. Groves near by. not so protected, suffered nmcli more severely. Tim timber borders about my groves may account in part for this better condition, but not wholly so. though I believe they helped to make my fires effective. A view taken in one of these groves will be found in this issue. To show the full benefits, a picture of some neighboring grove, with nearly all wood above ground de stroyed, would have been effective but economy of space requires its absence. Owing to unavoidable delays my shedding plans were not carried out in time to be of use in the winter, so my snuill trees were banked and all wood above the banking in nearly every ease, was either killed or very serious ly injured. My shed was finished ex cept closing in the sides, last spring and the beneficial effects upon both trees and land, covered with a half shade, have been all that 1 anticipated in my article pub lished in the September 28tli and October sth issues of your paper in 1 SOS. Notwithstanding all that I therein said of the summer benefits of half shade, hardly any one seems to have realized that the shed was built for any other purpose than as a protection against cold in winter. Those who ha ve watched these trees through the drouths and hot weather of the past summer are beginning to see results that surprise them, and there are now few such who do not ex press the wish for a shedded grove, while some, who a year ago scoffed at the idt*a, are now planning to cover what trees they can in the near future. The most apparenl benefits art* in marly doubling of the size of the leaves, their dark, glossy color at all limes, whether drouth exists or not. and the much more rapid growth of wood. Please note the size of the trees in accompanying cut of my shed, and hear in mind that in this grove there were hut six trees that had live wood above tin* height of my knee when 1 finished pruning last spring. La si fall 1 spread broadcast about two pounds per tree of Simon Pure No. 1. since when no fertilizer of any kind has been given this grove, and yet the trees show evidence of an excess of nitrogen, made available by the shade. My shed is fifteen to sixteen feet high, on cypress posts. Outside and middle rows, and a few others of the posts are eighteen feet long, the rest sixteen and seventeen feet. Xorth and south the posts are con nected at the top with 1 x(> inch peck cypress boards. East and west by Nos. Sand P wire (the Xo 8 over the lines of posts and stapled with long fence staples), strung every four feet, sup port tin* cover which is about half of common house laths IVi>x% in. by 4 ft., and the rest of laths, veneer cut, three inches wide. These laths are woven f Childless people often drift apart, f The wife seeks to ' happiest li<iines are those which echo to the love *and laughter erhood are often rem ediable. They grow out of a diseased or enfeebled condition of the delicate female organs. When these conditions are removed, and vital ity and elasticity given to the organs of motherhood, it frequently follows that the home is gladdened by the coming of a healthy, happy infant. There is no other medicine that will do as much for women as I)r. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. It dries up disa greeable drains, allays inflammation, heals ulceration, cures female weak ness, and establishes the delicate wom anly organs in a state of perfect health and vigor. There is no alcohol, opium or other narcotic in “ Favorite Prescription.” Any sick woman may consult Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., by letter, free. Kvery letter is held as strictly private and sacredly confidential. “I had been a sufferer from uterine trouble for about three years, having two miscarriages in that time, and the doctors that I consulted said I would have to go through an operation before I could give birth to living children,” writes Mrs. Blanche E- Evans, of Parsons, Luzerne Cos., Pa. ‘‘When about to give tip in despair I saw the advertisement of Dr. Pierce’s medicine and thought I would give it a trial as a last resort. I bought a bottle of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre scription, and after taking it felt better than I had for years. After taking four and a half bot tles I gave birth to a bright baby girl who is now four months old and has not had a day of sick ness. I cannot say too much in praise of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription.” Dr. Pierce’s Pellets are a boon to women of constipated habit. into three cables of No. 14 wire, the width of the lath apart. My trees are 2<> feet apart every way but am now doubling the trees in lie* rows one way. The posts are 15 feet by 11 ft., (■> 2-.‘> in., strongly braced, ■< i west end, by cutting bract ill to outside row near top and into second row near the ground. Cypress posts, like the rest, are used for braces. Posts show four inches of heart at the Fop. At the east end 1 have 2xß in., by 20 ft., cypress plank, strongly wired to growing trees by boring boles through the trees by the ground, passing No. 8 wire through double and placing a short piece of sound iron in the bite. The top, or supporting wires, arc made fast to a well-braced cypress boxing at lop of west line of posts, passed over a like boxing on top of east lint* of posts, then down through (lit* 2.\N plank edgewise, on the lower edge of which they are received on fence ratchets, costing 4c. apiece in Chicago, which enables me to tighten or loosen flit* whole cover at pleasure by tht* ust* of a monkey wrench. These guy wires come down at an angle of 40 to ho degrees and meet the planks at four to eight feet from the ground, as iht* position of trees makes most con venient. For tht* sides of the shed, which, as said before, art* not yet on, 1 have cy press laths %x 4 inches ami 8 feet long. I have lengthened out my fence loom to weave these with, and shall weave them snug together, fastening two rib bons of them to boards and win* along the math, west and south sides. The cast side is covered like 11 it* top. I shall use some of these 8 foot laths, woven as above, to curb in some of my trees outside of tlu* shed, using a small heater inside. It seems the cheapest, handiest, and most lasting de vice. for that purpose, that 1 can think of. I shall also weave 4-foot laths in 739