Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-01-12
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Plant Trees.

The St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
Company, from the first, instituted a
system OF tree planting along the
line of their road. Men of experl-
ence were put i'll charge of the work,
and the following propositions are
made public, the result of expert
ments made:
l. The farmer on the bleakest
portions of our treeless regions, can,
with less ready money than it would
take to buy breaking pillow, surround
his stock-yard and buildings with a
wind break within five years, which
will protect him as ettectually rs
though he was in the middle of the
big woods.
2. A crop of trees can be grown
as surely, and, in proportion to its
value, with far less expense than 4
crop of corn,
3. Ten acres properly planted in
timber, and prope' ly cultivated, will
in five years supply fuel for Il family
in great abundance, and also fencing
for farm of 100 acres.
4. That the most worthless lands
of our treeless regions can, through
the intervention of a tree planter, be
sold for 500 per acre within twenty
nine years.
5. That the net profits on quar-
tet-section Of prairie, properly pre-
pared, planted and cultivated with
forest trees, will, within ten years,
exceed the net profits Of ten quarter
sections of wheat
6. A single cottonwood seed,
though smaller than grain Of mus
tard, can, by intelligent cultivation,
be developed INTO cord Of tircwood
within 20 years.
I. That any young man of mus
cular development, and good "horSe
sense" can accomplish these results,
providing always that he is not in
too great haste to get rich.
Do not neglect the pigs and leave
them to "root hog or die" during
the winter The less roofing they
have to do now the better off they
will be in the spring. Help them
TO grow through the winter months
and they will be able to help them
selves through the balance of
the year. DO not allow them to oc-
cupy the same straw for bedding
longer than Il week at 4 time; burn
up the old leaves and replace them
with fresh bedding; this will prevent
them from becoming lousy. a bed
in an open lot away from shed Of
any kind, and where the rays of the
sun can reach it, is preferable except
in severe weather, It. will secure
them from the dust that is sure to ac-
cumulatc in a bed under shelter
San ounce OF prevention is worth a
pound of cure" Keep them clean
and well provided with fresh water
and plenty Of food, and you will have
no occasion to look for a receipt for
hog cholera.
1t is only a few years since swine
breeders were vieing with each 9TH
er for the greatest weight of carcass;
but this is changed. Hogs that will
weigh five hundred pounds are sold
at a less price per pound than those
of two hundred and fifty to three
hundred pounds. The market in
England has long favored light
weights. London is supplied with
pigs Of less than two hundred pounds
weight. And this tendency of the
market to pigs well fattened but of
small weight is just what the farmer
should encourage, for it is exactly in
the line of his interest. 1t costs
more to make the second one hun
dred pounds ola pig than the first,
and still more to make the third one
hundred pounds, and SO every pound
aided becomes more expensive
Wuiiace's -Nomthiy.