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buildings and occupants of the farm, as well as live stock, from 

 wind and storms. 



The naked trees seen back of the evergreens in photograph 

 No. 1 are Norway poplar about ten years old. They also have 

 grown to be large trees and will soon be ready for the sawmill. 



Those trees are planted on various kinds of soil. Some on 



No. 2. Scotch pine, 



very heavy black soil where the ground is inclined to be wet. 

 Part on clay hillsides, others on a rolling piece of ground that 

 has a thin clay subsoil underlaid with a gravel bed, which shows 

 that these varieties will do well in most any kind of soil that is 

 not too wet. 



Wild Parsnip a Deadly Poison. — Wild parsnip is not the common 

 garden parsnip that has escaped from cultivation and grown wild. The 

 latter has a more yellowish flower and a tap root. What is commonly called 

 "wild parsnip" is the Wyoming water hemlock (Cicuta occidentalis) , which 

 greatly resembles the garden parsnip but has a whiter flower, the leaflets 

 finely toothed along the margin, and a cluster of roots. 



Every year we have reports of children being poisoned by eating the 

 roots of wild parsnip, and parents will do well to caution their children 

 against touching any wild plant that has an umbrella-shaped top that 

 looks like the garden parsnip. — Colorado Agricultural College. 



