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comfort outside. The cows give more milk, and all the animals put on
more fat, if they have a sheltered place to take their airing. It is
also a good thing to set some bushes or small spruces along the
foundation wall of the house on the windy side. They are ornamental in
summer, and in winter they catch the snow and tuck the house in against
the wind.

When it comes to the garden, the "Value of Horticulture to the Farm"
depends largely upon the farmer's wife, for a garden needs mothering as
well as fathering. Few farmers have time to do more for a garden than
the actual labor of plowing, planting, and cultivating, and digging the
root vegetables in the fall. Somebody must watch the garden, go through
it nearly every day, poison the cabbage worms and potato bugs, keep the
asparagus and cucumbers picked, watch for the maturing of peas and
beans, and dispose of any surplus either by canning or sending to
market. To visit the garden only when you wish to gather some particular
vegetable is like milking the cow only when you happen to want some
milk.

A garden well tended puts the farm far ahead of the city home for
luxuries of the table and cuts the cost of living in two. Fresh
vegetables and cream are expensive articles in the city, inaccessible to
any but the well-to-do, but it does not take a very thrifty farmer to
have them, providing he has a thrifty wife. But to be a real helpmeet
she must have an overall skirt and a pair of rubber boots. Then the dewy
mornings will be as much of a pleasure to her as to her husband, and she
can do her garden work in the cool of the day.

A garden is especially valuable to a farm, because the farm is usually
somewhat isolated and must depend more or less upon its own resources
for freshness and variety of food. A good garden on the farm will almost
abolish the tin can, and strike off a large part of the grocer's bill,
to say nothing of making the farmer live like a king.

The Strawberry Weevil.

As strawberries are about to blossom, it would be well to keep a
look-out for a shortage in the number of blossoms, for this is the first
indication of the work of the strawberry weevil. Because of the
diminutive size of the insect, few are acquainted with it, so that the
shortage of blossoms or failure of the crop is often attributed to
frost, hail, climatic conditions or some other agency. Upon close
examination, the buds will be found to be severed from the stem, some
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