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THE "ILLINOIS WAY" OF BEAUTIFYING THE FARM 



fied approach; high bush cranberry for red berries against the 

 snow all winter; Virginia creeper for the porch; sumach to 

 screen an outbuilding; the old tree in the field to leave for the 

 children; elders for your bird-garden; a tulip tree to make a 

 background for the house; red cedars for windbreaks; Illinois 

 rose for your Illinois border, and high bush cranberry to repeat 

 the prairie lines and make the "religion of the prairie" a joy. 



WHAT YOU CAN GET FOR TEN DOLLARS 



For $10 you can accomplish any one of the following things: 

 You can buy fifty white pines and fifty hemlocks a foot high, 

 which will some day shelter house and barn from the wind and 

 screen the outbuildings. 



You can buy four elms, 8 to 10 feet high, to frame the view 

 of your house, front and back, and a pair of hawthorns, 5 or 6 

 feet high, to frame the view of the prairie from your porch. 



You can get twenty Japanese barberries 2 feet high, to plant 

 against the foundations of your house, or twelve vines, all 

 different, to give your house character and year-round interest, 

 and twenty-four more to transform the outbuildings from 

 ugliness to beauty. 



You can plant enough mulberry hedge to save your fruit 

 from troublesome birds and encourage desirable birds. 



You can start the children in the cut-flower business, with 

 ten different kinds of perennials, one for each week of vaca- 

 tion. Thus each week they will have ten clumps from which to 

 cut and sell flowers. You can have a bird-garden composed of 

 twenty to forty different kinds of shrubs with edible berries. 



You can have a winter garden composed of twenty-four 

 kinds of shrubs, with twigs that are attractive from October to 

 March. 



You can have an Illinois border, containing eight kinds of 

 shrubs, with a dozen of each kind in a group. 



You cannot make a big profit if you merely sit down with 

 a catalogue and order $10 worth of miscellaneous plants you 



happen to know and like, and then scatter them aimlessly 

 about. But it is wonderful what you can accomplish with $10 

 if you have any kind of a plan. 



Have you $10 worth of love for your home? If 10,000 of 

 us will spend $10 each this year, on planting, what a wonder- 

 ful improvement that $100,000 will make in the appearance of 

 Illinois! And how much your $10 will add to the happiness of 

 your family! Why not save $10 on luxuries, and invest it in 

 planting for home happiness? 



WHAT YOU CAN GET FOR THE PRICE OF A HOG 



For $17 to $22 you can have any two or three of the com- 

 binations just named. For example, you can plant evergreens 

 that will make a combination windbreak, screen, and winter- 

 garden. Or you can frame a lawn, make an Illinois border, 

 and attract friendly birds all with the same plants and in the 

 same part of your grounds. By close figuring, it is even possible 

 to accomplish all the objects here mentioned, except two; viz., 

 make a lawn and get a first-class plan for your home grounds. 

 We do not wish to discourage anyone by underestimating the 

 cost of gardening. It often costs a city man $100 to make a 

 lawn of one acre, for the seed alone costs $25, plowing and har- 

 rowing $7.50, subsoiling $5, sowing $i, manure $10, while the 

 grading and other expenses may bring the total to $100. The 

 farmer, however, need not make a cash outlay of more than 

 $25 for a lawn, or say the price of a hog. Sell a hog, and have 

 some beauty! 



WHAT YOU CAN GET FOR ONE HUNDRED 

 DOLLARS 



A good many farmers are now getting their places planned 1 

 and planted for $100, the price of five hogs. Can't you? Do 

 not go at this matter either in the spirit of show or of senti- 

 mentality, but consider this business proposition: Can't you 



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 96. Before Enlarging the Farmstead 



T ne .y. art ' was on 'y I0 .S * 12 f cet and was bounded by two straight rows of box elders, 

 nch hid all the good views and left all the ugly outbuildings in plain sight. Otherwise 

 the yard was bare no playground, no foundation planting, hardly a flower. The next 



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shows how George Curtiss, of Stockton, Jo Daviess Co., plans to improve the farmstead, 

 hig. 07 has been re-drawn and improved by Mr. L. E. Fogjesong, but it shows what a 

 student can do after attending a dozen lectures and six practical exercises. Many farmers 

 should do as well as this after studying this circular. 



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97. After Enlarging the Farmstead 



The yard is now 170 x igo feet, which is three-fourths of an acre an increase of r$o 

 per cent. He gets five good views by cutting out useless trees; nearly triples his lawn; 

 removes and groups in better places the utilities, e.g., small fruits, chickens, and smoke- 

 house; screens outbuildings and chicken-yard; cuts out the decaying fruit trees, while 

 saving the best; protects his house from winds by evergreens; gets room for a tennis-court; 

 plants the boundaries and foundations; makes a flower-garden visible from the parlor; 

 and adds a bird-garden all at a cost of $46.15, the price of two hogs. 



