November 2, 1918 



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of room in which to display their 

 greatest beauty, that they are often 

 attacked by the San Jose Scale which 

 is easily controlled by spraying, and 

 that their leaves are preyed on by 

 the caterpillars which feed on the 

 leaves of the apple trees of orchards. 

 — Arnold Arboretum Bulletin. 



PLANS FOR TEMPLE OF AGRICUL- 

 TURE. 



Mr. Charles S. Calwell, president of 

 the Corn ISxchange National Bank, 

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is to have 

 charge of the bank end of collecting 

 the money for the Temple of Agricul- 

 ture. This arrangement has been re- 

 cently brought about by a sub-commit- 

 tee authorized to act in the matter. 

 The following are the members of the 

 committee on the Agricultural Tem- 

 ple: A. A. Elmore, Spokane, Washing- 

 ton, chairman; Gifford Pinchot, Mil- 

 ford, Pennsylvania: Milo D. Campbell, 

 Cold water, Michigan; J. H. Mills, Jen- 

 kinsburg, Georgia; Maurice McAuliffe, 

 Salina. Kansas; S. J. Lowell, Fredonia, 

 New York; J. A. McSparran, treasurer, 

 Furniss, Pennsylvania; Joe Niccolls, 

 Winfield, Iowa, seci-etary. 



There will be a meeting of this com- 

 mittee at Denver, Colorado, on Novem- 

 ber 19, 1918. 



At a recent meeting of the commit- 

 tee, it was unanimously decided that 

 War Savings Stamps and Liberty 

 Bonds should be accepted as contribu- 

 tions to the building fund. Plans are 

 under way to augment the sale of Lib- 

 erty Bonds by calling the farmers' at- 

 tention to the two-fold purpose to be 

 served in the purchase of bonds, as a 

 necessary and patriotic duty and in 

 connection with the financing of the 

 Agricultural Temple. 



Dr. Richard T. Ely of Madison, Wis- 

 consin, noted economist and secretary 

 of the American Association for Agri- 

 cultural Legislation writes as follows: 

 "This idea of an Agricultural Tem- 

 ple in Washington is a splendid one 

 and I think it will certainly meet with 

 success. I notice that you mention 

 particularly bureaus of research in 

 connection with this Temple. This is 

 a fine idea." 



FROM A WAR GARDENER. 



J. Froat. tarry just a while — 

 For a little keep away I 



Mercy, for the cosmos sweet. 

 Marigolds so bravely gay, 



Respite for my cabbages, 

 Beans and peppers still, I pray! 



See, the clematis yet frames 

 Fragrantly the great house door! 



There's a white rose coming out- 

 stay your coming, I Implore! 



Let my squash vines, full of buds. 

 Grow unscathed, a few days more! 



If you must have work to do. 

 Paint more brilliantly the trees — 



Make the forests glow and flame 

 With their autumn tapestries! 



But my garden still reprieve- 

 Have a heart, dear J. Frost, please! 



— Mazie T. Caruthers in the Times. 



IN UPPER CANADA. 



Our genial friend Benjamin Ham- 

 mond, president of the American Rose 

 Society, has recently returned from 

 an eight-day, 3,000 mile trip to cer- 

 tain gold mining regions in Canada in 

 which he is interested. He has a 

 large collection of photographs which 

 he took on his journey and which he 

 delights to show his friends. We ex- 

 tract the following notes from an in- 

 teresting account which he contrib- 

 uted to the Beacon Herald: 



The atrocities of the German 

 armies on non-combatants as told by 

 men who have been on the battle 

 scarred region of France and Belgium 

 outdo the frontier history of a hun- 

 dred and fifty years ago when the 

 wild American Indian made his on- 

 sets upon frontier settlers. 



On a recent trip over the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway we fell in with a 

 body of fine young men on their way 

 west, destined for Siberia. This body, 

 called "The Snowball Battalion." 

 turned out and marched around while 

 the train at the division stations 

 changed locomotives. Canada has 

 some seven million inhabitants and 

 has already sent four hundred thou- 

 sand soldiers to France. Some twen- 

 ty-five or more thousand have re- 

 turned disabled. No better soldiers 

 for grit or grace have yet been found, 

 and the men who have come back and 

 been in the actual conflict, said the 

 Yanks were our own brothers. To 

 listen to the devastation, destruction 

 and horrible treatment, as quietly 

 told, to which the German army, with- 

 out restraint, has visited upon Bel- 

 gians and French place the German 

 military outside the pale of a civil- 

 ized people. 



In Canada men are scarce for agri- 

 cultural work or general business. 

 In many things women are handling 

 the work of laborious character, but 

 from appearances there is a break 

 down in artificial manners. The peo- 

 ple seem to act like a general family 

 gathering at Thanksgiving time. 

 Speaking with the manager of a 

 branch of the Royal Bank, of Canada, 

 the proof was given of the personal 

 effort to invest earnings and savings 

 in government securities. War taxes 

 are on everything. 



Two hundred miles or more beyond 

 Port Arthur on Lake Superior the 

 pioneer farmers were loading cars 

 with potatoes, and sixty cents per 

 bushel was said to be the cash price 

 paid at the station. At Port Arthur 

 on Thunder Bay, the northwest sec- 

 tion of Lake Superior, Is a ship- 

 building plant of large dimension and 

 wooden ships were being built. Acres 



of logs were floating in the booms. 

 I asked where they got all the work- 

 men from, and the answer was: the 

 work is an attraction and we gather 

 men from the States in large num- 

 bers, and all over Canada. 



At Fort William, where the great 

 grain elevators are located, which re- 

 ceive the wheat and flax from the 

 prairie farms, west of Winnipeg, the 

 report was there is a bigger crop than 

 last year. 



The Indians are no more wild In- 

 dians. They dress as well as anyone 

 and seem to be able to do any kind 

 of work. Now is the season that the 

 game laws are up. Going down one 

 of the lakes the little steamer Gala- 

 tea was hailed and took two parties 

 aboard, including men, wornen, chil- 

 dren and dogs, with a ton or two of 

 provisions and a victrola, for a trap- 

 ping period in the bush or woods. 



Mr. Hammond speaks enthusiasti- 

 cally of the beautiful wild sweetbriars 

 which were abundantly blooming 

 everywhere. Sweet peas in flower on 

 the fences were also common, and 

 the masses of roses on the fringes of 

 the woodlands made a lovely effect. 



UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN. 



By R. J. Baldwin, Michigan Agricultural 

 College. 



November 11 to 18 will be wel- 

 ( omed gladly by all who understand 

 the work of the co-operating organ- 

 izations. The services of the Y. M. 

 C. .\.. K. of C, Jewish Welfare Board, 

 ond Salvation Army, are for the same 

 purpose and it is a happy develop- 

 ment that they should now work to- 

 gether in appealing to the people of 

 America for financial aid. 



We have seen how these organiza- 

 tions have joined hands in carrying to 

 our boys the touch of home care and 

 comforts from their own homes to the 

 fighting fields overseas. We at home 

 should join hands in providing funds in 

 order that this service of home com- 

 fort may not break down for a single 

 soldier a single day. From Chateau 

 Thierry, Belleau Woods, and St. Mlhiel 

 have come inspiring stories of service 

 to men in action. This inspiration 

 should be re-echoed from farm and 

 city alike in sacrifices to make pos- 

 sible even greater service to the men 

 fighting In many lands. 



Rochester, N. Y.^The estate of Na- 

 than R. Graves wishes to announce to 

 the trade world that the business of 

 the late Nathan R. Graves, horticul- 

 tural photographer, will be continued 

 by Mrs. Graves. 



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