Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1911 — FAMILY ARBOR DAY. [ARTICLE]

FAMILY ARBOR DAY.

Parents and Children Can Do Much to Protect Trees.

Arbor day celebration need not be confined to clnbs and to schools; it may be made a valuable ceremony among family festivities. It is quite as valuable to learn how to care for trees growing in the yard as to plant new ones. Arbor day is the occasion to drive home observations against tying the clothesline to young saplings, swinging the hammock between trees and injuring the bark, permitting horses to bark trees before the bouse or the cook to empty the salt water from the ice cream freezer at the roots of the single oak or elm near the back door. Electric wires do much damage, and then there are the live pests, caterpillars and scales, which may be routed If taken in time.

A sickly looking tree may need a fertilizer or the earth spaded about its roots. In a district where there are no trees a program of tree songs and poems and a trip to one of the parks would revive the spirit of the day. Of course the planting of new trees is not to be discouraged, and it is hoped that many nurserymen have been consulted in advance of Arbor day.