Show HOW WW TO GATHER AND PEEL BASKET WILLOW to gather do not look for it on the low fiata flata ot jordan and salt lake and on low flat places where when itis it ia smothered wath w ltha weeds and shaded by brush for there it is a generally brittle and worth woith less lees it lt is plentiful and usually good where nire fire or the ax has hasa haab a year previous dest deat destroyed toyed a heavy growth in the abrons or beside cation cahon streams in ira the valleys raf raJ leya ieya it aho also follows the farmers mers efforts to destroy it isyou if you have he some aonie gather and peel feel it t women and children can cau do it and aud it takes but a smail small bundle ot of white willow to buy a hat bat or shoes and it ia ii marketable the whole year jear if the first lot prove detective defective detect defect ive ire you will vill learn thereby how to do next time but it these instructions are carefully followed there will be no failure fa they will fetch from nife fife sive five to fifteen cents per pound accor according to size eize quality and time of ot marketing I 1 the best varieties are the black blach and grey those having baving a wide leat leaf growing in clumps etc not the running boit bolt yet good shoots aie ate sometimes found on every kind hind toughness ia is an indispensable re guf gui rement shoots are required ot of all length lengths 83 from two to eight feet long and should be cut clo cla clohe close ee to the stump or ground to secure the best part ot of the willow and the heaviest raight tt tit clean chota of one yeats yeas growth which can bo lie kinked kicked over without breaking cannot use nee brush two year old stalks that are tough and running jing free of brush a length of ihre three o fuet feet or more aie used to peel they are ready in april or may when the bud swells and the leaf forms forma as its large aj a mouses ears they must be cut and not allowed to wilt before wore peeling but may if necessary necess ary aTy be kept a few das day days a by fetting setting the butts butte in water bome borne kinds are ready sooner than others but when ready they must be cut as in a abort time they are leafed out fully and become yellow and brittle A strip P per is made by splitting half way i down a piece of hard wood two feet long and two inches thick and then whittling into the cleft ao so as to make two edges or corners meet the green willow drawn through this cleft is separated from the bark which can cau then ba removed by the fingers il tigers it is then laid out in the sun to dry kept out of bf the rain and when quite dry tied together in bundles now beginners are apt to pinch them too hard inthe in the brake or stripper and thus crush and spoil them this taia must eways aj ways bs be carefully avoided even bj by experienced perien eed ced parsons it will wll require clr about four hundred pound pounds of f g green willow to make ono hundred of white jon JOB emith SMITH JOSEPH HODGINS THOMAS hug rua basket bakera 1 k |