Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-03-04

His estimate of Expense and Node o
yrowing 7imbea'-Best Tariet,es.
The lecturer. after showing the bene
fetal influence of forests in many ways
and the necessity tor timber planting
proceeded to estimateactual cost OF rails
ing timbcr-and the method.
He made his estimate upon grove
of ten acres, planted with white ash
and black walnut, five acres OF each
These varieties grow at about the same
rate and are about equally valuabl.
for timber. The seeds OF the ash, like
all seeds of this class, which ripen in
the autumn, should be gathered wher
ripe and kept in the cellar through
winter.
The walnut should be spread evenly
upon the ground, not more than two
nuts in depth, and covered with two
OF three inches of mellow soil, that
they may freeze during the winter, to
be pl nted in the spring as soon a.
they show signs OF sprouting. The
land should be deeply plowcd, late in
the fall, ifpossible, and finely pulver-
lied in the spring, and marked both
ways as for corn, three feet, eight
inches apart. The seeds and nuts
should be planted eleven feet apart,
which will admit oftwo rows OF corn
or potatoes between each two rows OF,
trees. BY putting two or three seeds
in place, to be thinned out to one, II
both or all terminate, an even stand
may be secured.
A better way is to plant in rows
eleven feet apart, running north and
south, and three teet eight inches in
the row. This will secure straight
trees, being closer, and they may be
thinned out to eleven feet each way,
when large enough to Use as grape
sticks or hop poles. This will give
three hundred and sixty trees per acre,
or three thousand trees in all, allow
ing for sixty vacancies. Though in all
cases Of tree planting, VIII, Their in
groves or screens, supply of good
plants, grown elsewhere, should al
ways be in readiness to use in filling
vacancies, which should be done at the
end OF the FIRST year. The preparation
OF the ten acres OF ground at five dot
lars per acre would be fifty dollars.
Average cost OF seed fifty cents per
acre.. Plant ng s25. Cultivation
during first five years will be paid tol
in the crops grown between the rows
For cultivation from the fifth TO the
ninth years. with horses, only thirty
dollars per year, sl20. Alter this nc
care or cultivation will be needed
Thle makes the entire cost, in seed and
labor, OF the ten acres OF trees 1900.
These trees will at % years old, av.
erage is inches in diameter at the
ground and about 10 inches at the
hight of Is feet.
This will give, deducting waste in
saving, 100 feet Of lumber per tree
Allowing l-6 I or damage by the ele
ments and loss from other causes, We
have in round numbers $4,000 feet
OF lumber, which at $50 per thousand
would amount 10 $4,000. The value
OF the tree tops tor fuel would be
equal to the cost OF preparing the logs
tor the mill, and the expense OF saving
would not exceed Is per thousand IT,
This, added to the cost OF producing
the trees and the amount deducted
from the value OF the lumber, leaves
$4,000 for the use Of 10 acrss Of land 70,
rs years; and the interest upon the a.
mount expended in planting and cul.
tivating the trees!
This statement may be deemed in
credible, perhaps, by those who have
not previously turned their attention
to the subject. But after much study
aud many years.obsel walton and meas
urements OF growth of different varie-
ties OF trees, am convinced that in all
well conduc ed experiments in grow
ing artificial groves upon oar large
pralries, the profits will not fall tar
short OF the rates above stated.
1t must be borne in mind that trees
stand ng at regular and proper distan-
ces, upon rich prairie soil, and rec.i .
ing good cultivation, will grow much
faster than the same varieties as
usually found growing III natural
groves.
For list Of varieties, suitable for
planting an artificial grove, / would
refer all interested to the Last rect M
mended by our State Hort. Society.
with the remark that the planter can
hardly go astray in planting any tree
which is indigenous to a soil and eli
mate similar to its own, while many
trees whose native homes are found in
ia.i udes north or south have proved
va.uable-as the Osage Orange and
Cataip, from the South. and the Red
Fine, White Spruce and Others from
the North. SHORT HAND.
Prairie Farmer.
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