Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-03
Planting Timber.

In our opinion it is not only most
sensible thing for every individual far
mer to do something every spring in the
way of planting timber trees. but it is
even more than that. It is patriotic
duty, for the timber supply is so rapidly
wasting away that its serious need viii
soon be felt in parts Of the country. A
few years ago black walnut was one of
our commonest deciduous trees in the
West. Ii grew along every river and
creek bottom, and in many sections was
about the cheapest lumber one could
procure. But it is already SO scarce that
mahogany, formerly a rare wood, is now
used for many kinds of inside finishing.
It will be but few years, at the present
rate of use, before the black walnut en-
tirely disappears from our forests. But
we began this article merely as prelude
to copying two or three items from our
exchanges. The first is the following.
which speaks for itself:
A black-walnut grove that was planted by a
Wisconsin farmer about twenty years ago ON
some waste land, recently sold for $27, 900. The
trees are now from sixteen to twenty inches
through.
This item tells what the enterprising
farmers of Kansas and Nebraska are
doing in this direction
The Timber Culture act has had the effect Of
doubling the timber area in Nebraska and Kan
sas during the past twelve years. At present
nearly every well-ordered farm has an outlying
timber tract of from thirty to forty acres.
The following is part Of an article in
the Zowa Homestead, from the pen of
the Hon. Horace Everett, Council Bluffs,
Iowa:
have almost been ashamed to plant anv
more black walnut after that romantic news
paper report of the $27, 900 sale, but, never
theless, I have grown in the old way and hope
one day that my children may realize the story
told only twenty years too soon. Last fall I
purchased 100 bushels of black walnuts and
commenced planting Oct. 1, and kept it up
els left over, which put out this spring. It
was quite slow business to plant, and the
last ten bushels were we'll sprouted before we
could get them in, but as they were covered as
fast as dropped they are coming up very well.
We came very near losing my entire gather
ing OF nuts, and. as it was from cause never
read, 1 shall give it for the benefit Of your
readers. AS the nuts were purchased they
We're thrown into small new cellar 10x8 for
safe keeping against my neighbors' hogs until
my planting, ground was prepared. One hun
dred bushels were thus stored, when, in about
eight days, on visiting my farm, I found a
strong smell pervading the house. the cellar
full Of steam, and on opening the pile of nuts
found the heat at quite high temperature.
My men at once took them out and spread them
on the ground from four to six inches thick,
where they remained covered with straw till
they were planted. A few days longer the nuts
would have been entirely worthless, and, in
fact, I was in great doubt as to planting them
at all Another lot of sixty bushels I had
stored about one foot deep in an out-building,
and on examining them also found they were
in heated state, and would doubtless have
been ruined if they had not been removed and
scattered on the ground. It is my impression
that many Of the nuts were ruined by the fer
mentation and heat of the shucks, as they are
not coming up as we'll as they otherwise would.
think this shows it will not do to store them
in pits four to five inches deep Chicago
Herald.