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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Trees and Plants 

 Alive with Vitality, 

 Color and Beauty 



Grown in the richest soil in the 

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 nursery stocks of B. F. Barr & Com- 

 pany are the favored of lovers of fine 

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Ideal soil and climatic conditions ; 

 the utmost care and patience; thirty 

 years experience in tree and plant 

 culture these are the tools with 

 which B. F. Barr & Company work. 



When you buy B. F. Barr & Com- 

 pany trees and shrubs you not only 

 get shapeliness and balance, dignity 

 and poise, color and beauty, but also 

 a rare vitality and sturdiness. 



In addition, there is a Landscape 

 Architectural Division at your dis- 

 posal. Its corps of experts is skilled 

 in the designing of original and ex- 

 pressive landscapes. Consult it now 

 regarding your 1922 plantings. Its 

 service is free. 



Send for tbe new B. F. Ban & Company 

 catalog. 



B. F. Barr & Company 



KEYSTONE NURSERIES 

 125 Barr Building - Lancaster, Pa. 



TREE AND SHRUB SEEDS 



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OTTO KATZENSTEIN & CO. 



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ATLANTA, GEORGIA 



Established 1897 



Orchids 



We are specialists in 

 Orchids: we collect, im- 

 port, (TOW, sell and export this class X>i plants 

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Our illustrated and descriptive catalogue of 

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 sial list of freshljr imported unestabMshed 

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LAGER & HURRELL 



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Large collection of Evergreen, Tree, Shrub 

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CONYERS B. FLEU, Jr. 

 GERMAHTOWN PHILADBLPBIA 



THE MOONLIGHT TRAIL 

 By David L. Goodwillie. 



The moonlight trail, oh, that the trail of 

 dreams : 



The sunlit trail for labor, but the night- 

 To follow stars, to bathe in silver beams. 



Forgetting fact in visions to delight. 

 Day is too truthful, shows us life too well, 



But night is shadowed vales and quiet 

 trees; 

 Day has no secret that it will not tell, 



But night is wonderment and mysteries. 



The moonlight trail, oh, that the trail of 

 rest. 



The fairy trail unhurriedly we go 

 And take the cherished dream fmm out 

 our breast 



And, by moon magic, think that it is so, 

 For there is nothing then that cannot be. 



And not a hurt we ever really knew ; 

 Yea, in that hour it seems to you and me 



That day's a lie and only night is true. 



The moonlight trail, oh, that the vision fair 

 Of that dear night to follow life's hard 

 day. 

 When men shall know no more the curse 

 of care 

 And walk at last some sweet imagined 

 way. 

 So, if you doubt, and if your faith shall 

 fail. 

 If day's bright sun can never make you 

 smile, 

 Get out and walk upon the moonlight trail 

 And have your visions for a little while. 



FARMERS AND FORESTS 



"The importance of the relationship be- 

 tween the nation's forestry problems and 

 the farmer was well brought out by Pres- 

 ident Harding at the opening of the farm 

 conference," said Dr. Henry S. Drinker, 

 a director of the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation, who was in Washington at the 

 time the National Agricultural Conference 

 was held. 



"The President realize? that the growing 

 of forests is a crop-producing proposition, 

 and we should have forest crops coming 

 along every year, just as we have wheat 

 and corn. 



"The great work that has been done by 

 he United States Forest Service along 

 this line can not be overestimated at this 

 time. That work must continue. We of 

 the American Forestry Association are cel- 

 ebrating the fortieth year of a forestry 

 organization at our meeting here. The 

 first organization was in 1882. With such 

 encouragement as this from the President 

 of the United States in his talk to the farm 

 conference, we feel sure that much more 

 will be done for the preservation and pro- 

 tection of our forests in the next forty 

 years than has been done in the past." 



HARDING AND FORESTRY 



President Harding opened the National 

 Agricultural Conference by directing the 

 attention of the farmer to the importance 

 of forestry. Fifty years ago trees were 

 more bother than they were worth, but 

 today a man with a walnut grove has a 

 fortune, so scarce has become this kind 

 of timber. In the early days every farmer 

 had a wood-lot but now they are few and 

 far between. 



Today the center of the lumber industry 

 is nearing the Pacific Coast. The state of 

 New York, which once exported lumber, 

 now pays $53,000,000 a year for imported 

 lumber. The moving of the base of supply 

 increasing distances from the market nat- 

 urally raises the cost to the consumer. The 

 average farmer spends about $1,000 a year 

 in improvements on his place, but instead 

 of going out to his wood-lot for his lumber 

 he goes to town. He also goes to town for 

 his fuel these days. 



The President, in calling the attention of 

 the farmer and the country to the need of 

 utilizing our waste lands for growing trees, 

 is co-operating with those who are now ad- 

 vocating such legislation before Congress. 

 Legislation that will give better protection 

 to the forests so that nature may have a 

 fair opportunity to do the necessary refor- 

 esting would be a splendid move and the 

 President's message has broken the trail. 



FINLAND'S FORESTS 



TN an effort to provide American lumber 

 interests with complete and reliable 

 information concerning the lumber mar- 

 kets and resources of the world, the Bu- 

 reau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce 

 has just added another exclusive lumber 

 report to its rapidly expanding list of 

 special studies on that industry and trade. 



The latest report which covers Finland 

 an important country from a competi- 

 tive standpoint is considered the most 

 comprehensive study of lumber conditions 

 in that country which has yet been pub- 

 lished. Formerly, Finnish lumber ex- 

 porters were content with the markets 

 of Europe. Now, however, they are mak- 

 ing energetic efforts to expand to other 

 countries, and it is likely that American 

 lumbermen and exporters will feel the 

 force of this awakened interest. 



The report says that Finland has the 

 largest percentage of forest area of any 

 country of Europe, estimating its future 

 exportable surplus at about 2,000,000,000 

 feet annually. It contains much informa- 

 tion which should be of interest to Amer- 

 ican lumbermen and exporters. Among 

 other subjects it discusses Finland's for- 

 e.'^ts, lumber manufacture, cost of produc- 

 tion, export trade, prices, character of tim- 

 ber, markets, shipping, etc. The activ- 

 ities of the Finnish Exporters' Associa- 

 tion should be of particular interest to 

 American shippers. 



