The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-01-14

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they be planted twelve feet apart each 4
way. We can break strip one or two
burrows wide every twelve feet and |
plant in them, and break the interven-
ing strips and put it in other crops IS
we can get around to it.
Now, Mr.. Editor, have no patience
with this sort Of nonsense. You can't
raise timber in any such mongrel style.
You may succeed in raising few short
bodied, big-topped shade trees, but you
are not going to make railroad ties.
bridge timber, fencing. or much ire
wood, by any such lop-eared, shift
less methods. If you intend to
OF have any desire to grow timber
worth one hundred dollars an acre.
within ten years from date Of planting,
don't commence with row Of trees,
row of potatoes, row of corn, a row OF
beans, and then another row of trees.
If you must have succotash, don't mix
in forest trees, give it separate patch.
If the succotash tree planters don t
Xix my style, they are under no oblisa-
tons to follow it. :.
To raise timber 'swhat is timber,
straight as gun barrel and forty feet
to the limbs, dense growth is indis-
pensible. After three or four years
YOU will find by planting four feet
apart each way, that this first indis-
pensible prerequisite condition of sue
cess has been obtained, and that now
you can begin to ''thin out using
your own common sense and judgment
in the gradual thinning out process
leaving the straight, thrifty trees, and
,, from time to time converting those less
promising into fence poles and fire
wood. After five years, ten acres
properly managed will yield fence poles
and fire wood ''till you can't rest. !
You will now find out you must have
roads through your timber. ChoI
them out.
!, In planting. stick row Of white vii
:, low or cottonwood, wherever you vii
: need wagon road. When large enough
: ;. for fencing or fuel which will be il
four or five years-chop this row dow
clean to the ground Don't be afrai'
: of hurting it. 1t will sprout up ant
: grow the following season, and the tiftl
- year will yield more than double tn
!, wood it did at the first chopping. Y
y course you must use your own natura
; sense Of the fitness Of things, in plant
- - ing and thinning. Trees like the whit
= oak, ash. sugar maple, larch, and a
: others designed to stand lifetime
.e should be allowed on the original ca
- culation, plenty Of room for their fu
- development, say twelve feet apart eac
~ way, which will give about three hui
- dred full grown trees per acre.
- course you will keep thinning out fro1
time to time rs these permanent tre'
, become larger. The proceeds
this thinning out process vi
more than pay the entire cost OF tt
whole work, and at the end Of fiv
: years leave yeu with grove OF timb'
=, = worth not less than $50 per acr
~ which is just SO much net profit. a
bound to convince the prairie farm
that he can raise crop Of trees Wit
If more certainty than he can raise cr'
- of wheat or corn, and with less e
ST pense. And now predict that Il
ur average prairie farmer will in . Il
m, wears think no more Of Planting t
% acres Of timber than he would OF plan
l ing the same number of acres of cor
til There are plenty Of cottonwood Al
cd, white willow trees which have be
ose grown in Minnesota from the cuttin
no within fifteen years. that will now ma
~ half cord of wood per tree. You
eas readily raise 800 Of them on.
st. acre. which would amount to 81
tly cords per acre, which at 81 per cord
ing the stump is $50 per acre for stun
eat age. ] can show you plenty OF cote
ate wood trees in Minnesota which ! M
en-, known from the ground up, which hi
TO received no cultivation, now stand
ma from fifty to sixty feet high and 'r
Ct sixty to eighty inches in circumiere
to at the butt. Such trees will yield ne
,es. ly or quite cord Of wood to each II
ION This dose will do for the present.
lot will endeavor from time to time to G
etc. you an occasional dose as the sy'
Ism, toms may indicate. Yours truly.
DIST LEONARD B. Hopes