ensible
people approve. Just as soon as such papers can be made to pay, they
say, we shall have them. One of the objects of this course is to create
a taste for constructive rather than destructive newspapers.

As an exercise tending to produce this result, the student should each
day examine the local paper for the purpose of ascertaining how many
columns of destruction and how many of construction it contains. The
result should be reported to the class and thence to the papers as news.

There are three kinds of items which boys and girls can write and which
are constructive. These are:

1. Items dealing with progress.
2. Humorous stories.
3. Items based on contrast.

The work this week will be on the first of these.

II. Models

I

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 22.--L. C. Phillips will plant 1,000 acres of
his southeast Missouri land in sunflowers this year as a further
demonstration that this plant can be cultivated with profit on
land where other crops may not thrive so well. Phillips has been
experimenting for several years in the culture of sunflowers,
whose seed, when mixed with other seed, makes excellent chicken
and hog feed. Last year he planted nearly 100 acres in
sunflowers. The cost of planting and harvesting is about $6 an
acre, he says, and the returns from $35 to $48.

II

HALIFAX, N.S., Dec. 25.--One of the most extraordinary
endowments bestowed by nature on any land is enjoyed by the
fortunate group of counties round the head of the Bay of Fundy,
Nova Scotia.

Along the shores of this bay there are great stretches of meadow
land covered with rich grass and dotted with barns. These
meadows have been brought into existence by the power of the
tides in the Bay of Fundy, which have no parallel elsewhere on
the globe. There is sometimes a difference of sixty feet between
the levels of the water at low and at high tide. The tide sweeps
in with a rush, carrying with it a vast amount of solid material
scoured out of its channel.

The accumulated deposits of the ages have produced a soil
seventy or eighty feet deep. Owing to its peculiarities, this
meadow land retains its fertility in a marvelous way, producing
heavy crops of hay annually without diminution and without
renewal for an indefinite number of years.

When renewal is desired it is only necessary to open a dike,
wh