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By George Klingle, Summit, New Jersey 



"'I'n (Iimde TO Nature" is llu- nflicial organ of the LaRue Holmes Nature League. It is im- 

 portant, for the general league interest, that the magazine be liberally supported, through the active 

 cooperati in of League members — George Klingle. 



L. 11. Nature League Motto: "Self-sacrifice; heroism for another." 



The most recently formed "United 

 School Chapters" are Miss Dana's 

 School, South Street, Morristown ; the 

 \\ cm held High School, Westficld, 

 New [ersey. 



Reports of Observations Desired. 



The migrations are over. The cen- 

 sus of the remaining" wealth of your 

 locality in wild flowers has been taken. 

 Will you send to me, at Summit, New 

 Jersey, copies of the records from 

 wherever you may reside, together 

 with the names of the most successful 

 recorders — of those who most ear- 

 nestly seek to know, by sight and 

 name, the wild things of the woods? 



forests; of the industries nearing their 



death throes, through the destruction 

 of the steady power of the mountain 

 water ways; of the interests of the 

 tillers of fertile fields which are now 

 being impoverished through accumu- 

 lations of debris washed down from 

 deforested mountain sides? Do you 

 use your pen, if you have a right hand, 

 and send your appeals beyond the area 

 reached by your voice? If you are a 

 nature lover the ring of the axes comes 

 to you in echoes. Help to hush them. 



Stop the Devastation of Trees. 



If you are truly a nature lover you 

 hear across the winds the ring of the 

 thousands of axes, yet swinging in 

 forests which the nation has tried to 

 save, but which our representatives in 

 Congress have, so far, doomed to de- 

 struction. 



If you are truly a nature lover you 

 await, a bit breathlessly, the hour when 

 the demands of this nation's intelli- 

 gent element shall be respected, and 

 the ring of the axe be hushed in the 

 Appalachian and White Mountain for- 

 ests. But what are you — you individ- 

 ually — intending to do toward hasten- 

 ing the time? Will you give even one 

 hour of your life in heloing to deluge 

 the men at the helm with expressions 

 of sentiment in behalf of the preserva- 

 tion of the grandeur of our mountain 



Saving the Elm Trees. 



Have you or your neighbors elm 

 trees which are dying? If so what are 

 you doing to save such valuable posses- 

 sions? 



I will tell you why the elm tree which 

 I own is green and flourishing at this 

 autumn season. As soon as the insects 

 make their appearance in the early sum- 

 mer, the tree is scrubbed, with strong 

 soap suds for a distance of eight or ten 

 feet up the stem. When dry a coat of 

 thick molasses is given over six feet of 

 the surface of the stem. A cloth or raw 

 cotton, about ten inches wide is 

 wrapped around the tree about six feet 

 from the ground, and a thick coat of tal- 

 is spread over the cloth or cotton. The 

 majority of the insects are caught in the 

 tar and any that remain are occasion- 

 ally brushed down with a wet brush, 

 and fall either into the tar or wood 

 ashes which is thrown about the base 

 of the tree. 



An Incomplete Quotation. 



Owing to an erroneous omission of 

 a few words, in the quotation from Mr. 

 Kellogg, on page 228 of the September 

 number, it read "show his readers their 

 purchasing power." 



It should have read : 



"Let the Editor show his readers how 

 to become better workmen with such 

 tools as are within their purchasing 

 power ; then, if the readers profit as 

 they ought by the instruction received, 

 they will be in positions to supply the 

 better pictures that are w r anted." 



