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over the land, or when they worked more in accord with nature herself, 
a few grassy mounds. But how different with the work done by the bees! 
What was done ages ago by them is still seen in the color of some flower 
or other. They, indeed, seem to permanently change the face of the earth, 
and nature, in turn, seems to preserve their work, while man’s she quickly 
obliterates. 
THATCHING FOR SUN SCALD. 
PROF. S. B. GREEN, MINN. STATE EXP. STATION. 
It is a mean fellow that will wish other people trouble simply 
because he has trouble himself. But nevertheless most of us are so 
constituted that we like to know something of the trials of other 
people; and if we find that they have the same trials that we 
have and are bearing them well it makes ours easier to bear. Now, 
while I did not rejoice to find that in many parts of Germany they 
are very much troubled with sun scald, yet there was much inter- 
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est to me in noting the ways in which they attempt to overcome it. 
The accompanying illustration is from a photograph that I made in 
the forest garden of the Forest Academy, at Geissen, Germany, 
showing the way in which they protect the bare trunks of spruce 
trees from sun scald by tying on small boughs—a sort of thatch, as 
it were, on the south sides of the trees. 
