mains in the machine as ice.

At ordinary household refrigerator temperatures this syrup-like cider
will keep perfectly for a month or six weeks, and if kept at low
temperatures in cold storage will keep for prolonged periods. At
ordinary house temperatures it, of course, will keep a shorter time.

To make the concentrated syrup, the cider mill must add to its equipment
an ice-making machine and centrifugal machinery, so that the process is
not practicable on a small scale. The specialists are hopeful, however,
that the commercial test soon to be inaugurated in Oregon will show that
it will be possible for apple growers to concentrate their excess cider
and ship it profitably to the far South or to other non-producing
regions. The specialists also believe that it will enable apple
producers to prolong the market for cider.--U.S. Dept. of Agri., Oct.,
1914.

How Mr. Mansfield Grows Tomatoes.

MRS. JENNIE STAGER, SAUK RAPIDS.

Somewhere around 1870 Mr. Wm. Mansfield, of Johnsons Creek, Wis.,
commenced to apply what Gov. Hoard, of Wisconsin, told him was
"persevering intelligence," to the propagating and improving of the
tomato, and he soon found out that the tomato was capable of almost
unlimited improvement. He has made a specialty of the tree tomato, of
which he says he has demonstrated to the world that in the Mansfield
tree tomato he has produced one of the greatest wonders of the age. All
who have seen them, tasted or grown them, with even a small degree of
good sense, are loud in their praise for their good qualities: wonderful
growth of tree, beauty of fruit, smoothness, solidity, flavor,
earliness, etc.

In giving directions how to grow them he says you should remember that
if your brightest child is raised among Indians he is not likely to
become president. Neither will the tree tomato if thrown on a brush
pile, or just stuck in a poor, dry place and left to care for itself, be
ready to jump on your table, on the Fourth of July, or any other month,
a ripe, delicious, two-pound tomato.

He says first get your seed of some reliable person, who can warrant it
pure and all right. Then at the proper time, which in this climate would
be some time in March, get some rich old earth for boxes in your house,
hotbeds or greenhouse. Sow the seed, cover lightly, wet down every day
and keep warm, with all the sun possible. When up ten days transplant to
other boxes, six inches apart, and not less than four inch