Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1891 — ORCHARD AND GARDEN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ORCHARD AND GARDEN.

(Shipping; Grapes. When shipped from distant points the best packages for grapes are cases containing eighteen three-pound boxes and covered baskets holding ten or twelve pounds. All packages should be filled so full that the cover will drawdown tightly on the contents, holding them firmly in place, but not so as to bruise the fruit. Near-by shippers also largely use the covered baskets, and they are generally considered to be the most desirable package. Many shippers to not &ot distant points use flat, wooden boxes, with hinged cover, measuring about twenty-one inches long, twelve inches wide and five inches deep, and holding twenty-five to thirty pounds. These boxes have to be returned to the seller, and many buyers object to them for that reason.—Orchard and Garden. KIIHd? Potato Rug<. Like many others, I am dissatisfied with Paris green, regarding it not entirely safe. I now prefer to pick the

bugs; at the same time it is quite necessary to destroy the eggs, which are always deposited on the under side of the leaves. To do this thoroughly it was necessary to stoop over at every hill and turn all the leaves up, in search of eggs. This is a back-aching task. To obviate a great portion of it, an imple-

ment was made which works charmingly. The handle and crosspiece are of wood and the half circle is heavy wire. The leaves are raised with this and eggs easily detected. Stooping has not to be done unless eggs are found.—Galen Wilson, in Practical i