for December, 1920 



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STATEMENT OF THE OWN- 

 ERSHIP. MANAGEMENT, CIR- 

 CULATION, ETC.. required by the 

 Act of Congress of August 24, 1912. 

 of "Gardeners* Chronicle of Amer- 

 ica," published monthly at New 

 York. N. v.. for October 1, 1920. 

 State of New York | gg. 

 County of New York J 



Before me, a notary public in and 

 for the State and county aforesaid, 

 personally appeared M, C. Ebel, 

 who, having been duly sworn ac- 

 cording to law. deposes and says 

 that he is the editor of the "Gar- 

 deners' Chronicle of America" and 

 that the following is to the best of 

 Iiis know led ce and belief a true 

 statement of the ownership, man- 

 agement fand if a daily pai>er, the 

 circulation), etc., of the aforesaid 

 publication for the date shown in 

 the above caption, required by the 

 Act of August 24, 1912, embodied 

 in section 443. Postal Laws and 

 Reguiaticns, printed on the reverse 

 of this form, lo wit: 



1. That the names and addresses 

 of the publisher, managing editor, 

 and business manager are: Pub- 

 lisher. The Clironicle Press, Inc., 

 286 Fifth Ave., New York. N. Y. 

 Editor, M. C. Ebel, 286 Fifth Ave.. 

 Xew York. Managing Editor, M. 

 C. Ebel, 286 Fifth Ave., New \''ork. 

 Business Manager. M. C. Ebel, 286 

 Fifth Ave., New York. 



2. That the owners are ((iive 

 names and addresses of individual 

 owners, or, if a corparation, give 

 its name and the names and ad- 

 dresses of stockholders owning or 

 holding 1 per cent, or more of tin- 

 total amount of stock.) 



The Chronicle^ Press, Inc.. 2S_6 

 Fifth Avenue. New York. N. Y. 

 M. C. Ebel. Madison. N. T. M. E. 

 Hurniston and T. A. Burniston, 

 both of. Summit, N. J. S. Waren- 

 dorff. 325 5th Ave., N. Y. Chas. 

 H. Totty. Madison, N. J. A. 

 Bauer. Deal. N. J. J. Barnett, 

 Sewickley. I^a. 



3. That the known bondholders, 

 mortgagees, and other security hold- 

 ers owning or holding 1 per cent, 

 or more of total amount of bonds, 

 mortgages, or other securities are: 

 (If there are none, so state). There 

 are no bondholders, mortgagees or 

 other security holders. 



4. That the two paragraphs next 

 above, giving the names of the own- 

 ers, stockholders, and security hold- 

 ers, if any. contain not only the 

 owners, stockholders and security 

 holders as they appear upon the 

 books of the coinpany, but also, in 

 cases where the stockholder or se- 

 curity holder appears upon the 

 books of the company as trustee or 

 in any other fiduciary relation, the 

 name of the person or corporation 

 for whom such trustee is acting, is 

 given ; also that the said two para- 

 graphs contain statements embrac- 

 ing affiant's knowledge and belief 

 as to the circumstances and condi- 

 tions under which stockholders and 

 security holders who do not appear 

 upon the bonks of the company as 

 trustees, hold stock and securities 

 in a capacity other than that of a 

 bona fide owner; and this affiant 

 has no reason to belirve that an\ 

 other persons, association, or corpo- 

 ration has any interest rlirect or in 

 direct in the said stock, bonds, or 

 other securities than as so stated 

 by him. 



Sworn to and subscribed before 

 me this 4th dav of October. 1920. 

 M. C. EEKL. Editor. 

 [Sean C. J. KELLER. 



(Mv cr-mmission expires March 

 30. 1921.) 



SHELL 



FIRE INCREASES 

 DUCTIVITY. 



PRO- 



The effect of .shell fire on the farm land 

 of Xorthern France is explained in the re- 

 port brought hack from France by Hugh 

 FnllcrtoTi of the Long Island Ac^riciiltural 

 Fxperinicnt Station, on behalf of ihe Ameri- 

 can Coniniittfc for Devastated hVance, of 

 which Miss Anne Mor.can is the head. 



"The French agriculturists believed that 

 the devastated areas would never again be 

 productive." he said. "I went over two 

 months ago convinced that this was not true, 

 because I had had experience in tearing up 



Long Island soil with dynamite and had 

 found the subsoil fertile. It is an aid axiom 

 of agriculture that the subsoil cannot be pro- 

 ductive, and the bVench government, acting 

 on this premise, had condemned large por- 

 tions of what used lo be the most productive 

 areas of France. 



"In company with Miss Morgan and rep- 

 resentatives of the French government, I 

 visited one of the worst bits of the Aisnc war 

 zone. It was called 'Red Monkey Plateau.' 

 which was taken and retaken IS times. Not 

 a trace of cellar wall remains to tell of its 

 villages, and the soil was overturned to the 

 depth of two to five feet. 



*'.\t the foot of the hill the French experts 

 were still maintaining that nothing could 

 grow there. When we reached the top we 



found ourselves wading knee deep through 

 the richest red clover 1 have ever seen. The 

 leaves were as big as silver dollars. Alfalfa 

 covered the deepest holes. 



"I will say this for the French: They 

 were prompt to admit their error. Within 

 two days the order condemning this territory 

 was revoked. Four thousand people re- 

 turned to their old homes in one (h\y. 



"It appears that the plowing done by the 

 shells brought to the surface the deep soil 

 which contains valuable materials of which 

 the top soil, used for generations, had been 

 depleted. Riding through b"rance, one can 

 trace the lines of the trenches, now filled in 

 and planted, bv the richer, darker green of 

 the wheat growing in the deep-plowed soil." 

 —The Field. 



