The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-03-24
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In o#pplnion it is not only a most
senslblk hing for every Individual far
mer t9ksomething every spring in the
way OF R,snting timber trees. but il is
even MI than that. 1t is a patriotic
duty, tr7he timber supply is so rapidly
wastln sway that its serious need Will
soon bsfit in parts of the country. A
few ye& ago black walnut was one of
our coIusnest deciduous trees in the
West. grew along every river and
creek bSom, and IN many sections was
about Z cheapest lumber one could
procure But it ia already so scarce that
mahogy, formerly rare wood. is now
used fonany kinds of inside finishing.
1t viii but few years, at the present
rate of-e, before the black walnut en-.
tirely dtsIlears fresn onr forests. But
we beg1< is srtjrle merely ns a pralnde
to copySskwo or Three items from our
exchange The first is the following,
which speks for itself:
black.wlnyt grove that was planted by
Wisconsin lrIer about twenty years ago on
some waste an( recently sold for $27, ,0O0 The
trees are NV rom sixteen to twenty inches
through.
This lem dis what the enter1Jrising
farmers of hnsas and Nebraska are
doing in .his irection
The Timber dture act has had the effect of
doubling te tiper area in Nebraska and Kan
sas durinethe st twelve years. At present
nearly ever wrordered farm has an outlying
timber trst ofrom thirty to forty acres
The fdlopg IS part Of an article In
the Iotoa H1aestedd, from the pen of
the Hon.Hace Everett, Council Bluffs,
Iowa
have ant been ashamed to plant any
more blaG pnut after that romantic news
paper reprof the S27, 900 sale but, never
theless, e grown IN the old way and hope
one dAy TINY children may realize the story
told only snty years too soon. Last fall /
purchased bushels OF black walnuts and
commencplanting Oct !, and kept it up
until the und was frozen. Had sixty bush
els left O, which put out this spring. It
was quitsslow business to plant, and the
last ten hels were well sprouted before we
could geem in, but as they were covered as
fast as dped they are coming up very well.
We cayery near losing my entire gather
ing Of nJand, as 1t was from cause ] never
read, 4 give it for the benefit OF your
readers-s the nuts were purchased they
were tbn into small new cellar 1913 for
safe keg against my neighbors' hogs until
my plaH ground was prepared One hun
dred bus were thus stored, when. IN about
eight ds on visiting my farm, found a
strong Il peryading the house. the cellar
full of sn, and on opening the pile of nuts
found theat at quite a high temperature.
My meronce took them ont and spread them
on the and from four to six inches thick,
where T remained covered with straw till
they wolanted A few days longer the nuts
would been entirely worthless, and, in
fact, l in great doubt as to planting them
at ALL lother lot OF sixty bushels l had
stored at one foot deep in an out-building,
and on mining them also found they were
III a hei state, and would doubtless have
been rUd if they had not been removed and
scattern the ground. 1t is my impression |
that msof the nuts were ruined by the fer
mentatRnd heat of the shucks, as they are !
not con up well as they otherwise would. /
I thinks shows it viii not do TO store them |
in pits II to five inches deep Chicdoo |
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