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...that cold weather has set in the playing field is being covered with hay each night to keep it from freezing As a wide strip through the middle of the field is practically bare it would soon become muddy and slippery if allowed to freeze and thaw
...sustained yield of a given amount of timber from a given area. The two problems encountered in effecting this regularity of yield are, first, how to replace trees cut and, second, how to improve the immature stand. Various methods are used to replace cut trees, including the group, strip, and thinning systems of cutting and also artificial planting. Care in lumbering, and thinning out of undesirable stock, such as grey birch and oak are the chief means of preserving and improving the stand...
...only during the last few years that there has been any trouble at all. The first troublesome insect was the elm-leaf beetle. It is a small beetle which feeds on the leaves of the elms, in its larval stage, appearing in such numbers as to strip the trees entirely of their foliage, thereby killing them. The trees in the west part of the Yard were attacked by this pest and considerable damage was done before they were overcome...
...limits named which is privately owned, and that is the Brighton abattoir. The only use which this company makes of the river is for the transportation of coal at very infrequent intervals. Furthermore, to conform with the War Department's stipulation it would be necessary only to procure a strip of land, on the river bank as has been done in Cambridge in front of the Stillman Infirmary and not to buy out or move the abattoir...
Seventy-five years ago, the "dignity of history" necessitated the portrayal of Washington as a man of frigid formality; nowadays, popularizers seek to strip the Father of his Country and show that he possessed many of the worst attributes of erring hamanity. Mr. Owen Wister has down neither of these things. He has given us a life-like representation of Washington, setting forth the kindliness of his character and showing that his greatness lay not in lacking human passions, but in controlling them, except on those rare occasions when to have done so would have been more than human...