The state herald., 1891-12-25
THE FARM AND HOME.
THE NECESSITY OF PLANT
mo FOREST TREES.
Practical Instruction on Setting Treas
One-Eyed Potato ssed-Get an
Early start-Farm and
Home Hints.

country Gentleman, whether for fruit.
tshade timber or protection, leads me
to advise the planting Of young, small
trees and that they be carefully culti-
waited for from ono to four years or
until they get u thrifty start. The
sooner young tree is established and
rooted where 1t is to grow the better.
have grown and planted several
thousand locust and soft maple trees
and would not take as a gift tree
that had stood In the nursery row un-
TIT two years old. l have also had
considerable experience Ia TRANSPLANT.
ing volunteer seedlings from the
woods and have found that trees two
or three inches In diameter and ten or
twelve feet high, are usually SO stunt
ed by transplanting as to require sew.
eral years to regain their thrift while
Seeding three feet high. which can
be lifted out Of the soil without break
ing Its roots is scarcely checked at
all in its growth.
1t pays TO set forest trees considcra.
6ly thicker than we want them to grow,
for this induces straight upward
growth. with long trunk; and with
some varieties. | know that when
planted in this way no trimming is re.
quired. for the side branches die and
drop of, leaving much smoother
trunk than II the branches had been
cut of. When first began planting
locust trees by the acre spent a good
deal OF time and labor In trimming,
but afterwards found that the labor
was worse than wasted. Another nd
vantage OF c.ose planting is, that In
thinning out your trees you can cut all
that are ill-shaped or imperfect, and
still have enough left SO that there
Will be no openings or vacancies.
have planted several acres OF black To-
Gust and soft (white) maple, and on the
first acre l set the trees four feet
apart each way my intention being,
as they grew to take out first every
other row. and later every other tree
from the remaining rows. When |
began thinning, / soon found that the
one tree OF the four which must be
left was often worthless and SO IN my
later paintings have put the rows
eight feet apart and sot the trees
three or four feet apart in the row;
and Then In thinning we leave the
best trees and rarely have too long a
vacancy. can now cut trees from a
locust grove eleven years planted,
large enough to make two posts ut the
butt and one above; and my first
planting OF white maple made OF one
year old Seeding trees in 1853. now
has trees two feet in diameter.
What l most regret is that did not
plant an acre or two OF sugar naples.
Such a grove Is highly ornamental.
and for this alone would add to the
value of any farm, and in twenty years
or less the trees will be large enough
to tap. II would be easy so to locate
them as to get the benefit Of a wind
break, and they would furnish a CRATE.
ful shade TO stock in summer. The
young seedlings abound in the wood
lots near, and one could In day or
two collect enough TO plant an acre.
A closely planted row OF them along
the north and west sides Of field or
farm would afford protection from
summer storms which would otherwise
lodge corn or wheat and also from
winter blasts which often kill out tho
wheat
The young trees should be gathered
from the woods In the fall, tied in
small bundles, 80 TO 100 in bundle.
and set In the ground six or cigh,
inches deeper than they grow In some
well drained. sheltered spot and then
protected with leaves. When spring
opens Rs soon ms tho land will work
well, plow and harrow until Il is In
nice order then with two horse plow
make deep furrow. passing along
two or moro times II necessary. Win,
you want 10 10 get tho furrow deep and
wide enough so that no digging will
be necessary TO SGT the trees, but the
roots can be put In the furrow and the
loose earth drawn TO them ana press .
cd down and the trees are ready To
grow. The most rapid way to set
these small seedlings Is for n boy to
hold tho trec upright with the roots In
tho furrow. and two men. ono with
light shovel and the other hoe. TO put
tho earth TO tho roots Before the Inst
Of tho earth is placed around tho tree,
II should be firmly pressed down with
the feet and then loose earth placed
above Two men and boy Gun set
out an acre OF trees In day In this
way.
When planting "A single row for n
wind -brenk. j should set them but ten
fcct apart 1t Is true that you cannot
grow grain near them after they at.
tain much growth but I believe II 10
bc also true thnt you can grow enough
moro on the remainder OF the field To
make good tho loss. and all that the
trees are worth will bo clear guin.
Undoubtedly for climatic ronsons
there should be nt once n systematic
planting OF trees begun. and as We
havo no department OF forestry here
~ they have In Europe, tho best
way TO call attention 10 tho matter
seems 10 bc through the agricultural
prcss II looks like n great undertake
Ing 10 attempt to start now forest
but when We undertake. II intelligent
ly. tho difficulties soon vanish. I am
glad TO DO able IN report TINT the
''boror" which Ave years ngo mp.
poured In such numbers IA to bid fair
10 destroy our locust plantations, dis.
appeared a'tor about two ycnrs; and
my last planting now four years old
seems 10 be entirely free from them
Al Eariy start.
You did not run fast enough"
said tho station agent 10 the pnsscn.
gcr who missed tho trnin. II ran
fast enough. but did not start soon
enough" said the passenger Ms soon
us he could got breath enough 10 re.
ply. When We 500 farmer dra wing
out manure while other farmers nrc