Evening star., 1916-06-18
ALL AROUND TIE PLACE.

Now that the value Of architectural
garden features Is becoming more uni
versally recognized. it behooves the
to give the matter due con-
Few houses are too modest
or have grounds too small to permit
some such interesting touch. It may
be simple arbor seat, a trellis or
even q garden gate. but whatever the
architectural features are. the fanciful
or grotesque should be avoided and
only artistic simple lines be employed.
The question Of tho material en-
ployed in these features is Of the ut
most Importance. A close relationship
should be maintained between the ma
terials here and those employed in the
adjacent buildings.
While it is not necessary in all cases
that stated material be used. the
style and details of the house should
always suggest the nature OF the gar
den features; as, for instance, q brick
country house OF colonial style with e1-
terror trim Of which would naturally
call to mind visions Of white trellis
work, white wood pergola or a white
arbor along simple colonial lines.
A number Of experiments made IN
different states show that a really good
acre instead Of SIS to $40. In addition
to this, expert corn growers OFTEN ada
to their profits by selling high quail
ity of seed to their neighbors and city
dealers. 1t is evident the crop can be
made worth much more than ordinary
by skill and care.
Every farmer should clean his seed
before sowing it. This should be done
before the field work in the spring. A
ing the grain for spring sowing Is OF
more profit than the average farmer
realizes. A good tanning mill or seed
grader may necessitate the outlay OF q
few dollars. together with day or
two's work once a year, in order to
grade and clean the farm seed, but
when one considers that yields can be
Increased to 20 per cent by SO doing
he sees that the money and time are
very prof1tably spent. Seed grain that
will improve II properly handled and
not run out. By cleaning the grain lis
separated from the weed seed, dirt and
foreign matter. Weeds rob plants OF
food. moisture. light and room. Tnis IN
some cases cuts the yield nearly In
two.
Give the clover chance to make
healthy plant by adding lime, phos-
phorus and potash to soils that need
them. In some way add vegetable mat
ter to the soil and keep up the supply
by turning under clover often enough.
Give the seed a fair chance by placing
it in mellow soil and covering it from
half to an inch deep. If sown with
nurse crop give the young plants
chance by not seeding the grain crop
too thickly, by top dressing with ma
nure II practicable, and by cutting the
stubble as high as possible.
To prolong the blossoming season Of
hollyhocks cut out the bloom buds as
soon as they appear from every other
stalk It retards the blossoms. which
return in increasing numbers. Keep up
this excision all summer and you will
have hollyhocks from June until heavy
frost. Cut out the flower stalks as
soon as they lose their blossoms. Do
not permit any seed to mature, This
process also increases the size and the
depth Of the coiors. Each plant in turn
must take the knife. Try it.
Have you bees? Why waste honey
crop? Why let your neighbors' bees
get your crop? Buy bees by the pound
with good Italian queen. Get few
swarms or your own this spring or
summer. Catch runaway swarms and
hive them in good hives.
Buy neglected stands of bees and take
care Of them and give them chance.
The bee is faithful and deserving
creature.
Furnish a neighbor beekeeper with a
few good hives, with frames and comb
foundation starters and pay him for
hiving a few swarms IN them for you.
Buy good strong. colonies of bees in
hives with straight combs. These
should be secured from some one
known to be reliable and experienced
in beekeeping.
Buy a few nuclei from reliable bee
supply man. nucleus is a part of a
colony of bees secured by dividing up
strong colony into two, three or
four parts, putting each part in a sep
arate hive to build up into a full colony.
This is the season of the year when
the larvae and small nests of the tent
caterpillar are likely to be found upon
localities where the caterpi1lars were
present last year. With the first warm
days of spring the larvae escape from
the eggshells in which they have lain
dormant during the winter. Trees in
tested with larvae during the early
part of the year, or those in the i'm
mediate vicinity. are perhaps more
likely to be chosen by the parent moth
for the deposition of her eggs. and
such trees at least should be searched.
AS soon as small nests are detected
they should be destroyed, as this pre-
vents further defoliation OF the tree.
When in convenient reach the nests
may be torn out with brush. with
larvae crushed on the ground. care