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by traffic become grass-grown like rural lanes, and are obliterated; forests 

 decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal. Beleaguered 

 by the sullen hosts of winter, it withdraws into the impregnable fortress 

 of its subterranean vitality and emerges upon solicitation of spring. Sown 

 by the winds, by wandering birds, propagated by the subtle horticulture of 

 the elements, which are its ministers and servants, it softens the rude out- 

 line of the world. Its tenacious fibers hold the earth in its place, and 

 prevent its soluble components from washing into the sea. It invades the 

 solitudo of deserts, climbs the inaccessible slopes and forbidding pinnacles 

 of mountains, modifies climates and determines the history, character and 

 destiny of nations. Unobtrusive and patient, it has immortal vigor and ag- 

 gression. Banished from the thoroughfare and field, it bides its time to 

 return, and when vigilance is relaxed, or the dynasty has perished, it 

 silently resumes the throne from which it has been expelled which it never 

 abdicates. It bears no blazonry of bloom to charm the senses with fragrance 

 or splendor, but its homely hue is more enchanting than the lily or the rose. 

 It yields no fruit in earth or air, and yet should its harvest fail for a 

 single year famine would depopulate the world." (John J. Ingalls) 



Biographical note ; John James Ingalls was born in Middleton, Massachusetts, 

 December 29, 1833 and died in Las Vegas, Hew Mexico, August 16, 1900; was 

 graduated from \7illiams College in 1855; moved to Kansas in 1858 and estab- 

 lished a law practice; held various territorial and state offices, and served 

 as United States Senator 1873-1891; and from 1891 until his death was a 

 prominent v/riter and lecturer. Senator Ingalls was knovm as one of the 

 Senate's most eloquent members. His statue is in the rotunda of the Capitol. 

 He had an opportunity to see grass at its best on the virgin prairies of the 

 West. 



— A. B» Beaumont 



A MADE- TO-ORDER SCAB INFECTION PERIOD . The rainfall record in Ajnherst for 

 the week of June 19 is as follows » June 19 - 64"; June 20 - 1.12"; June 21 - 

 .19'!; June 22 - .OS'i June 24 - 1.84'!; Total - 3.64". Here we have almost as 

 much rainfall over a six day period as we normally get in a whole month, 

 and with uncounted hours of wet foliage it is easy to imagine the amount 

 of scab infection which probably occurred in unsprayed Mcintosh trees. 



WHAT A BEE EATS . Bees need about 12 times their ovm weight in food in a 

 year, just as humans do. For example, a man in the army, weighing 150 to 175 

 pounds, eats about a ton of food in a year. A ten-pound colony of bees needs 

 60 pounds of honey and four or five combs of pollen stored in the hive to 

 carry it through the winter, (from The Furrow) 



SPLIT FERTILIZER APPLICATIONS . That this is not a new idea is shown by the 

 following quotation from Jethro Tull, written in 1731i "There's no doubt 

 but that one- third part of the nourishment raised by dung and tillage given 

 to plants or corn at many proper seasons and apportioned to the different 

 times of their exigencies will be of more benefit to the crop than the whole 

 apply'd as it commonly is only at the time of sowing." 



