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Digging holes stunts trees 

 blasting insures growth 



Blasting beds for trees with Atlas Farm Powder 

 overcomes every disadvantage that goes with 

 ordinary planting. It breaks up the soil to a 

 depth never reached by digging, frees the plant 

 food stored below, enables roots to grow in all 

 directions unhindered and provides better drain- 

 age and moisture storage. 



J. A. McLain, of Fredericktown, Pa. , provides 

 proof of what Atlas Farm Powder really does 

 toward injuring tree growth. 



"I planted 225 apple trees with Atlas Farm Powder and 

 20 apple trees with a spade. I lost only 1 out of the 

 225. but I lost 4 out of the 20 spade planted. The dif- 

 ference in growth made from April to October the same 

 year was 6 to 8 inches." 

 Our book, "Better Farming with Atlas Farm 

 Powder," has shown thousands of farmers how 

 to have better trees and fruit. It also tells how 

 to blast stumps, shoot ditches, break boulders, 

 etc. Write today and get a copy free. 



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 Division F. D. 6 Philadelphia, Penna. . 



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required exemplary patience. The trouble 

 about establishing a formal garden in 

 years past has been that you do not live 

 to see it. The next generation may enjoy 

 it; but with forms that take 40 or 50, even 

 in cases 80 years, to bring to maturity, it 

 is only the grandchildren who can hope to 

 witness their full perfection. 



In the Royal Kew nurseries are speci- 

 mens that have had 45 years' care and at- 

 tention. Cock pheasants, sitting hens, pea- 

 cocks with spread wings, dogs, geese and 

 ducks, all growing, thickly cumber the 

 ground. It must be a nightmare of a 

 place to stumble upon unexpectedly on a 

 moonlit night, with all these immobile 

 forms about. Holland for centuries has 

 assiduously cultivated this art but in 

 England it has experienced cycles of favor, 

 followed by neglect. 



Topiary has revived under conditions 

 which make it no longer necessary to 

 spend a lifetime in cultivating and prun- 

 ing a tree into forms that others may en- 

 joy. The science of horticulture has made 



great strides. By transplanting each three 

 or four years the main root is kept in check 

 and fibrous roots encouraged. The roots 

 thus form in a close cluster, and the en- 

 tire tree, having had from 15 to 40 years' 

 shaping in the nursery, may be transplant- 

 ed bodily to its permanent place in the 

 newly laid-out garden. Possibly some of 

 the extravagances of the topiarist's art are 

 best avoided, but simple pillars, or cones, 

 or spirals, or round clumps, spaced well 

 apart, give dignity to a terrace or lawn 

 which few other growths can equal. 



"I wish to let you know that I have 

 found American Forestry a most beauti- 

 ful and educational book of knowledge, 

 serving the people in many ways." 



John E. Sterloff. 



"I am very much interested in the maga- 

 zine and heartily in accord with the con- 

 servation of our timberlands, which the 

 American Forestry Association is so ably 

 advocating." 



G. H. Woodroffe. 



ACCEPT FOREIGN JOBS 

 HTHE United States Forest Products Labo- 

 ratory at Madison announces that two 

 of its experts in kiln drying have resigned 

 to accept positions in foreign countries. 

 Mr. C. V. Sweet and Mr. L. V. Teesdale, 

 who have been with the laboratory for 

 nearly two and a half years, will enter the 

 Forest Service of the Indian Government. 

 Mr. Sweet will have his headquarters at 

 Dehra Dun, India, in the foothills of the 

 Himalaya Mountains. Mr. Teesdale will 

 be located at Rangoon, Burma, which is 

 situated in the lowlands bordering the Sea 

 of Bengal. 



Both men will be engaged in the investi- 

 gation of commercial methods of seasoning 

 timber. Their work will differ only as 

 geographical conditions affect the charac- 

 ter and availability of the timber, and will 

 involve travel and exploration into all ac- 

 cessible parts of the provinces as well as 

 laboratory research at the institutions al- 

 ready established. 



India and Burma are heavily forested 

 with exceedingly valuable woods, which, 

 like all the other natural resources, are 

 the property of the Government. In the 

 art of silviculture and its development the 

 East leads the West, but in commercial 

 processes of utilization of the wood prod- 

 ucts the East has much to learn from 

 Western countries, especially America. The 

 availability of the wood products for com- 

 mercial use depends largely on proper 

 methods of kiln drying, and it is as techni- 

 cal experts in this subject that Mr. Sweet 

 and Mr. Teesdale enter the far Eastern 

 service. 



BAMBOO FOR PAPER PULP 



'"PHE scarcity of newsprint paper gives 

 special interest to the statement that 

 edible and timber bamboo are both adapted 

 to the climate of the Gulf States and are in 

 a position to aid materially in the produc- 

 tion of paper, poles for many purposes for 

 which growing timber is now cut and as 

 an excellent and nutritious vegetable food. 

 This statement is the gist of a report on 

 eight years of experimental work, con- 

 cluded by E. A. Mcllhenny on his plan- 

 tation at Avery Island, Louisiana, made 

 July first to the United States Bureau of 

 Plant Introduction. 



The difficulties which exist in trans- 

 forming tropical grasses, reeds and rushes 

 into paper are said not to apply to bamboo ; 

 and bamboo, unlike the great forests of the 

 temperate zone, grows rapidly so that the 

 supply of paper material would renew it- 

 self from season to season. Burma is one 

 of the tropical countries where bamboo is 

 very abundant and it has also necessary 

 facilities for transportation. 



Not only is the bamboo of rapid growth 

 and some species attain a great size, even 

 70 to 100 feet in height with trunks a foot 

 in diameter, but it is often found in arid 

 localities which would otherwise be desti- 

 tute of vegetation. 



