The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-07
FARM AND GARDEN.

TREES BY THE ROADSIDE AND IN The
PASTURE.
One OF the easiest and simplest ways
of improving the appearance Of our
highways, and adding value TO the ad-
jacent farms, is by the setting out of
shade trees, hedges, and other orna-
mental shrubbery. There are no more
pleasant and delightful farming regions
and Connecticut, and some sections of
our own Slater where the farmers, for
generations, have taken pains to plant
and keep in order these beautifers of
their property. To those who have
ridden, in the heat and dust of summer
time, through groves extending for
miles along the roadside boundaries of
contiguous farms, we need say nothing
in their praise. They are already con-
WINGED of their value, and we doubt
not, have. or will, improve their own
farms in like manner. To those who
have not enjoyed the delight of riding
through these cool avenues, we have
only TO say, improve your first oppor-
tunitY of doing SO. You cannot fail to
be pleased with the result, even If you
do not emulate the example or the thrift
ty farmers whose lands you traverse,
by planting trees upon your own soil.
Many who are thoroughly convinced of
the desirability of these roadside trees,
do not set them out, because, forsootb,
they will not oVerarch the highway,
and attain their full beauty, before they
shall have passed beyond The reach of
their sheltering shade! 1t is this more
than anything else which keeps our
middle-aged, well-to.do farmers, who
have their lands paid for, abundance of
leisure and can as we'll do it as not, from
thus taking measures for the ornamen-
tation OF their farms. 1t is an unmanly
and selfish spirit which will thus pre-
vent man doing good deed which
will benefit his children, for the simple
reason that it will not directly benefit
himself. Were this spirit universally
carried out, our world would be a poor
place to live in.
We say by all means set out trees,
plant hedges, and put your farms in tho
way OF becoming vastly more pleasant
and attractive than now, even If your
lives will not be spared to witness the
perfecting of your work. You will GER
tainly enjoy the consciousness of hav-
ing done something for which your
children will praise you, and if you go
about the work soon enough, you may
yourself enjoy its first fruits.
We cannot leave this subject without
saying a word in regard to shade trees
in pastures. Enough has been said
upon this subject of late years, by e1-
perienced and we'll informed dairymen
and stock growers, to not only fully
prove their value, but TO establish the
fact that they are absolutely indispen-
sable to the comfort and we'll doing of
the stock. The best way to meet this
want if there is no grove of which the
stock can have the benefit, is to put out
trees in clumps In different portions Of
the pasture, and fence them in until
they have attained sufficient size to
make them of use. No Intelligent dali
rvmen will turn lis cows into a pasture
where thew can find no shelter from the
SUMS rays, if he can avoid it.
AS to planting trees by tho roadside,
we should be glad to have our :egisla-
lures class the matter under the head
of"Internal improvements, hH0 make
certainly a matter OF sufficient impor-
lance to be worthy of their attention.
Utica Herald.