The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-09-27

mel. suitable fdf planting when the seed
issneadK ituoan be, spread an inch deep
NJ Aiiaiibv n slfsys and covered with a
EyaeWm qauhaHa kept for several days;
/ The cultivation in The nursury should
|AesSleak and thot6f6h. When one year
odd, set out in the plantation. The
planting should be done as early in the
spring as the land can be put in good
Qpnaitisps a PlaN deep and harrow
and FOL fGg iAsll1, and then lay it off
Rith tic - pl 81 msking a deep,
open fprFaRiS Mbe lafants at the
desired distance ths q aud then have a
boy TO. hold the tree % the right posi-
ton while two men epht he earth to
the roots. If very mellow this can be
done with hoes, Ssbut a light, long
handled spade will be the best nipple
ment for the work, / make these
spades for garden work BY cutting down
common long-handled gravel-shovel
to the required size.
In my first plantations I set the trees
four feet apart each way, Intending to
tlli1 to eight feet blythe time they were
SIX 81 seven wears Ga but j find that
often the tree wish to leave Is an in
rows eight feet apart and two feet in
the row. They will grow as close as
this until large enough for bean poles or
speaIl fence stakes ,shna when we begin
to thin it gives chance to select the
best tees. It.takesy about two Thousand
seven hundred trees to plant an acre
in this way and We expect. toileave six
hundred to grow into posts, and think
the thihnihgso will pay for the cost Of
planting, care and the rent of land
until the plantation is in grass and the
trees out of the way of calves, which will
be n fanr years fr9mp planting. The
tnhes should b cultivated forone or two
wears, after which all the attention they
VIII need is little trimming 10 remove
Iisurphs branches. ! II estimate the cost
of an acrea0f locust, timber as follows:
llplantsgs fifteere dollars; preparing the
pruning for. four years, ten dollars; add
ITO this rent of land for fouryears and
you have the sactuall cost. After four
Pyearssthe lapd should produce grass
enough To pay asfair iaterest on the in
vestihent. @MMMfi AMsMst0Me
l estimate the Trimmings would be
worth. one thousand bean poles at one
cent each, less twenty-five cents per
hundred for cutting, seven dollars and
fifty cents; gone ,th0Nsand fence stakes,
at four cents met, i$49a A have put the
price OF plants at less than the nursury-
men ask for therny as the regular price
is eight dollars per thousand, but in a
favorable season they can be grown for
half what name, and / would be will
l. ing to contract to furnish them at five
dollars per thousand. A pound of seed
contains about twenty-five thousand
seeds and If even one-fourth of them
grow it will give q large number Of
plants from one dollars worth of seed.
If the trees do not make a uniform start
or straight growth the frstyear | advise
that they be cut back to the ground the
next spring after planting, as the roots
will be strong and well established and
the plants will make strong and
straigat Growth and give much better
shanN trees. The plantation should be
suwn Ia grass the second or third spring
after planting. / have never handled
trees that were sol hardy as the locust
and with ordinary care not one out of 9
thousand will fail to grow.-K. 2.
Brow7s, in NJ Y. Tribune.