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the territory they ha\e not coxered. It ^lill sticks to the soil 

 j.r'Uiid town hut 1 ha\e seen a tew small ]ilaiits here and 

 I'lre aloiii; trails ami streams in the liills that indicate its 

 souting activities. Sunflowers, too, are si)readin<^ so rapidly 

 here that Kansas will ha\ e to j;o to planting sunflowers to 

 keep up with us. Not only along <litch-banks, curbings and 

 railroad tracks but everywhere in waste ground along the 

 river, in dry-farmed fields, unbroken gulches and gravelly 

 benches the ground is hidtlen by a blaze of yellow. There are 

 tv.o species of them 1 1 cUantluis Icntiailaris and //. arid us. 

 Generally speaking the fnrmcT prefers the improved soil 

 a!K)Ut town while the latter is more abundant on the raw soil 

 of the iiills but the two often grow together. Js this a hint 

 from \ature a> to the devclopement of a new product from 

 our semi crid tracts? "The (»ld Oregon Trail acr(^ss the 

 prairies died in a blaze of sunflowers" but it has been born 

 again uest oi the mountains, flanked with golden glory typical, 

 r.ot onl}- t)f the lure that called the white man across their sav- 

 age summits, but also of the wealth that is waiting for the ap- 

 plication of work and wisdom — Mrs M. E. Sotli, Pocatcllo, 

 Idaho. 



Owners of Comi'letu; Sets. — To the list of owners of 

 complete sets of this magazine, may now be added the follow- 

 ing : 



65. Daniel Smiley, Mohonk Lake, N. \'. 



66. University of California, Berkeley, Calif. 



67. Chas. L. Hutchinson, Corn Rxch. Nat'l. Bank, Chicago 

 68 Wm. H. Lightfoote, Canandaigua, N. ^'. 



There are still left sets 69 to 90. Set 91 is owned by the ed- 

 itor and this completes the list. We have seven additional 

 sets of Vols. 1 to 22 inclusive which can be used to complete 

 sets of those whose subscriptions began as early as 1917 but 



