St Nicholas [serial] . you please tell me whethertides are felt on the Great Lakes or on the rivers ?Yours truly, Crary Glover. Tides are felt on lakes to a very, very smallextent and not at all on rivers (unless the rivers,like the Hudson, run into the ocean, when theocean tide is felt), for the reason that it needsboth great depth and large expanse to allow thetidal wave to roll itself up. —S. A. Mitchell. COTTON-SEED PLANTED IN APRIL INTHE NORTH readers: Herewith is a photograph of cotton which was raised ina back yard in the city of Chicago. The seed was fromcotton cultivated in Oklahoma,
St Nicholas [serial] . you please tell me whethertides are felt on the Great Lakes or on the rivers ?Yours truly, Crary Glover. Tides are felt on lakes to a very, very smallextent and not at all on rivers (unless the rivers,like the Hudson, run into the ocean, when theocean tide is felt), for the reason that it needsboth great depth and large expanse to allow thetidal wave to roll itself up. —S. A. Mitchell. COTTON-SEED PLANTED IN APRIL INTHE NORTH readers: Herewith is a photograph of cotton which was raised ina back yard in the city of Chicago. The seed was fromcotton cultivated in Oklahoma, and was planted early inApril. The yellow and pink blossoms remained but a dayor so, dropping off to reveal the small green bolls. Thesesteadily developed and, as the frost was late this year, at-tained something like maturity. The accompanying pho-tograph was taken late in October. The cotton measuredtwo inches across. This is the first time, out of severaltrials, that the cotton has matured, as the early frost has. COTTON GROWN IN CHICAGO. heretofore always killed the plant before it could fullydevelop. — R. Phillips, Pullman, 111. I suggest that our Northern readers try plant-ing cotton-seed in earth in a box or a flower-potin the house early in April, and then transplant-ing to the garden about the middle of May. Letus see how far north cotton may be grown. There were not a fewsurprises among the con-tributions this the first place therewas considerable inge-nuity displayed by manycontributors in adapt-ing their drawings tothe subject SomethingRound, as is shown ata glance by the threeclever designs upon thispage. The entire rowof little pictures at thetop of page 570 exhibitsthe many different viewsof Something Round that can be taken in verysimple drawings. Therewas not a little humor,too, in the selection ofa simple circle amongthese! It suggests the
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