The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-06-29

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assertion; yet as it involves the problem
of show to eat your cake and keep. II
too" we will give it moments consld-
Grafton:
The Willow is unquestionably heavy
feeder. 1t draws its rations from the
earth and air After brief infancy OF
two or three years it feeds itself, and in
performing this necessary function. is 1t
any disparagement that it robs the weeds
and grass within reach and absolutely
starves them out?
Admitting. for the sake of argument,
that which is not fact, that nothing will
grow within two rods Of row of White
Willow. let us see if the White Willow
does not actually pay better rent for
the ground occupied than any OF the or
binary products of the farm. Giving the
opponents of the White Willow all they
claim, strip of ground four roes wide
for single row of Willow trees, run
this row along the north or west or any
other side of your quarter section, and 1t
takes four acres. Give this row OF Will
lows good cultivation for three years and
protection from fire and cattle, and in
seven years you have wind break sure.
You ough- to have fence, but if, as
there probably are, some short gaps IL
it, close them up with wire, or by cut
ting few OF the surplus poles and pla-
cling them across the gaps.
But if you are not satisfied with COM
plete and perfect wind break. and CRATE
tul shade and better fence than the av-
erage of farm fences, and still Degrudge
the four acres occupied by the Willows,
why then close the account by cutting
them down or grubbing them out. You
can count on more tirewood and fence
poles than YOU can haul in 500 wagon
loads.
The account then stands as follows:
WHITE WILLOWS TO RUsTICUs, DR..
To use OF acres years as 50 per
acre per annum, sS4 w
Cost of emitting and planting. say 90
Cost OF cultivation years w
By one hundred loads fire wood
at one dollar per load on the
stump, elV"
By the time you have worked up this
100 loads into stove wood and have
wood pile at your door that makes every
woman in the nsighborhood wish she
had married you instead of the one she
did. YOU will conclude not to grub out
the stumps, and in less than five years
YOU can cut another 100 loads from the
old stumps.
Parasites: In the last few years a
small parasite in innumeraole hosts, has
attacked it and killed much Of it," just
50. No disputing it. But do you pro-
pose to be beat by parasites?
Parasites are becoming too common.
They attack not only the White Willow,
but the Box Elder, the noble cottonwood,
the humble but useful cunaut bush; even
the human form is not exempt, as polltl-
clans and tree planters well know. Id
.'innumerable hosts they have attacked
even the party of great moral ideas
and "killed mu n of it Even the
church is infested with parasites.
: Nothing is exempt. We must 90 TO
the parasites" clean 'em out; kill 'em
Fight the devil with fire.
A boy 10 years old will keep dow
, the parasites" on mile of Willow
fence. Oil OF cedar or Unguntum viii
protect the Politician or tree planter. Al
!. enlightened. conscientious and indepen
/, dent public opinion will clear them from
church and state. No, we don't propos
to be devoured by parasites
: Another writer says, ''you cannot rails
; an orchard inside an enclosure OF Whit
! Willow"
t In the fall of 1871. while canvassin
) the 18th senatorial district. called 0
4 the late Harrison Waldon,-betwee
: Rochester and Byron-found his orchar
i surrounded with magnificent Whit
i Willow wind break. from twenty-five
: forty feet high. dense. rank. luxuriant.
$ Every apple tree in that enclosure Gan
It there were hundred of them), was loads
l. with fruit. never ate larger. finer. NOR
IL lucious apples anywhere. | never woui
y attempt to grow an orchard until rs
q first surrounded it with some sort OF
wiud-break. Ii YOU don't like WIFI
Willow. try White Pine. Scotch Pin
IS Cottonwood. anything, SO You get an e
ar tectlve wind break. The rich man cs
l. plant the Larch, the Scotch or Viii
at Pine, the Arbor Vitae. and other valu
of Die varieties. but of necessity the poo
man must commence with somethiu
cheaper Nothing is cheaper than Il
White Willow, nothing more certain
grow. Il is emphatica.ly the poor mar
&c best friend. for a large portion OF {
te treeless region. No better than the c.
tonwood in many localities not as goo
III To all. let me say-p!ant the best tire
i'll your circumstances and locality admit {
ny Halt Loaf is better than none. and dor
in be afraid of anything God has given y
OF in the form of \ tree, not even the VIII
ne Willow As to fences. thew are but
re- relic of feudalism. Aside from the NJ
to essary corral they are \ nuisance
intolerable burden. an oppressive
.ly on the labor of the countrv-sud W
la eventually disappear.
ess In haste, yours truly,
lite l.. B. Hopes.
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