The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-08-20

Work the ground the same as for corn
and keep the weeds down The closer
the trees are planted the straighter they
will grow and be free from the lower
limbs.
THE WALNUT.
The walnut is favorite free and
very useful. Itgrows admirably in rocky
ground and thrives best in land with
yellow subsoil To prepare the land,
furrOw out as if for corn and drop the
waInuts one in a hill, four feet apart
Cover lightly with hoe or plow. The
seed should be planted soon after it
falls from the tree, and is best dropped
with the hull on. Ifthis cannot be done
bury the seed-but by all means allow
it to dry. Seed is also good dropped in
February and covered in the spring
The frost cracks the walnut shell, and
tEs. snrout will start out soon after being
covered in April or May. Forty acres of
walnut timber will yield the farmer i'll
ten years more than if the land is plant
ed every season in grain. The trees
will grow the FIRST year ten or twelve
inches, the second thirty, and the third
year, four or five feet. The first and
second year the ground may be planted
between the rows with potatoes or corn
and it will not hurt the young trees,
walnut striking deep root and draw
ing its sustenance from the sub-soil.-
To make the trees bear nuts early dig
under and cut the tap root. Fruit trees
that do not bear may also be made to
bear by cutting their main or tap roots.
Mr.. Hollenbeck has grove of forty
acres of walnut planted in 1865 and the
trees average % inches in circumference
and are 25 feet high, Many of them
bore nuts four years after planting and
six years after planting the trees had a
peck OF nuts each. Three bushels Of
walnuts with the hulls on will plant an
acre four feet apart, or one and three
quarter bushels hulled will plant the
same amount of land.
SUGAR-MAPLE.
Mr.. Pinney, an experienced tree
grower, says an acre of sugar naples at
twenty five years of age will average
one foot in diameter and produce 1000
pounds OF sugar annually. When the
trees measure twenty INCHES they will
give co, 600 feet of lumber worth s., 500,
besides a great deal of fuel. A pecnli-
arity of this tree Is, its body increases
in size faster than the top. Itcan there
fore be planted very closely Two hun
dred trees will grow on an acre. Maple
seed ripens in October and should be
planted in rows the same as ash, but
not thickly. After planting allow the
tree to stand two years in the NURSERY
and then transplant to ground where it
is TO grow permanently.
SOFT MAPLE.
The soft maple in its wild state, is an
uneouth and scraggy tree, when grown
closely in cultivated grove, is much
improved in appearance and most use
full tree. ! have seen numerous patches
well shaped, and eight and ten feet high
at three and four years of aga. In No
noma county Iowa, maple trees, seven
years old from the seed, were large
enough to make three ten foot rails, and
an acre yielded 3, 600 rails. This timber
is always in great demand for manufae-
turing purposes. 1t beats the walnut
three years in a growth of ten years.
The seeds ripen II June, and sheald be
sown in mellow ground as soon as they
fall Plant one and a half inches deep
with drills, in rows twenty inches apart.
They will come up in six days. Keer
the weeds out until the plants get good
start. The first year they viii grow from
eighteen to twenty inches. They should
be transplanted the next spirng and SCI
out 2,700 to the acre. They will grow
four or FIVE feet ths second year. A soft
maple planted in 1861 is now forty-three
inches in circumference four feet from
the ground.
| ELMS.
The white elm is fine forest tree, aui
the demand for this wood is every yeal
increasing as the old stock disappears.-
Plough handles, cheese boxes, chairs
and many manufactured articles ar,
made from this wood. A field of white
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