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A YEAR IN AGRICULTURE 



Boys and girls cooperate. If our boys and girls will help 

 to plant and care for trees and shrubs, they will learn to 

 respect and wi v sh to preserve them as useful and beautiful 

 public property. Here, with the young folks, is the proper 

 starting point for the conservation of our trees and the 

 beauty of the countryside, for it is they who will have to 

 "pay the piper" after we have had our dance. 



Making- a picture in the landscape. It is possible to make 

 such use of trees and shrubs that a beautiful picture of the 

 home grounds may be framed and enjoyed by the passers-by 

 from the public road; furthermore, it is desirable to place 

 the trees and shrubs about the home grounds so that attract- 

 ive views from the windows and doors of the house across 

 the landscape may be secured. In the making of the picture, 

 the orchards, forest trees, and windbreaks make excellent 

 backgrounds. Trees and shrubs massed at the border frame 

 the picture, and the open greensward in front of the house 

 makes an attractive foreground. All that is needed to com- 

 plete the picture in the landscape, in addition to the use of 

 nature's plant material, are the happy boys and girls of 

 the home living in the midst of it. 



Screening unsightly objects. There may be about the 

 home either on the owner's ground or on that of a neighbor 

 such unsightly objects as old barns, outbuildings, washed-out 

 banks, gaudy signboards, etc., and these may all be hidden 

 by the proper placing of trees and shrubs, or, if close at hand, 

 icovered by vines and made attractive. 



Tree butchery. In many rural villages one sees such utter 

 disregard for the beauty of the trees as is commonly known 



