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have the tips pinched out when they are
2 1/2 or 3 ft high. The old canes should be
cut out. They will die in the winter if
left, and cutting them allows sunlight
and a good circulation of air.

Black raspberries grow from the tips
cut out the old canes. 2^nd article
on selecting a National flower, favors
the Laurel, Kalmia as being beautiful
graceful and well adapted for conventional
decoration.

2^nd Reader, Mary Brooke, On "Birds and
their enemies." Statistics from the Department
of Agriculture show that the cat
destroys more birds than all other
natural agencies combined. This reckoning
includes the fox, hawks and owls.
It is a hereditary insctict that makes
the cat a bird-hunter, even tho' well
fed. The loss falls heaviest in most locations
on such familiar species as
the robin and the song sparrow.

Kate Janney told of being much troubled
with screech owls. Fred Thomas
said that screech owls destroyed a
great proportion of the small birds.

Forethought

Late cabbage must be set
out if a good season occures; if it
comes not, we must make a season.
Let out celery and water it well; plant
cucumbers for pickles; plant corn 1st and
middle of July. Keep the flower garden
weeded; sow seeds of perrenials. Begonias
like a soil of leaf mold and