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3. Don't start him in v;ith too long hours. 



4. Don't forget to praise the boy for v/ork well done. 



5. Don't forget that a boy gets hungry between meals and after supper. 



6. Don't forget that a boy is young and may get lonely. 



7.. Don't forget that you v/ere once young and that someone xvas patient and 

 tolerant vdth you. 



8. Don't use harsh criticism, caustic remarks or profanity, 



9. Don't lose your temper. 



10. Don't forget that boys are boys and like to get a lot of fun out of life. 



"Be Patient Yfith the Boys" (Elbert Hubbard) 



"Yesterday I rode horseback past a field where a boy 

 was plowing. The lad's hair stuck out through the 

 top of his hat; his form was bony and avikward; one 

 suspender held his trousers in place; his bare lege 

 and arms were brown and sunburned and briar-soarred. 



"He swung his horses around just as I passed by, and 

 from under the flapping brim of his hat, he cast a 

 quick glance out of the dark, half bashful eyes and 

 modestly returned my salute. His back turned, I took 

 off my hat and sent a God-bless-you down the furrov/ 

 after him. 



"?rno knows? -- I may go to that boy to borrow money, or 

 to hear him preach, or to beg him to defend me in a 

 lawsuit; or he may stand with pulse unhastened, bare 

 of arm, in white apron, ready to do his duty, while 

 the cone is placed over my face, and Night and Death 

 come creeping into my veins. 



"Be patient with the boys — you are dealing with soul 

 stuff. Destiny awaits just around the corner. Bo 

 patient with the boys." 



Roy E. Mosa 



Magnesi um Deficiency in A pple Orc hards 



In September, 1939, medi\;im to severe leaf scorch was observed on in- 

 dividual Mcintosh trees in two of our experimental apple orchards at Amherst. 

 These trees also wore beset with excessive pre-harvest drop. The writer at 

 first assumed that the trouble was potassium (k) deficiency despite the fact 

 that in one block the K-fortiliaed plots were most affected. Tissue tests 

 revealed a high K condition, howev«r, which eliminated this element as a cause 

 of the trouble. In the other orchard, trees on on*:- particular root stock showed 

 the most leaf scorch. This stock (Mailing l) had been shown to be highly sus- 

 ceptible to magnesium (Mg) shortage in England. 



Similar scorching and early leaf -fall were apparent in late August 

 and September, 1941, in a young experimental orchard set in 1939. These trees 

 have been mulched and fertilized with nitrogen (N). In 1941, II and K were 



