Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-10-04
Il Pays to Beautify Home
Grounds.

It Pays to Beautify Home
Grounds. ~.
The barren home on the prairie
where the summer winds and hot sur
saps the moisture until the yard is
baked and gives off a furnace heat
is not apelasant home to live in and
there is no reason why anyone should
live there. It is not alone question
! of beauty and comfort-it goes much
further than that. 1t is a matter Of
general health with the strongest and
nervous breakdown with those who
feel more keenly the effect of depress
ing conditions.
Growing trees and shrubbery cools
the air aside from the natural cool.
ness of the protection from the suns
rays. The leaves give off moisture
continually and its evaporation will
cool the air very much. This cooling
is kept up continually and the re-
freshing effect is at night especially.
Where the barren home is surround
ed by heated air from far into the
night the cooled air from the shaded
area. and the cooling effect of the
evaporated mixture overcomes the
heat the sun has left behind and
nights are far more comfortable.
lii winter the trees and higher
higher shrubs break the force of
cold winds and not only make the
homes more comfortable but save
fuel as well. You can readily tell the
difference in the fuel needed to heat
a house when the wind is blowing
hard and when there is no wind,
though the temperature outside be
the same. Trees tend to break the
force of the wind and just so far as
it does so far it saves fuel and pro-
vides us comfort. Then anyone will
recognize the practical value of pro-
lection from winter storms when
forced to be outside. Taller trees and
shrubs furnish shelter for animals
and the lower ones for chickens and
small animals.
In summer this protection from
winds conserve the moisture in the
soil where the garden and berry
patches are planted wAthin their
range. Winds remove more moisture
from the soil than the plants them
selves, and this moisture is lost value.
These are some of the practical
values of keeping things growing
about the home grounds and outbuild-
ings, but there is much more to be
said. There is active energy and am
bition generated by beautiful
home, especially where boys and
girls are growing up. There will be
much less discomfort, and discont-
ed worker is seldom an efficient work
er. Anything that makes the results
of labor seem worth while to the
boy or girl will make them willing
partners, and pride in the home is
one of the strongest forces to this
end. It is not only so with children
but parents as well. l know man
who bought rundown farm and his
great dream is to make it beautl-
full home, though he has to do it
gradually, and it is wonderful how
this keeps him keyed up to his best
effort. AS this matter of beautifying
with growing things is a. matter of
time and results are to be had con-
tinuously the effect is not passing
one. 1 have always envied the person
who could look back to a beautiful
childhood home, for my youthful
days were spent on rented farms.
and while we always had our flow
ers they were ANNALS and bedding
plants, and we did not know enough
about landscape work then to make
these fully efective.-Farm and
Ranch.