Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1874-03-06

REGULATIONS.
l. All trees, or seeds to produce
the trees, to compete, must be plant
ed upon Arbor Day by the compel
itor aud such assistants as he may
employ, except where otherwise no.
ted in the premium list, and the
plantations for competition must
not average less than $500, or more
than 1856 trees to the acre, such
trees comprising only such as are
alive and healthy on the last day OF
October next succeeding Arbor
Day, upon which they shall have
been planted.
2. The competitor must count
his trees in the presence Of two wit.
nesses in the month of October,
counting only those which are alive)
and make affidavit before a Justice
of the Peace as to the following
matters:
A.-Whole number of trees plant
ed last Arbor Day and now alive.
B.-Name and number of each
kind.
Glow planted.
D.-How cultivated.
Cost Of plantation.
F.-Ayerage size of each species.
And such affidavit shall 10 os:t:-
fed to by both witnesses of the
count, and the Justice OF the Peace
shall certify to the identity and
credibility Of the competitor and
his witnesses.
8. All trees planted to compete
for these premiums are to be for
permanent belts or groves, and not
to sell, except as they may be ncces-
sarily trimmed out when they may
have become crowded.
T.. The afidavits prescribed
above to be forwarded to the Sccre-
tary, whose address is appended
below. by the first of December next
after the count of trees.
>. No clubbing or joining of
timber plantations upon lands own
ed by different persons, for the pur-
pose of securing these premiums,
will be allowed.
6. Premiums will be awarded
at next Timber Meeting after re-
ceipts of affidavits, and paid to or
der of party to whom awarded.
JAS. L. BuDD, Secretary,
Shellsburg, Benton Co., Iowa.
For the purpose of obtaining sta
tistics of timber planting for public
information all persons not compe-
ting for the above premiums, who
may make tree plantations upon Ar
Dor Day are requested to furnish
the following points of information
to the Secretary in return for which
they will be given a copy of the
Transactions Of this Society:
l. Acres planted or rods Of trees
in line planted.
2. Kinds and number of each
kind.
5. How many lived and grew
well.
4. Cost Of plantation.
To which append name and adj
dress.
NOTES ON PROCURING, KEEPING AND
PLANTING SEEDS AND TREES.
Evergreens and larch should al.
ways be procured from reliable nur-
serymen, and the trees should have
been previously transplanted. Avoid
exposure of the roots to sunshine or
drying winds. Plant larch early.
The seed of ash leaf maple and
green ash may be gathered as late
as March LIST, and sometimes later,
and if inoistened q little by spread
ing thinly on the ground, and SO
freezing a little, will be almost sure
to grow. Keep seeds covered while
upon the ground. These seeds, and
indeed all other tree seeds, should
be planted early. These two trees
grow quite generally upon the bot
toms and borders of streams, but
they will thrive in any locality in
Iowa.
Silver maple and red maple, both
known as soft maple, and -all the
elms, ripen their seeds in May or
June, and their seeds must be plant
ed soon after they are ripe or they
will fail to grow. Young cotton