SHADE TREEES ABOUT THE FARM HOUSE. 



in any money, but nevertheless it is an 

 appreciable addition to the value of the 

 farm which increases year by year. 

 Should the owner wish to sell or raise 

 money upon his property, the growing 

 wood — like the new barn or the sub-soil 

 drains — will be an asset to be considered 

 in fixing its value. Even should the 

 man who plants trees die before the 

 wood is matured, he will leave so much 

 more to his family. Men do not, to the 

 credit of human nature, cease all active 

 exertion as soon as they have secured 

 merely enough to maintain themsehes 

 in selfish indolence and comfort during 

 the remainder of their lives. They wish 

 to leave an ample provision behind them 

 for those dependent on them. 



The labor bestowed upon tree-plant- 

 ing is a ver) trifling contribution, towards 

 the welfare of future generations com- 

 pared with the sacrifice which many 

 men in every line of industry make with 

 an eye to the distant future and without 

 stopping to consider whether they per- 

 sonally will reap any of the benefit, or 

 whether it will merely increase the in- 

 heritance they leave to their children. 



But for the short sightedness which took 

 no note of probable future needs and 

 met all remonstrance with the answer 

 that posterity must look out for itself, 

 the farmers of Ontario would be in a 

 much better position. There is many a 

 farmer who twenty or thirty years ago 

 has shaken his head forebodingly over 

 his diminishing wood-lot and reflected 

 how advantageous it would be to have 

 a few more acres in timber, who, if he 

 had occupied an off-day occasionally in 

 transplanting saplings instead of consol- 

 ing himself with the reflection, " Well, 

 it'll last my time anyway" — would now 

 have a plentiful supply of fuel instead of 

 having to buy coal or travel half a dozen 

 miles to cut cordwood. It is time that 

 this slipshod hand-to-mouth manage- 

 ment which looks only at immediate 

 results was abandoned and that the les- 

 sons of experience [iroduced more ex- 

 tensive and decided results in inducing 

 the farmers as a class to take an active, 

 practical interest in tree culture as a 

 means of maintaining and restoring the 

 fertility of their lands as well as a source 

 of ultimate profit. 



Buy Fruit Instead of Candy. — " 1 

 wish,'' said a doctor the other day as he 

 watched a group of school children troop 

 out of a candy store, where they had 

 been spending their pennies, " that I 

 could form a society among little folks 

 in which each member w-ould take a 

 pledge to spend all his pocket money 

 for fruit instead of candy." It seemed 

 a funny way of putting it, didn't it ? 

 But the physician was very much in 

 earnest, and at the moment it probably 



occurred to him that, as children like 

 clubs, an anti-candy club would be a 

 very good one for them. He wanted to 

 to do two things — to stop their eating 

 the unhealthful sweet and to coax them 

 to eat more fruit. An apple or a bana- 

 na or an orange can usually, one or the 

 other of them, be bought for the price 

 of a little candy, and the fruit is much 

 better in every way than the sweet. — 

 New York Times. 



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