298 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



cur, or when the frost is comhig out of the ground. Placing more gravel 

 upon it is mere foolishness. If small towns or the owners of country 

 homes will get this into their minds, and instead of a fruitless struggle 

 against the laws of nature and gravel, will build sidewalks or pathways 

 of stone screenings, with a good foundation underneath, they will save 

 themselves much expense, laljor, muddy feet, discontent, profanity and 

 ill feeling. This is about all there is to do to screening walks, except 

 rolling, of which too much can not be done." 



Mr. Powers might, with propriety, have added that gi'ass or Aveeds 

 will not gi'ow in walks made in this v/ay, thus avoiding much hard labor 

 and expense in an effort to eradicate weeds and grass. 



The excavation for a walk should be about four inches in depth. This 

 should be tilled with the screenings, a little rounded up in the middle. 

 The cost of a walk thus coustriicted is about four cAits per square foot. 



In regard to the plan: If the walk is a short one, I would have it 

 straight. If of considerable length, I would have a gentle curve or curves, 

 so that it might appear that there is a necessity for such a curve to 

 avoid a tree or shrub on the concave side of it. 



ORNAMENTING THE HOME— CARE AND KEEPING OF YARD AND 



LAWN. 



BY LIZZIE C. ROYER. 



There seems to be manifested a wider movement for public beauty, 

 and the piomotion of this outdoor art ought and shoiild interest every 

 man, woman and child. 



If we would have beautiful yards and lawns, we must learn that out- 

 door art means not only a knowledge of landscape gardening, but a 

 knowledge of two other great arts, namely, architecture and sculpture, 

 and the beauty resulting when these three are brought to bear one with 

 the other. It must be remembered the beautifying of the home grounds 

 is not the work of a season or year, but a slow process. Yet if we take 

 pleasure in it, and have some taste, it will be a delight and pleasure from 

 year to year to see new beauties unfold as the rose. You have, perhaps. 

 experienced the pleasure of watching a tree, plant or vine develop that 

 j'ou have planted with your own hands. It is the same with the care of 

 the yard or lawn. We work along day after day, but each day brings 

 something new to care for; but there is a charm in the work that is im- 

 possible to describe. It is a good plan to have no definite rules to gov- 

 ern us, as conditions always differ, but a few suggestions along this line 

 may be welcomed by the amateur. 



