Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-02-23
IOWA STATE HoRTICULTURALs so.
ClETY.
List of Premiums Offered for the En-.
couragement Of Forest Tree Planting.

Inc fOllOWlng premiums are Of
fered to encourage the planting OF
trees in permanent timber plantations
or belts; the number Of trees living
to be ascer,ained by actual count be-
tween the 18th of September and
the 10th of October, 1877. The
awards of the premiums to depend
upon full compliance with the rules
appended to the schedule Of premi-
unis:
For the greatest number of spec
les planted in groves; intrinsic
value of species considered :. $40 90
Second gratest number. ...... 25 90
Third greatest number. ...... 10 90
For the greatest number of Ever
greens and Larch in plantations
or belts -. 90 90
Second greatest number -. Is 90
Third greatest number. ......... 10 on
For the greatest number of Ash
Trees. 20 90
Second greatest number. .... Is 90
Third greatest numher .......... III w
For the greatest number of Nut
Bearing Trees, including Oaks. 20 %
Second greatest number. -. Is co
Third greatest number ...... 10 90
For the greatest number OF Black
Wild Cherry, Elm, Box. Elder
and Birch. ..........2 20 90
Second greatest number =. IS %
Third greatest number. ........ 10 90
For the greatest number of Cotton
wood, Eastwood, Willow, Maple
and otheI soft wooded trees -. 20 On
Second greatest number go. -. Is %
Third greatest number. ...... 10 90
For the greatest number of Honey
Locust, from seed grown on
thOrnless trees is preferably -. 20 90
Second greatest number. Is 90
Third greatest numb. 10 90
REGULATIONS.
lst.-Persons competing for prem
iums must designate the class for
which they compete, as, for greatest
number of Soft Wooded Trees, great
est number Evergreens, Larch, etc.
A plantation may consist of a single
variety enumerated, or any number
of the kinds mentioned.
I'd. Additional plantations must
be made tor each separate entry for
premiums. In other words, a person
awarded a premium in one class,
will not be entitled to premium on
same trees in another class.
Sd. The plantations competing
for these premiums must be made
with rooted seedlings or plants, with
the exceptions here mentioned: OF
Willows and soft wooded trees,
growing readily from cuttings, strong
cuttings may be used. In the class
of nut bearing trees, White Walnut
Black Walnut and Oak may be start
ed from seed where wanted to re.
main. -...-......
4th. All trees, seeds and cuttings
must be planted in permanent timber
plantations or belts, in the spring Of
1877, except where parties tailed in
getting a sufficient stand in 1875,
they may replant in 1877. The plan
tations may not be made at q greater
! distance than four feet each way;
when counted, there must be at least
two thousand trees to each acre,
The plantations competing for pre-.
MUM must be on one farm, but need
not be contiguous.
5th. The competitor must have
his trees counted by two disinterest.
ed witnesses between the 18th OF
September and the 10th Of October,
1877, counting only those that are
alive at that time. After counting,
competitor must make affidavit be-
tore Justice of the Peace or Notary
Public as to the following facts:
A. Whole number of trees in per-
manent grove, planted in spring of
1877. and now alive, or if it ia re-
! planted grove, planted In 1879, state