274 BOAKD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Hale: I have a few -words I would like to say on the subject 

 we passed over without any discussion, that is spraying. Now, spraying 

 does a great deal to kill tlio worms in the apples. Worms are not always 

 harmful to all apples: in fact, I like worms in my early apples. 

 1 don't like those big fellows, but the little fellows that ripen up the 

 apples before their time. You can pick them up and sell them a month 

 earlier than usual. I have had a good many of the Red Stripe and Maiden 

 Blush marketed at better prices than if they had stayed on the tree 

 longer, due to that little worm that ripened them up. I am much obliged 

 to that little worm for doing this. 



President Stevens: We will now take a recess till 1:30. 



WEDNESDAY, 1:30 P. M. 



President Stevens called the meeting to order and resumed the pro- 

 gram. 



President Stevens: This afternoon's program is largely by the ladies, 

 and we are pleased to see them well represented here. We will begin at 

 once. The general head this afternoon is "Ornamenting the Home," and 

 is given under several subheads. The first is "The Yard and Lawn," by 

 Mrs. Stevens. 



ORNAMENTING THE HOME— YARD AND LAWN. 



BY MRS. W. W. STEVENS, SALEM. 



This subject is of as much or more importance as any of those to be 

 discussed tliis session. As none of us "live for ourselves alone," it be- 

 comes our duty to make the surroundings of our home just as beautiful 

 to those outside of it as it is to those within its gates. An ugly, unsightly 

 dooryard or lawn is a blot on the fair face of nature and those who allow 

 either to exist are defi'auding themselves, their neighl)ors and every 

 passerby of that beauty tliat we now begin to consider as essential as 

 are the essentials themselves. Such ones are not much less to be endured 

 than those who beautify their home grounds and shut it in from the world 

 by high fences or hedges and barred gates. 



The treatment of yards and lawns is quite or shoidd be quite different. 

 The word lawn suggests an expanse of green leading from the house 

 front to the street ot highway, while yard seems to mean a much smaller 



