Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-04-04
Tree Planting.

As the time for tree planting is
rapidly approaching, we wish to
call the attention of owners of land
bordering on highways to the inn
portance of having y good line of
valuable timber trees the whole eX-
tent of their land. The expenses to
start with is very trifiing, The
trees can generally be had for the
taking them up in places where
they are not needed, but a better
way, better, because they are surer,
is to get them at the Nursery, grown
in the open grove or fields. Scarce
ly one in a hundred of nursery for
est trees, If properly set, will fail,
except in extreme seasons. The
Western States are just beginning
to appreciate this mode of growing
timber, by growing it, instead of
being obliged to import every foot
required for building or other pur-
poses; and the Legislature of Hi
nois has just passed law for its en-
couragement, giving a bounty of
ten dollars per wear, for three years,
for each acre planted and cultivated
that length of time. Timberis not
vet so scarce that such a law is re-
| quired in Ohio, but every observ ant
person can scarcely fail to notice
that the splendid forests are rapidly
falling before the demand for wood
and lumber, We have heard it es-
timated that i'll Lake county the de
Grease of forest or woodland is equal
annually to about ten per cent. At
this rate how many years will be
required to make the county al
most as destitute Of forest as the
Illinois prairies ? Owners of wood
land who are now wrecklesSly strip
ping their farms of timber for pres
ent gain, will find out their error,
perhaps, when too late Of course
the planting of roadside trees will
not remedy this serious evil to any
great extent, but it will help, as
well as add much to the beauty and
value of the premises and comfort
to the owners. We believe that the
best can be had at the nursery of
Messrs. .Storrs, Harrison & Co., at a
trifing expense. .r
Bound to Geta a Subscriber Any Way.
From the Detroit Free Press
He was once out on a jaunt IN the
township of white Oak, Ingham
county, sticking to every farmer un-
til he got his name and money, and
it so happened that he came to a
house where death had called a few
hours before. The farmers wife
was laid out, and the husbandman
and mis- children were grieving
over her loss when the editor knock
ed at the door. -.la-
"What's up ?" inquired the editor,
as he saw the farmers solemn counte-
nance before him.
"My wife is dead, replied the far
mer. .T T Il aa...- ..s -.
SIS that so ?" mused the editor, a
little disappointed. "Did she die
easy?"
dropped off like lamp"
"Did she say anything?"
"Not a word-just went right to
sleep like" -.
q didn't know" continued the
editor, with sad look on his face,
"but what she might have requested
you to subscribe for the Cascade,
which you know is the best paper
in the county, If you want it III
take your name right in, and under
the circumstances, l won't charge
you cent for the obituary noticen!'
The farmer hung off for a while,
but before the editor went away he
had two additional dollars in his
pocket, and had written out an oblt-
uary notice for publication in the
next issue, which the bereaved hus-
band pronounced ''mighty smart
place" ...a. '.--e.1. odd