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flowers, shrubs, and trees would be a fitting climax to 

 the whole work. 



Free Bulletins, U. S. Department of Agriculture 



Farmers' Bulletins 



No. 134. Tree Planting on Rural School Grounds. 

 No. 185. Beautifying the Home Grounds. 



Extracts 

 No. 91. Lawns and Lawn Making. 



Problems 



1. Draw a plan of the home grounds on the farm 

 as shown in Lesson I, design the planting octrees, 

 shrubs, and hedges, and estimate the cost of such plants 

 as listed in the Moon Co. catalogue, Morrisville, Pa. 

 Keep a record of the cost. 



2. Estimate the cost of planting the school yard as 

 you have designed it in the exercise above. 



LESSON LXXII 



FARM FORESTRY 



This month we shall plow up an acre of our old farm 

 wood lot, where the trees have all been cut away, and 

 plant it in catalpa trees. The practical exercises given 

 at the end of the lesson's discussion will explain the 

 method of planting. 



Importance of forests. No other resource of the 

 earth, except the soil, is of more importance to man 

 than the forests. The fact is there would hardly be 

 any soil at all if it had not been for the forests. The 

 forests are our chief source of building material and 

 fuel. They protect and hold the soil and water of the 



