FORESTRY AND HOMECROFTS
ADDRESS OF GEORGE II. MAX
HULL, DEAN OF THE HOME
CROFTERS (HID OF THE
TALIS SI AS.
Bfor th HIennlal Convention of
tha Caneral federation ol Women'
Clubs, at St. Paul Minn., June
Fourth, f&Ott.
MAIAMK DKNT ANI UV'A.V,-
(1ATKM l.AI'IKH A N I tlKN'n.K
M KN:
WIiimi I riMflcl (ho 1 ti v It m t Ion lo Iki
with you to-ilny mid xpciik upon
tin miliJiM-t "I'orontry nml llomi'
crofts," a It lit nnnouncod on tlu
program, I felt Unit tln occasion whs
oni of o much linportanri1, and tin
niMirtiiiill,v ciii which I no (treat ly up
iriliilccl. Hint 1 ill u ht to do koiiio
thlnir which I rnrrly do, mid that whs
to at IciiMt think out n kihm'cIi In nd
vmii'i. I wiih nnki'd for n niitiitiMcrlit
of It for tin- itcmm, hut I felt thiil It
wiim Ulixiiff lo iilvi' It liccniixc I lii'Vcr
did that yet tlmt NomctliliiK didn't
tut K'ti Hint tiiiuh tin lny iixldf my
HHi-ch mid tit 1 k nlioiit xiiiiii'l Mini rl.
I linvc n Mici'i h , cuiriMt which wn
lilmiiM'tl to In Mt fur tin If mi hour, mid
thiTi' It Ih (holdliiir up n cnrdi. Now,
I hiivc llficcn uiluut to MHiik. mid
I nut K'llntr to Mini Hint mmtIi for
moiiio ollii-r ocrimlon, III Komi other
lillici. 1111(1 talk to you liliollt Holiii'tliillK
which line Immmi niij;K'Ht'd to mo Iiitc
Ihlx imTiiliitf ly I lie inliltcwH c Iiii
Juxt llNtfiii-d to from Mr. Mill.
I wiin I miiii In California mid ciit
my lift llicrt" (ri ln iim from the Cali
fornia dilcKiitcMi tt u 1 11 wlllcln ii very
few yi'iirn whtMi my work In the Na
tional Irrigation Movement took me
Hwuy from my native utate. Itut I
wmit to take iiclvntitaue of thlx ni
IHirliiulty to Htand here mid make a
pleu for the preservation of thime
'rempleM of od the IIIk Trees of
California. (Applause.)
I ipicHlloii very much whether thorn
who lire here to-day rcnllr. the mver
tlmt Is your. Iii hriiiKliiK about rlu'it
m l Ion. whether It lie In roiiirreNMlonnl
or Mtate h'u'lHlntloii. We often May
that thlM m ii irovcrntiieiit of the mi.
pie, mid that It I controlled by their
votcH So II m. Hut behind the vote
Ih the tliollk'ht of the ieope. It In
puldlc opinion which controls thU
iMiiintry. The vote merely ii reirU
terlnu of that opinion; nml the thoimlit
of the H-ople which precedeM that
opinion and brluu about reform . Ik,
Iii my Judgment, often n thine that
HprliiKM from the mind of tin1 women
of the coiiitiry mther than from the
mind of tin' men of the country.
I am free to nay that In my earlier
year", mid In-fore I had a wider ox
ht' "ice and opportunities of oh
ert ni Ion, t wan not ii I.i IIcmt In nv.
Ihk tin hallot to the women. I mil
not here to make n pica for that to
il ay, liecmiNe I mu not no much lm
preMNcd with the Importance of It as
other who think that the hallot Ii the
main flilnc. It In the conversation of
the home circle mid the thouchtx Hint
prlim inoKt often from tin mind of
the mot hern of the country Hint con
trol this country. (Applause.)
And although I helleve to-ilay that
the Hiatus of the man mid the woman,
ko far iih their rights of cltlr-eiishlp
nml lights he fore the law are con
cerned, hIioiiIiI lie the smile, I Wllllt
to lay that conclusion hefore you
Mluiply Ili4 ii IhihIm for the hronder
Mtateiiienf that women ciin control
thin country ly the power of thought
without the hallot. If the Women who
lire here to day and those who lire nf
nllittcd with you In thlx ureat ortriinl
zatloii. would take up one or two
things as the result of this conference
unit :o hence mid aclinic It In every
home circle, and In every women'K
cluh. and 111 every village mid city,
mid through the columns of every
newspaper In the land, and hy cor
respomleiice, you could accomplish
within Hie next twelve moutliH two
treat things which would he n record
of accomplishment sulllclcnt for one
year of hiird work for your oruaul.a
lion, mid that Is. Ilrst. to save the hie
trees of California (Applause); mid.
second, to secure the passage of the
hill providing for forest reserves. In
the White Mohntnlim mid on the A
paliichlau Uuiiko. (Applause.)
If those (rrcnt trees In California
were once destroyed they could not
he replaced In cciiturlcH mid probably
never. They were Were wlien I nrisi
walked the earth. They were there
when Itoinc shone resplendent In all
her irlory. They were there when
Cart ha ire nestled a in Id jrrcen field
nml vineyard, on the southern shores
of the Mediterranean. They were there
when Palmyra, with all her nuiuiiln-
cenco, was the lueetliu: plat f the
caravan:! traveling between Asia and
the Mediterranean country. Ami to
dnv they stand there pleadlnn with
their out spreiKlliik' brunches aizaltixt
ruthless ilestructloii to satisfy the
greed of man.
We may ko hack through history,
mid ruined city alter ruined city
shown how ephemeral Is everything
that man builds. Did Ih never occur
to you. him It never occurred to those
who are Interested In uplift ln and
IncreiiHlnk' the power for k,mmI ,lu
church, and In carry Inc It missionary
work Into the cities and Into the hIuihh
nml Into the tenements, where. Hod
knows, It In needed most of anywhere
on this earth has. It never occurred to
von that a child nurtured In the tene
inei ts and in the slum, and In the
('It. Jhita, and seclnft nothlnt; nrouml
It hut hrlcka and mortar and asphalt
and trollev-carH and thlnus that innn
has made, liven win ro there is nothing
to create u conception of a higher
power, ami luckn the Inlluence of the
Mplendld inatilfeKtatlonH of nature,
which are the most oonvlnclmr revela
tion that we have that there m u
Creator, and that there In a lod, and
that there Hhonld he a faith In rellKion
In the heart of every num.
If you wnn to make thin a religious
iinllon ns von must If It In to lie pre
erv,.il v.. ii must iret the children Of
the cltlcn hack to nature, and under
the Hindi of Itn Influence, or at leant
rear them In nn environment where
they can Bee nml he convinced by the
miracle of nature'n inyHterlea that
there la "a do.' who Utile" the world
and llolls the agen on." (ApplauHe.)
t And to through you I appeal not
-fnlv to Him women Of the COUlUrJ', DUt
to the chuichen of the country, to put
fWtll fvery Influence, not only to "T
those great tree In California, hut to
a Id till whole (treat movement for the
preservation of the forest we have, hy
their rliriit use, for the plan Hum" of new
forests, and for He1 scatterliiK through
thl great nation. In every state mid
territory, of forest plantations that,
when they come to maturity n genera
tion from now, will supply every state
with wood and Hinder of every kind
for every purpose frjmi Forests ami
Tree Plantation wlffltii Its own hor
ilers. I have no time today to go Into de.
lulls, hut If you will go Into the South
and see tlx actual conditions with ref
erence to the water supply on the
streams Mowing from the Appalachian
mountains, mid study the heiiutles of
that country, you will he converted
In an Instant to the iiecessllv for the
creation of the Appalachian I'orest re
nerve; and the same thing Is true of
the prosisid Vhlte Mountain Forest
Reservation In New 'iiKliind. Those
Iteserves are comparatively small
thing In the amount of money In
volved. If we can throw money to the
hlnls, ns a manure spreader throws It
out of the hack of a w.iuoii Into Hi
held, to liulld the Paliam.'l canal and
tonnage the cnict of Hie Philippine
Islands, and to liulld huge hattleshlis,
I maintain that we can at least spare
money enough to perpetuate Hit for
ests that (,od gave us and for the pres
ervation of nil the Internal Itesourci-s
of our country at home, (Applause.)
I maintain another thing, mid tlmt
Is that If the women who are here to
day would go to their hollies from this
convention, nml take up nud study the
possibilities of the development of
Arizona nml New Mexico under ft
policy which will reserve for national
control the forests mid the water sup
ply which art tin only things that
keep that great country from going
hack to the desert, you would save
thl nation from the Infamy of Join
ing Arizona and New Mexico In the
houds of Joint slntcli'Msl. In the face
of your opMistlou that great wronu
could never he accomplished. All
women In the land should rise up mid
protest against It, hecituse It Is
nliaiiilonllig the destiny mid develop
ment of the foundation of all the re
sources for homemnklug of those ter
ritories to the unrestrained legislative
control of a legislature which will he
dominated hy the most evil political
Influences that ever existed In any
state the offscourings of the worst
Hilitlcnl rottenness that ever pre
vailed III Pennsylvania, coupled with
the lniilltles that will prevail hy
reason of the fact that so huge a pro
Hirtlnu of the population of New
Mexico cannot even ss-ak the Iviigllsh
Language. The Joint statehood hill
proposes to give to the control of such
a legislature as Hint, without any pos.
slide check r hliidcrance, n land irrant
of iilsmt twenty million acres to
grali ami scciilutc with mid graft on
and practically to do with as they
please. (Applause.!
1 only want to say In closing: If
you tlnd crime anywhere; If you tlnd
a man gone wrong anywhere; If you
II ml political corruption or anvtliiin.'
going wroi , In our pollllcal Institu
tions, you will II d. If you trai-e It
hack, that the fault lien In Us original
source, tit some place or other. In the
fact that tliere wan not the right
kind of a homi and the rlk'ht
kind of a mother. If you tlnd a
mail of strong ami sterling character
(or a woman ellheri you trace it ha
ami you wilt tlnd that It was hecause
there was the right kind of a mother,
ami the Cght kind of a home.
We have heard a gss deal lately
ahout the 'inn ii Is-hlnd the gun" ami
the "1111111 Im-IiIiuI the pick" ami 'Hit!
man hehlml Hie hallot" ami the "man
hchllld" a great liniriv o her things,
hut I want to tell you that you can
pile them all one upon another like
(issa upon Pcllmi ami all of them to
gether are not of an much liiiHirtauce
as the "Mother behind the Home!"
(Applause.!
If you are to have the right kind of
homes and the right kind of mothers
everywhere throughout ne length ami
breadth of thin great and beautiful
country of ours, you must make It
easily possible for every man who
works and liven by his toil to have n
home of his own on the laud a
IIOMKCKOIT. hov ever Mnall.
You must train every child In
garden schtsiln to know how to plant
seeds mid make things srnw and get
food directly from the bossom of
Mother Kurth. You must so train all
boy and uliin that their Ilrst great
ambition will Im to get a home of
their own with a piece of ground
around It large enough for a garden.
The CimmI Hook tells us that "Cod
planted a garden eastward in Kdeu;
and there lie put tne man wiuuu ne
had formed. And tint of the ground
made the Lord !od to grow every
tree that In pleasant to the sight and
gOOll for flMKl,"
(iod Intended that every man aim
woman ami every child should live
next to nature and on the l..nd. ami
every man who marries a woman
should put her In a Home in me muisi
of a garden.
The great movement which In now
falrlv under wuy, known an the
IIOMKCKOFT MOVFMF.NT, pro
poses to do that v -y thing, and Hie
Creed and Plat form f' the Home
crofter tell how It may be done.
The slognn of the Homeeroft Move
ment Is:
"Fvery Child In n C.nrden Fvery
Mother in a Homeeroft ami Individ
ual In.luMtrliil Independence for F.very
Worker, In u Home of Ida Own on the
l',,ml" . . , , , i
In not that a Cause which should
have the ardent and enthusiastic sup-
i i-n-oiieiatlou of every man
and woman, and especially of every
mother In the land?
THE FIRST BOOK OF THE
BY
George H. Maxwell
COIMTKNTH
THE BROTHERHOOD OP MAM
CHARITY THAT 13 EVERLASTING
THE SECRET OP NIPPON'S POWER
LESSON OF A CREAT CALAMITY
THB SICN OF A THOUGHT
Thl book will be mailed to any a.tdrr.
la tha United State cm receipt of twelve
two cent atamps, by
The Homeoroiter Gild of the Talisman
lit Main Street, Watertown, Mnia.
BE A HOMECROFTER
Learn by Doing. Work Together.
Give every Man a Chance.
THB H LOGAN OP TUB HoMKCkoPTKk.S I
"Every Chlhl In it (innlvn -Every Mother In u llnmecntlt, ami Indi
vidual, Indunlrlnl Independenve fur Every Worker In a
Home of hi Own on the Lund."
"A Mil cfot w crwn1 floi of corn.
A rMn Kor with I and mint r.4 thytn.
A"d (i'wr for fxl, ml on Suiviiy morn.
Pluck1 whll ll church balli rr( their sir limit chlmol."
H ordrwot Ih.
"Th Cltl'in Un'jlnir In Ilia doorway of hi h'ma ronton!-) mi hta thrathoH. hit family
icathara'l al'xit hit haarlhaton. whll Ih aranlnt: of a r.l i.r.t laycloaa In tcanaaand
imA ttat ara 4rtt h (hall Mr tha K.lAjhlr. whan lla drum-u Is futi.a arid I ha
Unai.kt ara ahuta4." tlrttty H . (.rtlJy
"The slums and tenement of the
great cities are social dynamite, cer
tain to explode sooner or later. The
only safeguard against such danger
is to plant the multiplying millions of
EDUCATION
OFPORTUNITT
THE FIRST BOOK HOMECROFTERS
HAS JUST BFKN PUBLISHED AND AMONG ITS CONTENTS ARE
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES OK ABSORBING INTEREST BY
GEORGE H. MAXWELL
tiaxMitltra Chairman of tha) National Irrigation Aaaoalatlofl
The Brotherhood of Man
Charity that is Everlasting
The Secret of Nippon's Power
Lesson of a Great Calamity
The Sign of a Thought
This Isvik Is thf first of n Series
Hint vlll Chronicle the I'mres of the
ll .M F. TtOFT MOV KM KNT
and Inform all w ho wish to co-operate,
with it how they may do so through
Hie fni illation of hs-al Homecrof ters
Circles, Club or tilhln to promote
Town and Village Itcttcrincnt. stimu
late home civic pride and loyalty to
home Institutions, Industries ami trade,
improve methods ami facilities of edu
cation In t'u- local public schools, and
create How opsirtUliitles "At Home-'
that will en far to check the drift of
trade and opuhition to the cities.
The Ilrst (iild of Hie lomecroftern
has been established at Watertown.
Massachusetts. The ClhlhalL Shops
and liurilens are located at ll.'l Main
Street, where the Harden School Is
now fully organized aiuV over one
hundred children are at work In the
Hardens. The departments for train
ing In Homecraft and Village Indus
tries are being installed. The Weavers
are already at work at the loom.
It is not designed to build here an
isolated institution, but to make a
misJel which can be duplicated in any
town or village In the country.
Copies of "TIIH Fl ItST HOOK OF
TI1K JIOMKCKOFTKIIS" can Is- ob
tained by sending twelve two-cent
stamps with your name and address
(carefully nml plainly w.'.ttcnl to The
llomecrofter' tilld of the Talisman.
11.1 Main St., Watertown, Massa
chusetts. There Is New Hois' and Inspiration
for every Worker who wants a Home
of his own on the Land in the
CHKKI) ANH l'LATFOHM OF TUB
MOM KCKOFTEKS' which is as fol
lows:
"l'eace has her victories uo less re
nowned than war."
EDUCATION
CO-OPERATION
OPPORTUNITY
HOMECROFTS
We believe that the Patriotic Slogan
of the Whole l'eople of this Nation
should be "Every Chlhl in a tSarden
Every Mother in a Homeeroft and In
dividual Industrial Independence for
Every Worker in a Home of his Own
on the Land," ami that until he owns
such a Home, the concentrated purpose
and chief Inspiration to labor in the life
of every wage worker should be his
determination to "Uet an Acre an.l
Live on It."
We believe that the Slums nml
Tenements and Congested Centers of
population In the Cities are a savagely
deteriorating social, moral and polit
ical Influence, ami that a great public
movement should be organized, ami
the whole power of the nation and
the states exerted for the betterment
of all the conditions of Iturnl Life, and
to create and upbuild Centers of so
cial and Civic Life In Country and
Suburban Town and Villages, where
Trade and Industry can be so firmly
anchored that they cannot be drawn
Into the Commercial Maelstrom that
In now steadily sucking Industry and
Humanity Into the Vortex of the
tireat Cities.
We believe that every Citizen In
thlr Country has nn inherent and
Fundamental Htght to an Education
which will train him to Earn a Liv
ing, and. If need be, to get his living
straight from Mother Earth; and that
ho ha the same right to the Opportun
ity to have the Work to lo which will
afford hi m that living, and to earn not
only a comfortable livelihood, but
enough more to enable him to be a
llomecrofter and to have a Home of
his Own, with ground around It
Hutllcieut to yield him and his family
a Living from the Land uu the reward
for his own labor.
We believe that the Public Domain
is the most precious heritage of the.
people, and the surest safeguard the
tuition lias against Social Unrest, Dis
turbance or Upheaval, and that the
Cause of Humanity aud the I'reserva-
f;on of Social Stability and of our Freo
nstltutiotin demand that the absorp
tion of the public land Into specula
tive private ownership, without settle
ment, be forthwith stopped; and that
the na'tlon should create opportunities
for llomecrofter by building Irriga
tion and dralnuge works to reclaim
our fast Increasing population in n-
dividual hoiiics on the land - home-(
crofts, however small, owned hy the .
occulta lit. where everv worker mid tils
f,y ,. enjoy individual Industrial
independence." (.enrge II. Maxwell.
l ill 1UII II i
ntTii I HOMECRAFTS I
Jfil COOPERATION
land as fast as it is needed to give
every man who wants a Home on the
Land a chance to get It.
We believe that, as a Nation, we
nhoiild Ik- (ess absorbed with Making
Money, and should pay more heed to
raising up and training Men who will
be Law-Abiding Citizens; that the wel
fare of our Workers is of more con
seipience than the mere accumulation
of Wealth; anil that Stability of Na
tional Character and of Social and
HusiiicH Conditions is of greater im
portance to the sopIc of this country
as a whole than any other one cpies- ,
Hon that is now before them; and we i
Isdieve Hint the only way to Preserve i
such Stability, mid to Permanently ,
Maintain our National Prosperity, is :
to carry Into immediate effect and
operation the Platform of the Talis
man, which is as follows:
EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND
HOMES ON THE LAND.
1. That children shall bo taught
gardening and homecraft in the public
schools, and that Homecraft and
Garden Training Schools shall be
i-stabllshed by county, municipal,
state, and national governments,
where every boy and every man out
of work who wants employment where i
he can gain that knowledge, can learn i
how to make a home and till the soil 1
and get his living straight from the
ground, and where every Isiy would
be taught that his first aim in life
should Is? to get a home of his own
on the land.
lU'ILD HOMECROFTS AS NATION
AL SAFEGUAItDS.
2. That the New Zeahinii system of I
l-and Taxation and Laud Purchase .
and Subdivision, and Advances to Set- !
tiers Act. shall be adopted in this
country, to the end that laud shall lie
sulsllvided into small holdings in the ,
hands of those who will till It for a
livelihood, aud labor tlnd occupation
In the creation of liomecrofts, which
will Is.- sTs'tual safeguards against i
the jHilitical evils and social discontent j
resulting from the overgrowth of I
cities and . the sufferings of unem- S
ployed wpge-earnors.
PROTECTION FOR THE AMER
ICAN 1IOMECKOFT.
X That Rural Settlement shall be
encouraged and the principle of Pro
tection for the American Wageworker
and his Home applied directly to the
Home by the Exemption from Taxa
tion of all Improvements ujion, and
also of all personal property, not ex
ceeding ifl'.rsHi in value, used on and
in connection with, every Homeeroft
or Rural Homestead of not more than
ten acres in extent, which the owner
occupies as a permanent home and
cultivates with his own labor and so
provides therefrom all or part of the
support for a family. g
ENLARGEMENT OF AREA AVAIL
ABLE FOR HOMEMAKING.
4. That the National (Joverument,
an part of a comprehensive nation
al policy of internal improvements
for river control and regulation.
and for the enlargement to the
utmost possible extent of the
area of the country available for agri
culture and Homes on the Land, and
for the protection of those Homes from
either tlood or drouth, shall build not
only levees and revetments where
needed, ami drainage works for the
reclamation of swamp and overflowed
lands, but shall also preserve existing
forests, reforest denuded areas, plant
new forests, and build the great reser
voir uud other engineering works
necessary to safeguard agulust over
flow and save for beuenclul use the
flood waters that now ruu to waste.
RECLAMATION AND SETTLE
MENT OF THE ARID LANDS.
5. Thnt the National Government
shall build the Irrigation works neces
sary to bring water within reach of
settlers on the arid lands, the cost of
sucn works to be repaid to the govern
ment by such setth rs In flnnnnl In
stallments without Interest, and that
the construction of the irrent Irrlimtlitn
works necessary for the utilization of
the waters of such large rivers as the
Columbia, the Sacramento, the Colo
rado, the Rio (i ramie, and Hia MluanuH
and their tributaries, shall proceed as
rapidly as the lands reclaimed will bo
utilized In small farms bv actual
aettlers and homeuiakers, wbo will re-
lay the government the cost of con
struction of the Irrigation works, and
that the amount needed each year for
construction, a revom mended by the
Secretary of the Interior, shall be
made available by Congres a a loan
from the general treasury to the Ke
cIhuihUoii Fund, ami repaid from
land reclaimed, as reuired by tlie
National Irrigation Act.
SAVE THE rUIlLIC LANDS FOK
110MEMAKEU8.
i. That not another acre of the prtS
lie lands shall ever hereafter Ih
granted to any state or territory for
any purisrse whntsrM'ver. or to any one
other than an actual settler who ha
built his home on the land and lived
on it for five years, mid that no more
land sr-rlp of any kind shall ever Is?
Issued, ami that the Desert Land Ijtw
atid the Commutation Clause of the
Homestead Ijiw shall Is? made to con
form to the recommendations of the
Public Lands Commission Bpilnfed
by President Itoosevelt and of tha
Message of ihe President to Congress.
PLANT FOKESTS AND CltEATE
FOIl EST PLANTATIONS.
7. That the Tlmtier and Stone Law
shall be repealeii. nnl that all pub
lic timber lands shall be included in
permanent I'orest llescrvc. the title
to the land to lie forever retained by
the .National Oovernmeiit. stnmpage
only of matured timber to be old.
ami young timber to be preserved for
future cutting. . that the forests will
b perpetuated by right Use; ami
JUST PUBLISHED
A POPULAR EDITION OF
THE C0f JG PEOPLE
ii
BY CHARLES F. DOLE
Author of The American Citizen ;"' " The Religion of a Gentleman ;
" The Spirit of Democracy," etc.
THIS remarkably interesting1 and stimulating book has
been everywhere welcomed as a most valuable con
tribution to the thought of the present day.
THERE IS IN IT THE INSPIRATION OF
HIGH AND PATRIOTIC IDEALS
It sheds a new light, bright, clear and convincing, in its
common sense optimism, upon the conditions that confront the
nation to-day. Everyone who reads it will go forward with a
clearer vision of the future of ol r country and with renewed
courage and faith in the cause ok the people.
Theodore C. Williams, late Master of the Hackley School,
New York, in a San Francisco paper, declares that "it gives the
profoundest thought with a transparent simplicity and charm
that make it universally readable. It speaks as a friend to a
friend. It has the rare eloquence of perfect ease and clearness."
The London Spectator calls it " a healthy and virile essay "
The Bradford (England) Observer, speaking- of its reality
and reasonableness, says it is " a very revelation."
These aretonly a few from hundreds of encomiums com
mending the book for its timeliness.
It should be read by all who feel the pressure of
THE TREMENDOUS SOCIAL QUESTIONS
OF OUR TIME.
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magazine as Maxwell's Home maker Mag
azine can be published for ten cents a year.
But we are doinsr it because the magazine
speaks for itself and tells its own story.
Ikre is what one ot our subscribers at Crockett, Texas,
writes :
"The March number of your excellent magazine is before
me It is certainiy filled with helpful articles, and I would be
glad to know that every family in Texas had the benefit of its
teachings. The first article in this number, A Homecrofter's
Garden,' should be preserved for reference. The Article
Health in the Home,' if carefully followed, woild save
sickness in every family. Anything that I can do to assist
you in extending your circulation in Texas will bo gladly
done."
Our circulation has grown so satisfactorily that with the April numberwo wer
able to enlarge the magazine and add several new features, and it will continue
to improve every month.
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The Delights of Gardening" in the April number would open the door of a
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H. That It shall be the law of every
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