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BRINGING TREES AND SHRUBS y INTO FLOWER DURING WINTER Purpose of Method Is to Imitate Natural Process In Mid Winter ot Which Time Fresh Growth Will Have Special Value Secure Boughs During Very Severe Weather. 3 .... . wt:: j " iV ' "V Showing Buds To the gardener, the cold months of the year must always mean a cessa tion In the active work of plant cul ture. Any scheme which will enable the enthusiast to pursue his pastime during the winter is sure of a wel come. The new method of bringing the branches of trees and of shrubs into flower at this time, is one which promises to make a valuable addition to the resources of the indoor gar dener. Its very simplicity must ap peal to everyone, while the decorative possibilities of the system cannot fail to attract all flower admirers. In order to understand the purpose of the treatment the consideration of a-few natural science points may not .be out of place. It Is well known to botanists that all deciduous trees and shrubs bring their next season's growth to a very advanced stage dur ing the fall. Indeed, all leaves and flowers are quite ready for the spring folded up on a very small scale be neath the protecting bud cases. Now the resumption of growth, when it docs take place, is largely due to the fact that the plant starts to draw wa ter from the soil and the fluid rising to the buds swell out the undeveloped tissue and the tree comes into foliage Removing Bark. and blossom. The purpose of the present method is to initiate as near ly as possible this natural process in mid-winter at which time the fresh growth will have a special value. Nowadays when flowering trees and shrubs are so common in our gardens there will be no difficulty in finding subjects for treatment. All the orna mental plums, apples, cherries and currants, to mention only four kinds are perfectly adapted, whilst the wild species of these fruits which are to bo found in ethe hedge-rows may be made equally useful. Bright green foliage is always very acceptable and branches of trees with large buds, such as chestnuts and sycamores, may be included in the collection. The season of the year when the system may be most successfully prac ticed is during the months of January and February. Strange as it may eoeni, the buds always expand more readily if they have been subjected to a week or two of frost, so during a spell of severe weather is a good time to secure the boughs. It is, of course, a matter of importance to be able to select the boughs of the trees which -are well budded for blossom. Mostly the flower buds will be fatter than those producing only foliage. In cutting the branches from the trees it is a matter of some importance to make a clean severance, seeing thatorn or ragged fractures prevent a ffeXicvelopmcnt on tho part of the twigs. Tho most shapely branches should be selected and all along It should be borne in mind that the sprays are to be used in vases for decorative purposes.' In order to en able tho boughs to absorb , water as freely as possible it is a good plan to remove some of tho bark on tho lower portion of the stem. . This is best cut away with a sharp knife in alternate slices, as Is shown in the illustration. Now secure a number of large bowls Into which some hot not scalding water has been poured. Tie all the branches to be treated Into bundles nd place the ends of the boughs in the water, at once removing the whole thing to a dark cupboard. Thli emersion In hot water seems to have tho curious tonic effect of stirring the sleeping buds so. that when brought out into the light they will be able to commence active growth. Of course the method Is one Developed. often followed by florists when they with to revive drooping flowers. It is just as well to leave the branches in the dark cupboard for twenty-four hours, although naturally the water will have become cold long before this interval has elapsed, but this does not matter. It is a question for the individual to decide whether the boughs shall be grown to perfec tion in the vases or whether they fchall only be placed in the ornamental re ceptacles after they have fully devel oped. Some people do not And the leafless branches inartistic and these are, of course, soon adorned with ex panding buds which give a delightful "spring" feeling to the apartment. Which ever course is adopted the boughs should be placed at once in pure water which it is necessary should be kept in a fresh condition. To this end it is not a bad plan to place a lump of charcoal in each vase or bowl, or change the water every day. It is now desirable that the branches should be placed in a fully light position, if possible In front of a window where they will get all the sunshine. The speed of growth will be entire ly dependent upon the warmth of the room; if the temperature is high the buds will commence to swell very rap idly. Soon the expanding flowers and leaves will be plainly visible and at this stage dust is harmful to the young growth. If possible, the boughs should be protected when any sweeping is going on in the apartment, and in any case the shoots will be benefited if they are sprinkled occasionally with luke warm water. It should be pointed out in conclusion, however, that the direc tions emphasized in the foregoing lines should be followed if the best results are desired. WOODEN SHOE FOR THE PLOW Piece of Board 30 Inches Loos and 12 Inches Wide Pro tec tr. Sharp Eds From Stones. When farmers start to plow in tho spring or fall it is usually the custom to load tho plow or plows into tho wagon or on to a stone boat in order to take them to the field. Many people hitch their teams to the plow and drag them, writes J. O. Beat tie in the Wisconsin Agriculturist. This, however, is a bad mistake, be cause the plow edge is not only spoil ed by scratching tho occasional stones A Shoe for the Plow. that lay along tho road, but the whoio plow is Jarred as it swings from ono side to the other. To save the time of bothering with a stoneboat, or the exertion of lifting the plow on to a wagon each tlmo it has to be moved, we tako a board 30 Inches long and 12 Inches wide. This board la beveled out in the center so that when tho plow rests upon tho board lengthwise and is pulled for ward, the plowlay grips the board and holds it there in place. The under side of the front edge should Le round ed off with a draw shave. Japs Learn Sheep Industry. During the past two or three years Japan has sent some of Its expert stock growers to America to learn how to raise sheep and it Is under stood that sheep raising will be ex tensively engaged In over there. Apples From Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia sends away over 1,000 000 barrels of applet during the reason. The Photographer's Way "I've been looking at your framed photographs down In the reception room and I don't like any of tbem!" announced the girl in the evening gown, as she emerged from tho dress lug room Into the photographer's studio and posed herself gracefully on the Louis XIV. chair. "What's the matter with them?" asked the photographer. ! "Well," replied the girl, "I've ideas of my own you know I attend art school and we've studied portraiture. Now, there's a certain stiffness in all of those photographs downstairs " "Stiffness!" interrupted the photog rapher, brusquely. "Well, all I can say is that your art school needs a new teacher! Why, every one of those photographs that you criticise has won medals two of them in Paris!" "I can't help that," returned the girl, gently but firmly. "On the face of that 'Madonna end Child' that's marked 'First Prize' there's an ex tremely worried look you can see that the camera was held a second too long and the product Isn't easy and natural." "Well, but Madonnas are all sort of worried look at the great ones," protested the photographer, earnest ly. i The girl smiled amusedly, as she might have smiled at a small boy ex pressing his views on art. "But, don't you see, they're natural in those great pictures," she said. "The worry, if that's what you call it. Isn't because the Madonna's afraid her mouth will be stiff from holding the expression too long. Her eyes aren't stiff from being afraid of winking and blinking. Do you see what I mean?" She drap ed her train more gracefuly. "Well, we've got to hurry now," said the photographer, glancing at hi3 watch and looking meaningly at the closed doors of the various dressing rooms. "How do you want ' yours taken? I suppose you want to pose yourself?", , "Of course," responded the girl, coldly. She smoothed back her hair and smiled sweetly, bending a trifle forward. "There, I think this is a very good pose," she remarked, mod estly. "Urn-hum!" the operated smiled. "That'll be a peach. It'll give you a nice big head and bring the forehead out beautifully! It'll quite hide your smile with your nose, which will be large enough for any modest human being, and If I take it full length people will wonder whether one foot is really so much larger than the other or if It's just your shoe 3." She heard him snap the bulb It clicked loudly and so she knew that was over. "Now, another pose, please!" He was aggressively polite. The girl in the evening gown 'held herself frigidly. "I think I'll have one. now, sitting dreaming not any particular pose. I'll just put myself in the attitude and when my expres sion Is really that of a dreamer when I've sufficiently forgotten your presence and that of the camera you may snap me." The photographer drew up a chair with much commotion and settled himself in it. "Ail right, get set!" he ordered, wearily. The girl, for lack of a window, se lected a certain leafy fly to set her soul upon in meditation. Well," she exclaimed, after five si lent minutes had elapsed, 'why don't you snap me?" "I haven't seen that dreamy expres sion yet." The tone of the photog rapher was (aim. The girl opened her Hps to speak but closed them end took up her po sition again. "Snap me in two min utes! she ordered, tersely. She dreamed during what seemed to her several minutes without hear ing a sound from the camera. Her lips were dry and her eyes ached from being kept in one position. She closed her eyes a second for rest, wiping her lips with her tongue, when click! She knew the photo graph was taken. "Just, two minutes," exclaimed the photographer, energetically, as ho shut his watch. "Do do you think it will be good?" queried the girl, apprehensively. "I just know I blinked and that I had my tongue out in that last one!" "Well, you can't tell .about these artistic pictures," commented the photographer, sagely. "Hut I'll tell you what I'll do I'll take a few quick snaps, now, on my own hook. Just you sit and do what I tell you and I think ye'll manage to get a few good poses for you." When the door of the dressing room closed on tho girl in pink the photographer said to his assistant, who had come in to remove the plates: "I fooled her, all right can't afford to let these people run the studio. Why, every woman would be trying to pose herself and they would spoil plates by the score. She took some classy poses and when she was tired holding them I snapped the case of my watch shut -and told her how fierce the pictures would be. Of course, 111 tell her that they came out too dark to bo recognized, so she'll have to be satisfied with one of these poses that I made her take. "Now, send in the next one.' FLAX GROWING IS PROFITABLE WESTERN CANADA FARMERS BE COMING RICH IN ITS PRODUCTION. So much has been written regarding the creat amount of money mado out of growing wheat in the prairie prov inces of Manitoba. Saskatchewan and Alberta, Western Canada, that many other products of the farms are over looked. These provinces will always grow large areas of wheat both spring and winter and tho yields will continue to be large, and the general average greater than in any other portion of tho continent. Twenty, thir ty, forty, and as high as fifty bushels per aero of wheat to the acre yields unusual in other parts of the wheat growing portions of the continent have attracted world-wide attention, tut what of oats, which yield forty, fifty and as high as one hundred and ten bushels per acre and carry off the world's prize, which, by the way, wa3 also done by wheat raised in Sas katchewan during last November at the New York Land Show. And then, there is the barley, with its big yields, and its excellent samples. Another money-maker, and a big one is flax. The growing of flax is extensively car ried on in Western Canada. Tho writer has before him a circular is sued by a prominent farmer at Saska toon. The circular deals with the treatment of seed flax, the seeding and harvesting, and attributes yields of less than 20 bushels per acre, to later seeding, imperfect and illy-prepared seed. He sowed twenty-five pounds of Eeed per acre and had a yield of twenty-nine bushels per acre. This will probably dispose of at $2.50 per acre. Speaking of proper prepa ration of seed and cultivation of soil and opportune sowing, in the circular spoken of there is cited the case of a Mr. White, living fourteen miles south of Itosetown, "who had fifteen acres of summer fallow a year ago last summer, upon which he produced thirty-three bushels to the acre, when many in the district harvested for want of crop. Now, there can be no proper reason advanced why such a crop should not have been produced on all the lands of the same quality in the adjacent district, provided they had been worked and cared for in tho same manner. This year (1911) the same man had one hundred acres of summer fallow, had something over 3,800) bushels of wheat. He also had 1,800 bushels of oats and 300 bushels of flax." 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Land jaJuei donttlA In tan years' tlm. n erowlnp.inlaexl farm ttT) ratMliis: Mint dairy e all nrolitAlile. l'Tee raU ufieu ax: real are ad fit llie rxat district) 1 HO acre pa-e-em p- H.I.OO iterswee with A.OO Mr certain areas. foUoolaanu rhnrcbea lit- every aettj tnent. rllmale uiwxxveiled. soil the rlrlteati wood water sml batldluK material plentiful. . 88 'or partlcnlars as to location, low settlers' rallear rts and dsaerlptlva tllvatrated paanrj&lru "last Rest West." and etrer In formation, wrhe U 8oSf lan pal -f ration, Ottawa, Canada, cr M Canadian UoTsrameut agent, ft. ?. RcIoMt, 171 Jsfftma fo, Ostrtit; sr C. A. Lavtef, MaroMtia, Kkhlrti rieass wtI U to ths st-cnt ftsaraat fo i lr1rlU ...... rrlLatiou com( SSrtlt WATER XA&tX ivu.1 1 iuuarau.1 sunn auu, Xror. W. I, ttm HI Si? VY. N. U.t DETROIT, NO. 8-1912.