HOUSE AND GARDEN 
6 o 
April. 1912 
UNCLE SAM SPEAKS ANOTHER GOOD WORD FOR 
" THE 
WOOD 
ETERNAL” 
CYPRESS 
“ THE 
WOOD 
ETERNAL” 
Dept, of Agriculture, Forest Service, Bulletin 95 , Page 44 , issued June 30 , 1911 , says of Cypress: 
‘‘’The properties which fit it for 
such wide use are the freedom 
of the wood from knots and 
other defects . . and the long 
period which the wood may he 
expected to last. To this might 
be added handsome appearance, 
which frequently has much to 
do with popularizing a wood.” 
Further on CYPRESS, the same Government 
Report says: “The wood contains little resin and 
thus affords a good surface for paint, which it holds 
well. . . . It is a popular wood where it is sub¬ 
jected to dampness and heat. It shrinks, swells 
or warps but little. . . For the parts of houses 
exposed to the weather it serves equally well.” 
Both quotations above are from Bulletin 95, (page 44) U.S. Dept, of Agr. (Forest .Service), June30,1911. 
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consequently they had to buy several 
bushels more of seed to plant the area 
they had figured on. They had to plant 
by hand, as the only machine planter in 
the neighborhood "was engaged for days 
ahead. They had, however, at Raffles’ 
instigation, invested in a covering attach¬ 
ment with the cultivator they had bought; 
and as everybody, women folks and all, 
turned out to help drop the seed, leaving 
Mr. ]\Iantell and Raffles free to furrow 
out, sow the fertilizer, run through the 
rows to mix it with the soil and then cover 
after the droppers, the work progressed 
rapidly, for “many hands make light 
work’’ — when they are all interested in 
the job. 
Another result of their trip to the sta¬ 
tion was that, while the Squire had plant¬ 
ed potatoes before they did, their corn was 
in fully a week before his. and the earliest 
of any in the neighborhood. Also it was 
put in deep — “so deep,” said the Squire, 
“that it will never come upand on some 
of the Squire’s low, heavy land it probably 
never would have. On Mantell’s light, 
sandy loam, however, it did, and because 
he had tested his seed, and knew just how 
thick to plant it, he got almost a perfect 
stand, even with the high priced new sort 
that had tested only sixty-nine per cent, in 
his trial. 
If Mantell's new-fangled ways of plant¬ 
ing — he had, for instance, spread all his 
corn fertilizer over the ground and har¬ 
rowed it in, instead of putting it in the 
hills — amused the Squire and his neigh¬ 
bors, they were still more amused at the 
way he started in to cultivate them. His 
fields of corn and of potatoes were not 
large, and the potato field was gone over 
three times and the corn field twice before 
there was a plant above ground in either. 
For this purpose they used a heavy 
“brush” made of straight young birch 
trees. At the Experiment Station they 
had seen a new steel harrow, with spike 
teeth, adjustable by levers, and with a 
spring tension for each row of teeth. 
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improvement over the harrows he had 
seen around Priestly Junction, but as the 
treasury would not stand the strain of 
getting one now, he decided to get along' 
without any at all that season, instead of 
buying a cheaper one. He made it a 
fixed policy, when buying any machinery 
for the farm, to get the very best, and 
then take the very best care of it. Not 
infrequently, in his drives around the 
country, he had seen plows and cultiva¬ 
tors that had been left in the field where 
their owners last used them, and even a 
mowing machine stored under a tree— 
and by men who had a nation-wide repu¬ 
tation for being thrifty! 
The reclaimed quarter acre was at last 
ready to plow. They had spent hours of 
drudging toil on it — many more thair 
Mantell had anticipated putting into it 
when he and Raffles staked it out. Jere¬ 
miah had promised to plow it for them, 
and finally turned up; but after working 
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