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The Children's Farm. It has long been an unsolved prob lem, how to keep the boys, (and girls as well), on the farm. There is only one way in which it can be done. The business must be made to appear so desirable that they will have no wish to go away. A short story, in the Farm, Field and Fireside, illus trates how this may be accomplished. Of course, it is not every farmer, that can have a piece of ground set off as the one in the story was said to be, but any small piece of land may be given them and their interest aroused to such an extent that they will do their best, and that best will often surprise you. When the new railroad was built it cut off a tiny triangle of land with less than an acre in it, and the chil dren begged their papa to give it to them.*, “Let us have it for our very o wn * farm ?” -they cried,.-.and he said they-might do as f hey pleased with it. “I want to keep a pig in there,” said Ralph. “No, let’s put it in potatoes?” pro posed Ned, who was ten. “I’d rather have flowers,” said little Grace. “Each one may have a share,” said their papa. “Ralph may have a cor ner for his pig and the others may grow whatever they please.” “I guess if Ned and Grace plant things, I will too,” said Ralph. “I’ll choose beans.” It was only a tiny plot but the chil dren worked faithfully after their father plowed and harrowed the rich soil. There were potatoes and corn and beans and posies and all sorts of things growing—everything but weeds —in the small field, and everything looked thrifty. “Come and see our farm,” said Ralph proudly to a city boy who came to visit them. “It’s just fine.” “Call that a farm!” said the city boy with a loud, rude laugh, when he saw. the fertile little field. “Why, it isn’t big enough for a garden. I sup pose you kids think you’ll get rich oil this wonderful patch of dirt.” “O Ralph! Can you spare me some more of those tomatoes?” called a lady who was stopping in her buggy at the gate. “And I would like some more sweet corn if you have it.” The city boy looked on in astonish ment as he saw the lady taking vege tables and flowers. He had always heard that vegetables are not worth anything unless they are sent to the city markets, but each one of the children had a share of the bright silver coins. “I’m going to tell my neighbors about your little farm, if you don’t care,” said the lady as they filled her buggy with the things she had bought. “Frost will soon come and destroy the plants so you will want to get rid of everything before that.” “I’m sorry I said that,” said the city boy frankly. “May I help you dig your potatoes, Ned? I’ll be very care ful,” “All right.” said Ned bringing out an extra hoe. “I am to have one dol lar for each bushel, for Mr. White wants them for seed. I am glad you can see our little farm does amount to something.” Late in the autumn one of the neighbors who had been away all summer, came home and called to see Ned’s father. “I want to rent that little triangle the railroad cut off,” he said. “It don’t do you a bit of good and it will make me a nice calf lot. I’ll pay you four dollars for it for next summer and that’s more than you’d get from anyone else. It’s near my house and I’d like to have it.” “The children made more than fifty dollars from that triangle this sum mer,” said Mr. Reed, with a smile. “I have given it to them for a little farm, so you’ll have to ask them about renting it.” “Good for you, children!” said the gentleman with a smile. “I don’t want it now. I wish more of our boys and girls would have nice little farms and make money so they would not want to run away to the cities. I’m going to give my children little farms if they want them next summer.” “We’re going to make more next summer,” said Ralph. “This is just a start.” “Well, I think it is a very good start,” .said the neighbor, and I am sure he was right. Revolutionizing Discovery. The Farm Stock Journal prints a clipping from a foreign exchange which gives an account of anew spe cies of cotton which is being tested in India. While such a tree, as is described, would be very valuable in a frostless climate, is is not probable that it could be profitably grown in the United States. London “Commercial Intelligence” prints a letter from J. R. Spence, writ ten at Wellas cotton plantation, Deese, who claims to have discovered a va riety of cotton tree, indigenous to India, capable of revolutionizing the cotton industry of that country. He says: I have had the good fortune to dis cover that there exists a tree, practi cally indigenous, at present growing in various parts of the Bombay and Madras presidencies, which produces a cotton infinitely superior both in classification and staple to American cotton and in classification alone can not be equalled in Egypt. It is an astonishing fact that the value of this •vee’s product has not up to this time been discovered by anyone in the cot ton trade, notwithstanding the fact that the tree has been known to ex ist since the time of the mutiny and probably for hundreds of years previ ously. The only uses to which the •otton it produces has so far been put are the manufacture of wicks for lamps in Hindu temples and the sfuf ting of beds and pillows. After care fully examininng it I unhesitatingly expressed the opinion that it possibly would ultimately revolutionize the cot ton cultivation of India. I sent samples to Bombay and Liverpool, where experts in the former city classed it as “fine,” white in color, staple 1 1-4 to 1 1-2 inches long and said it would spin up to 00s.! in the latter city it was classed “superfine,” color white, staple 1 3-10 to 1 1-4 inch es in length, and valued at 7 to Sd. (14 to 10 cents) .per pound—above the price of “middling”— American. I then decided to undertake the culti vation of the tree on a large scale, bought up the available seed, and made arrangements to procure all grown in the neighborhood in the future. There is now considerably over a lakh (100,000) of trees on this planta tion in a most flourishing condition, growing to a height of from 4 to 5 1-2 feet, full of buds and bolls, and bear ing cotton daily after being planted only six months. The quality of the “new crop,” 190 G, cotton is superior THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST. A SaUAEE DEAL Is assured you when you buy one of Dr. Pierce’s Family Medicines—• for all the ingredients entering into them are printed on the bottle wrappers and their formula are attested under oath as being complete and correct. You know just what you are paying for and that the in gredients are gathered from Nature’s laboratory, being selected from the most valuable native, medicinal roots found growing in our Ameri can forests. While potent to cure they are perfectly harmless even to the most delicate women and children. Not a drop of alcohol enters into their composition. A much better agent is used both for extracting and preserving the medicinal principles used in them, viz.—pure triple-refined glycerine of proper strength. This agent possesses intrinsic medicinal properties of its own, being a most valuable anti-septic and anti-ferment, nutritive and soothing demulcent. Glycerine plays an important part in Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med ical Discovery in the cure of indigestion, dyspepsia and weak stomach, attended by sour risings, "heartburn,” foul breath, coated tongue, poor appetite, gnawing feeling in stomach, biliousness and kindred derange ments of the stomach, liver and bowels. Besides curing all the above distressing ailments, the " Golden Med ical Discovery ” is a specific for all diseases of the mucous membranes, as catarrh, whether of the nasal passages or of the stomach, bowels or pelvic organs. Even in its ulcerative stages it will yield to this sover eign remedy if its use be persevered in. In Chronic Catarrh of the Nasal passages, it is well, while taking the" Golden Medical Discovery ” for the necessary constitutional treatment, to cleanse the passages freely two or three times a day with Dr. Sages Catarrh Remedy. This thorough course of treatment generally cures even in the worst cases. In coughs and hoarseness caused by bronchial, throat and lung affections, except consumption in its advanced stages, the "Golden Medical Discovery ” is a most efficient remedy, especially in those obsti nate, hang-on-coughs caused by irritation and congestion of the bron chial mucous membranes. The "Discovery ”is not so good for acute coughs arising from sudden colds, nor must it be expected to cure con sumption in its advanced stages —no medicine will do that —but for all the obstinate hang-on, or chronic coughs, which, if neglected, or badly treated, lead up to consumption, it is the best medicine that can be taken. If the sweet taste of the "Discovery,” caused by the glycerine, is disliked, a few drops of lemon juice, orange or lime juice, added to each dose will make it agreeable and pleasant and will not in the slightest interfere with its benefical effects. It’s an insult to your Intelligence for a dealer to endeavor to palm off upon you some nostrum of unknozvn composition in place of Dr. Pierce’s world-famed medicines which are of known composition. Most dealers recommend Dr. Pierce’s medicines because they know what they are made of and that the ingredients employed are among the most valuable that a medicine for like purposes can be made of. The same is true of leading physicians who do not hesitate to recom mend them, since they know exactly what they contain and that their ingredients are the very best known to medical science for the cure of the several diseases for which these medicines are recommended. With tricky dealers it is different. Something else that pays them a little greater profit will be urged upon you as "just as good,” or even better. You can hardly afford to accept a substitute of unknown composition and without any particular record of cures in place of Dr. Pierce’s medicines which are of known composition and have a record of forty years of cures behind them. You know what you want and it is the dealer’s business to supply that want. Insist upon it . both in classification and staple to that of the parent tree. The yield the first year has been estimated by experts at a minimum amount of 2 to 4 ounces per tree, and, as there will be over 3,200 trees to the acre, this gives a total yield of 400 to 800 pounds per acre, which is above the average of Egypt and no less than from eight to sixteen times greater than the aver age of all India. The second year’s crop will probab ly be double the first and the third year’s double the second. Each suc ceeding crop will no doubt increase still further, as it is well known that trees of this variety after the third year have yielded 5 to 10 pounds of clean cotton per tree annually during a known life of twenty years and over. It will thus be seen that if one third of the cotton-growing area of India were planted with this tree the result of the second year would be a crop far in excess of that of this country and America put together. The quality is so excellent that it opens an entirely new field for Indian manufactures, the importance of which, bearing so greatly as it does upon fhe future prosperity of the coun try, cannot be over estimated. Imported from India; absolutely free from / fibre. Pot-grown, $2.50 each. Largest as sortment of Citrons in the United States. Also Citrus stock. Address JOHN W. BEACH, West Palm Beach, Fla. 827