ARBOR DAY. 15 



ARBOR DAY ISSUE OF THE "PRAIRIE 

 FARMER." 



April 7, 1888, the Prairie Farmer, Chicago, 111., then 

 under the management of the veteran agricultural editor, 

 ORANGE JUDD, issued the number of that date devoted 

 exclusively to "Arbor Day." From it the following 

 excerpts are made. The editor introduced the subject 

 by saying: 



" Our readers are to be congratulated on having in this 

 week's issue so vast an amount of highly useful, practical, 

 and timely information, which has been gathered with 

 much labor and correspondence, and will be found through 

 the entire paper. This information, furnished by many 

 able contributors, is not only of special value in this tree 

 planting season, but will be useful at all seasons. Indeed, 

 in comprehensiveness and completeness, this number is 

 equivalent to a volume on the subject. It is designed 

 more especially for the states in the broad Mississippi 

 valley, from Ohio and Michigan to the Rocky mountains 

 regions where treeless prairies and plums abounded 

 when the country was but recently settled, but which are 

 already beginning to be dotted over with useful and beau- 

 tiful trees, whose cooling shade is so grateful to man and 

 beast in the sunshine months, and whose protection is so 

 important when zero winds and blizzards come rushing 



