The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-04-29
Hints On Tree Planting.

Acrc young man, I have Il word
fer you. You are 81 young farmer,
just begun on 50 acres Of fine prairie
land; yen have ten or twenty acres
i.>wo';: and are going to break ten
OF l"'ooty acres more after you have
sc4':".! the first. Have you made a
sys:>":::.%tic ll.an Of your proposed
work on you: :ara,? You intend it
tor . i::rtn 10 spend your days on.
,,o;'" wife end children will call it
ho::>:>. 1t is the best place in the
wc@l;! 10 You and t;.ern, Cor it is yours.
Frr Us reason, and from the further
tact >;,::t YOU wish to make it one of
tie u:,:5 places in the world in the
eyes ). yca: ncighbors, you wish to
,j>:> u j~~;ir power TO make it profit.
nhi" :&a fam, and pleasant and beau
tii,'i rs u home, you wish to begin
i;o5 - arrange ior what in the future,
:n,i il t4c nc: rest future possible,
will :a:'ii=c it Il profitable and glorious
OH homestead.
'<ow permit me to give you u few
suggestions that are based upon the
observation of many years, and in
many places. When you begin your
'''ea'zi',s this season., commence at the
outside Of your land at the southwest
corner, ;sld break four rods wide on
The west side of your farm, it's whole
ic.tytI. They break the same width
Sic w;.c|c length of the north side of
yo,:T ..;;":,22, and if your farm is the
>:.,>:u..3n shaped so acres (90xl60
ro.'~i sou have six acres 5roke~
VIM 10 I thus suggest the break
ir. Il :::!c', q narrow stri p round your
ia,':1. t!.:,t viii cost so much to fence !?
'l'h'ere IS no objection to your break
ing css much more us you can, but
this ouch | recommend to he done,
surely; because [ would have you
}l;eut it TO trees for Il wind break !;
you can begin and plant two rows
or more ii you c;en~~aud not so in
tlebt-the first season Of willows and
cotton wood cuttings, putting them
in rows three and half or four feet
apart and two feet apart in the rows,
setting those Of the second row
opposite tue space Of the first row.
Afterwards cult ate and mulch with
straw. You raise corn or potatoes
between c;lci. row for II year OF two,
which, wall help insure cultivation.
But anyway, Go not fail to cultivate
them. chen year after year add
rows OF trees rs fast as you can find
time 10 plant and care for them.
Each 70 v set some different variety
OF trees. vou can have fifteen rows Of
trees in this four rod wide stripround
vour f:a,?:, and if you can't get fifteen
varieties Of trees, you can get six or
eight. Among them plant few rows
Of evergreens, any hardy kinds that
Won find the most convenient to get
or buy.
would especially recommend the
European ]crcll, and the Scotch pine,
because they arc very hardy and
rapid growers even on poor soils. OF
the olh,r varieties | would recon-
mend the so; maple, the elm, white
:.s, and the box elder for Northe III
Minnesota. Do not say, let them who
:.re :ti,lo TO do this, do It.; that you
can't yucc sach q strip, you can, but
you need not fence such i narrow
strip ONLY; yoI can have your fields
30 ,it;,,t;c,l that this fence w Ii
include them. Your leavcl head
when you SCI it to thinking and PLAN
hing c:.n get, with Il little expense of
fence in addition to that necessary
for your fields, a fence all round the
fields and the strip for wind break.
30 this, and 10 it this summer, do
not put it off until next year, you
want the timber growing. .@.@r !!
IN five years you have belt Of
timber tll,t will brcak all the wind.
OF your fields, and shields your