For October, 1921 



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eyelids close and to the realms of dreams 

 you hie, until an active, loathsome fly camps 

 down upon 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 punk and on the bum. My 

 nights are often things of dread, 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, tlieir world-old 

 music they repeat, a solemn, sylvan choir; 

 the same old song they used to sing when 

 Earth was but a half-baked thing, and 

 mortals worshipped fire. They croon their 

 mournful lullaby while men are born, grow 

 up and die, they sigh with every- breeze ; and 

 when I quit this vale of tears I hope to 

 >leep a million years beneath the nodding 

 trees. — The Canadian Countryman. 



WHY FLOWERS FADE 



Prof. Hans iMtting of Bonn University 

 lectured on the above subject some time 

 since and The Scientific American for Sep- 

 tember contains an abbreviated translation 

 of the paper as it appeared in a Berhi? 

 paper. The lecture was naturally scientific, 

 but Prof. Fitting's experiments tend to prove 

 that fading and dropping of flowers is 

 largely hastened through injury or irrita- 

 tion to the stigma. The fact that fertilized 

 flowers drop or wither more quickly than 

 those not pollinated is, it is assumed, merely 

 an illustration of the irritant effect on the 

 stigma. 



To keep flowers as long as possible we 

 must prevent pollination and keep clear of 

 all kinds of gas, even vitiated atmosphere, 

 tobacco smoke and sudden heating. Strange- 

 ly enough some orchids last longer after 

 pollination. — Florist/ Exchange. 



THE POWER OF GROWTH 



There is no human engineering which can 

 compare in power with the silent machinery 

 iif 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 

 lx>x 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 steadily pushed 

 its way upward, carrying the bar and weight 

 with it. On .August 21. it was lifting 60 

 nounds ; September IS, it was lifting 1,400 

 pounds ; October 18, it was lifting 3,120 

 l)ounds ; 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, thus putting an end to the ex- 

 periment. — Country Life. 



TREES AND SHRUBS WHICH AT- 

 TRACT BIRDS 



In an article Prof. Alan F. .Arnold, of the 

 New York State College of Forestry, stated 

 there was a possibility of many of our native 

 birds disappearing altogether through lack 

 of shelter and food to their liking. The 

 writer then proceeded to give a list of advis- 

 able trees and shrubs to plant in the en- 

 deavor to supply the birds with the food 

 they seek. Additionally, the professor drew 

 attention to the fact that many of the plant- 



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Prof. Arnold continued "The list of trees, 

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