Notice From THE UNITED STATES 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The Department of Agriculture is 
getting ready to fill requests for the 
basket willow cuttings grown last year 
on its experimental farm at Arlington, 
Va. Distribution of these cuttings 
takes place early in March each spring, 
to farmers and others who wish to 
make trials of basket willow on lands 
too wet for other crops. From 50 to 
too cuttings are given each person. 
The distribution is not a mere giving 
giving away of Government material 
to persons who desire to get something 
free; because it is required that each 
recipient of cuttings shall make a re- 
port of the treatment given and the re- 
sults obtained. Several select varie- 
ties are included in each set that is dis- 
tributed, and the aim is to secure in- 
formation as to the best variety for 
each locality, since no kind can be re- 
lied upon to yield maximum results 
over a wide range of territory. 
In the basket willow investigations 
carried on at the Arlington Farm, Ar- 
lington, Va., and at Ames, lowa, by 
the Forest Service, particular atten- 
tion has been given to the development 
of American species for basket making 
purposes. The European species now 
commonly used have never proved 
themselves entirely adapted to Ameri- 
can conditions and are as a rule less 
thrifty than the native species. At 
present there is at Arlington a willow 
garden containing nearly 500 lots 
_ gathered from all parts of the coun- 
try and representing practically every 
species and variety found in the 
United States and Canada. 
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been carried on for several years is al- 
ready indicating which strains show 
_ the best basket willow characteristics 
for American conditions. 
He KNEw 
It was the opening of the winter 
session and the teacher was making 
up her list of pupils. 
' “Well, my boy,” said she to one 
youth, “what is your name?” 
=O “Tom,” ma’am” said. the 
- promptly. 
“hat does not sound well,” she 
_ said; “you should always give the 
full name. You should have said, 
‘Thomas.’ And what is your name?” 
she asked, turning to the second boy. 
Flushed with the consciousness of 
having learned something new the 
young man arose and said proudly: 
“My name is Jackas.”—Ladies’ Home 
Journal. 
boy 
_ Ever notice how eager one doctor is 
not to boast of the ability of another? 
A system of selection which has: 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
The Political Pot 
Only a few new candidates for any 
of the offices have appeared this week. 
No change is made in the list running 
for selectmen. ‘The old board,—E. S. 
Knight, Horace Stanley and F. G. 
Cheever—have two men out against 
them,—Nathan P. Meldrum and 
George R. Dean. It looks pretty easy 
for the two new men, and from the 
sentiment expressed on all sides the 
only chace for any member of the old 
board to win out again this year is 
given to Frank G. Cheever. It looks 
very much as though next year’s board 
would be made up of N. P. Meldrum, 
George R. Dean and Frank G. 
Cheever. 
For assessor Frank G. Cheever, the 
member whose term expires this year, 
is a candidate for re-election, and he 
has running against him Mr. Meldrum, 
Albert Harraden, and M. E. Gorman. 
George FE. Hildreth has running 
against him for the water board John 
F. Scott, the Beach street plumber. 
Both have many friends who are 
working in their interests. 
Albert Cunningham is the only man 
after the School Committee job. His 
term expires this year. 
aces 
The Burying Ground lot still be- 
longs to the town. 
It isn’t half as far from virtue to 
vice as it is from vice to virtue. 
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Frioop THE Fats 
Editor, North Shore Breeze: 
Dear Sir: The time for the An- 
nual Town meeting is drawing near, 
a time when all who have the best 
interests of the town at heart should 
put on their thinking caps and see 
what can be done to make this beauti- 
ful town by-the-sea more popular as 
a summer resort than it is today. As 
a resident of more than fifty years 
I wish to say that I do not leave or 
enter the town by rail that I do not 
earnestly wish that the matter of per- 
mently flooding our flats could be has- 
tened. How much it would enhance 
the beauty and utility of our new park, 
now well under way! Let us bury 
whatever petty jealousies exist. 
We need our summer visitors, they 
also need us. It is mutual. If we 
knew them and they knew us, as each 
one knows his own self, we could 
quickly get together, giving an impetus 
to the town, such as it has never 
known before. 
The continuous covering of the 
flats would make Manchester a more 
formidable rival of Newport than 
ever. 
Isn’t it possible to do something 
noticeable in this line this year? 
A- RESIDENT. 
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