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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



roadsides, putting in the finest quality of graft. He 

 will dig up the soil at the roots and put on roadscrapings 

 or any other availahle fertilizer. Then would come the 

 setting out of marketable kinds of apples of high grade 

 wherever the soil and situation warrant it. Many a 

 township could absorb ten thousand Baldwin apple trees 

 with a good grade of ])each in between, to be thinned 

 out as the apples grow. Other varieties of apple, as well 

 as pear; cherry, plum, quince, and, to a limited extent, 

 grapes could be added, especially those for canning pur- 

 poses. Fruit trees can be raised along the highways to 

 the limit of the powers of cultivation and sjjraying and 

 marketing. When once farmers can see the advantage 

 to them they would be ready to cultivate on shares the 

 trees along their farms in the roadside. By a plan of 

 careful selection, marketing only apples of superb quali- 

 ty a town might get a national reputation for its fruit 

 and command a superior price. All but the best of its 

 fruit could be used at home in a dozen ways almost as 

 valuable from the monetary standpoint. The question 

 of small fruits, such as high grade raspberries and black- 

 berries and blueberries might be taken up and many other- 

 wise barren spots be made beautiful and fruitful as well. 

 The writer is assured in his own mind that here is a 

 practicable way of adding to a perceptible degree to the 

 wealth of the world, saving waste at least, and furnish- 

 ing a valuable life work for thousands of intelligent men 

 and women. Indeed women might assume the direction 

 of many phases of this work as well as men. Com- 

 munity leaders along this line would have an enviable 

 opportunity. The educational side of the undertaking i^, 

 most important and would help bring forward a genera- 

 tion full of big ideas. The plan adapts itself to many new 

 phases of activity, such as the Boy and Girl Scouts the 

 County Y. M. C. A. development. Let one township do 

 the thing effectively and others are bound to follow so 

 healthful and fruitful an example. The specialization 

 involved in the plan would bring a unity to the rural life 

 of the community and develop many unexpected values 

 to the town. 



By the method described, one can destroy three or 

 four webs in the time it takes to burn one besides the 

 trouble to renew rags is obviated. 



A SIMPLE WAY TO DESTROY 

 CATERPILLARS 



BY EDWARD P. SPERRY 



r^ATCH the web at its highest point. Turn your 

 stick slowly allowing it to rest gently against the 

 branch. 



Keep turning your stick down to the crotch then 

 ascend the other branch to the limit of the web. 



The entire web with every caterpillar^'imprrsoned'^ 

 the web, IS on the end of your stick to be plunged into 

 any liquid that will kill them. 



Burning out nests frequently harms the bark. 



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THIS IS THE DEVICE 



A rake handle, with carpet tacks driven in to protrude about £ 

 an inch, or, a natural stick notched by a pocket knife, as shown 



quart' 

 in the 



er of 

 cuts. 



