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Arbor and Bird Day Bulletin 



Directly on the subject of Bird Day celebration, is Charles A. 

 Babcock's "Bird Day." How to prepare for it. Price $1.00. 



Another excellent help, is Alice E. Ball's "A Year With The 

 Birds." A book in verse adapted to the celebration of Bird Day. 56 

 colored plates. Price $3.00. 



These books may be ordered through the National Audubon So- 

 ciety, 1974 Broadway, New York. 



CHART OF DIMENSIONS FOR BIRD HOUSES 



(Arranged by C. B. Gwynn, instructor of manual training in the 

 Olympia High school) 



(Note Dimensions given below in inches) 



TREES IN WASHINGTON; TRANSPLANTING OF TREES; CARE 



AND CULTIVATION 



(From a bulletin compiled by W. S. Thornber, horticulturist, and issued 

 by the State Agricultural Experiment Station at Pullman, Wash.) 



During the past fifteen years the State Experiment Station has 

 tested a large number of shade, forest and ornamental trees on the 

 college campus and in the state forest plats. As a result of these 

 investigations much valuable information relative to the behavior of 

 these trees has been compiled. These results entirely disprove the 

 theories and advice of many early settlers who feel that it is usless to 

 plant trees, as they will die anyway, or if you do plant, there is nothing 

 better to plant than the Lombardy Poplar or Box Elder. The Lom- 

 bardy Poplar and Box Elder, as the early missionaries of introduced 

 tree life, have served their purpose well and now should give way to 

 the more permanent and valuable trees. More than one hundred trees 

 have proven themselves valuable for our conditions here in this state. 



The transplanting of trees is always accompanied by greater or 

 less danger of loss, or, at least, backset. This is caused by the loss 

 of feeding roots, the drying of the bark of the roots thus making 



