Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-10-18

| None of the Towering plants are cas-
Ter to propagate than the phlox. Simp-
ly take pieces of vigorous stalk con-
tanning dormant buds and put in moist
earth or sand In a short time the
rootlets will start and the new plant
will grow vigorously.
The railroads are not making a very
loud noise these days about their yards
and sidetracks being encountered with
empty freight cars. A bumper grain
crop Is being moved to market, and ev-
erything on wheels will have to be call
ed into service to handle it.
There has been considerable increase
lately in the cultivation of the ever
bearing strawberry. This variety. III
stead Of having a single fruiting sea-
son In June or therea bouts, begins to
bear at about that time. but continues
to produce succession Of blossoms
| from that time until frost
In Argentina the supply of beef ami
mails is steadied and regulated by a
law which prohibits the killing of the
females of the species before they have
reached q certain age. 1t is the kill
ing of heifer calves for veal-a prac-
tice followed extensively In this coun-
try-that is said to be in large measure
responsible for the present shortage in
beef animals.
There are a good many homesteads
where n days work might be done in
trimming up trees whose lower branch
rs sag and shut the sunshine from the
house. A little of this trimming work
should be done every year if possible.
Shade Is fine thing. but too much Of
1t is good deal worse than too much
sunshine, which is one Of natures best
purifiers and germ killers.
An interesting feature of several
state fairs this fall will be Guernsey
and Jersey Enthusiastically excitable and
dangerous-broken and hitched to carts
and driven by children. This is an
excellent stunt for such occasions, but
better still when put into every day
practice on the farms Working him
in the manner indicated not only begets
a more equable and gentle disposition
N the herd sire. but will insure greater
vigor in his offspring Besides this. the
life insurance of those about the place
doesn't need to be quite so high.
Estimates which have lately been
compiled by the postoffice department
put at $125,000,0O0 the amount out of
which easy and gullible investors have
been swindled during the fiscal year
closing June 80, 1912. The fake and
blue sky enterprises in which the hard
rash of these victims has been sunk
have been of almost limitless kind and
variety. And the great pity Of 1t all is
that the bulk of this money that was
stolen was taken from people of mod
EST savings who netertained the delu-
slve hope that they could play a game
and get something for nothing.
A short time since the writer spent a
week in a suburb of Chicago. and he
was impressed with the remarkable
vigor and thriftiness. as we'll as glossl-
: Less. of foliage of the cottonwood trees
that were growing on the borders of
the streets and boulevards. Their
condition was in very marked contrast
to the elm, box elder ash and maple,
which under rural conditions are usu-
ally very thrifty. Just why the cotton
wood does so much better under the
conditions to be found in the gas and
: soft coal cities we cannot say, but 1t
Is clear that II does.