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wliich will grow in most any kind of soil 

 and under all conditions; plants which pro- 

 duce seeds in enormous numbers and have 

 other rapid methods of propagation; plants 

 in themselves sometimes truly beautiful, but 

 that have for us lost their charm ; plants 

 useless and troublesome. Emerson said of a 

 weed : "A plant whose virtues have not 

 yet been discovered." 



A large purslane plant will produce 1.- 

 230,000 seeds ; a single Russian thistle plant 

 will ripen 100,000 to 200,000 seeds ; tumbling 

 mustard, 1,500,000; shepherd's purse, 50,000. 



The seeds of many weeds are very small 

 and escape notice. A pound of clover dod- 

 der has 1,841,360 seeds; common plantain, 

 1,814,360 seeds; lamb's quarters, 604,786 

 seeds; Russian thistle, 266,817 seeds; wild 

 mustard, 215,995 seeds; wild oats, 25,493 

 seeds. If 60 pounds of wheat are planted 

 to the acre, and this wheat has 2 per cent 

 of wild mustard seed there will be distrib- 

 uted over that acre 388,791 mustard seed. 



Not only do weeds produce seeds in tre- 

 mendous numbers, but seeds with an ability 

 to live a long time. The seeds of some 

 weeds, when buried in the soil, may retain 

 their power to germinate for 15 to 30 years. 

 Such is true of the seeds of tall pig- 

 weed, black mustard, shepherd's purse, 

 dock, yellow fo-xtail, chickweed and others. 

 — Colorado Experiment Station Bulletin. 



— replaces 2 horses for lawn mowing. 



THE POWER OF GROWTH. 



There is no human engineering which 

 can compare in power with the silent ma- 

 chinery of a growing forest. It has been 

 estimated that the physical energy of the 

 sap in the plant is fourteen times that of 

 the blood in man. Professor Clark, of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, has 

 succeeded in measuring the power of the 

 growth of a squash. He harnessed it in 

 iron, put it in prison, and gave it a weight 

 to lift. The squash, thus harnessed, was 

 placed in a box in such a way that it could 

 grow only by pushing upward, and lifting 

 the long lever with the weights suspended 

 on it. The result was that the squash stead- 

 ily pushed its way upward, carrying the bar 

 and weight with it. On August 21, it was 

 lifting 60 pounds; September 15, it was 

 lifting 1.400 pounds ; October 18, it was lift- 

 ing 3.120 pounds; and on October 31, it 

 reached the 5.000 pound figure. How much 

 more it could have carried is not known, 

 for at this point the harness cut into the 

 rind of the squash. — Country Life. 



THE TREES. 



The trees have music of iheir own, a soft 

 and soothing monotone, that lulls a man to 

 rest. I have a volume to peruse, but, under 

 them, I snore and snooze, my chin upon my 

 breast. To sit beneath a swaying birch is 

 much like being in a church ; your drowsy 

 eyelids close and to the realms of dreams 

 you hie, until an active, loathsome fly camps 

 down upcm your nose. How often 1 have 

 lain awake until I saw the morning break, 

 and slumber would not come; and I would 

 sadly leave the hay, to face another toil- 

 some day, all innik and on the hum. My 

 nights are often things of dread, I toss 

 around upon my bed, and find no comfort 

 there; but when I sit beneath a tree, the 

 sweet restorer comes to me, its coattails 

 in the air. The trees have voices sad and 

 sweet, their world-old music they repeat, 

 a solemn, sylvan choir; the same old son'» 

 they used to sing when F.arth was bin a 

 half-baked thing, and mortals worshipped 

 fire. They croon their mournful lullaby 

 vvhile rnen are born, grow up and die, they 

 sigh with every breeze; and when t quit 

 this vale of tears T hope to sleep a million 

 years beneath the nodding trees.— W.vlt 

 Mason in The Canadian Countryman. 



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Actual tests on the Minneapolis City Golf Course at Glenwood Park, 

 under supervision of Supt. Theodore Wirth, showed a saving of 40% 

 in operating costs in favor of the Beeman Triplex niowing outfit as 

 against 2 horses with triple mowing outfit. 



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of horses, it v^^'orks faster, mows 25% to 100% more ground in the 



same length of time; it does not have to be fed or cared for when 



not working; it can be worked as long as necessary in an emergency; 



it mows close to fences, bushes, trees and goes under low brushes; it 



does not damage the turf as horses hoofs do; it can be used for haul- 

 ing, plowing and as a self-propellng 4 HP. power plant for belt Work 

 when not in use for mowing. It's a mighty handy machine to have 

 around on golf courses, parks, cemeteries, country clubs, etc. 



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