THE "ILLINOIS WAY" OF BEAUTIFYING THE FARM 



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63. A Children's Garden That Is Practical on Illinois Farms 



Why not start your boy in business with a dollar's worth of gladiolus bulbs? He can 

 sell the flowers without harming the bulbs. Seep. 17, paragraph on "Children's Gardens." 



children who are not so fortunate may get (at the cost of a 

 postal card) full directions for growing flowers, by writing to 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture for Farmers' Bulletin 195. 

 Won't you help your children start a flower-garden that will 

 make for independence, profit, and love of country? Help them 

 make a sign that will make people stop and buy; e.g., 



CUT-FLOWERS FOR SALE CHEAP 

 RAISED BY ILLINOIS CHILDREN 



5 Cents a Handful 

 25 Cents a Basketful 

 50 Cents an Armful 



4. Bird-Gardens for Illinois Farmers 



Restore the song birds to Illinois farms! Experts estimate 

 that certain birds save American farmers $400,000,000 a year, 



64. What the Children's Garden May Lead To 



A seventy-acre gladiolus farm like Cowee's, or a ten-acre peony farm, like Farr's. It 

 may change natre'd of the country into love of farming. 



because they keep down insects that will damage the crops. 

 Everyone can bring the birds into his daily life by planting 

 shrubbery at the edge of his lawn. You can make more money 

 by planting a mulberry hedge around your cherry orchard 

 than you can by shooting robins, for the birds will leave cher- 

 ries to eat mulberries. Dwarf juneberries will do the same 

 trick. You make only 5 per cent from your woodlot now; you 

 can double this if you will put up some of the new scientific 

 bird-houses which attract woodpeckers, the greatest enemies 

 of wood-destroying insects, and therefore the greatest friends 

 of the forest. You can have squabs to eat if you will let the 

 children raise pigeons, and these pigeons can be housed-m such 

 a way as to beautify your barn instead of making a mess of 

 it. In these and other ways birds are profitable, to say noth- 

 ing of their song, color, and beauty. 



A new kind of bird-garden that is full of western character 

 has been designed by Jens Jensen for Mrs. Julius Rosenwald 

 and Mrs. Albert H. Loeb. (See Figs. 65 and 109.) Although 

 in Chicago, the Loeb garden attracts martins, wrens, and 



65. The Rosenwald Bird-Garden in Chicago 



Every handy farm boy can make a martin house like this, with a cat-guard below. The creeper in Fig. 66 can be 

 had for nothing in southern Illinois or from any nurseryman for twenty-five cents. 



66. Every Woman Can Have a Bird-Garden 



Plant trumpet creeper and the humming-birds will come 

 close to you while you sit on the porch and sew. 



