Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-03-19
THE FARM AND HOME.
HINTS ON THE STARTING OF
a TIMBER PLANTATION.
Growing Trees From seed-Roads aud
Road Making-How to Make Swiss
Cream Chssse-The Pig Pen
and House Hints.
How 20 start In Timber Growlng.

dertaking but have found IL a sim
pie matter, so far as | have had OK
perlence, and will tell just how so
about il writes Waldo /. Brown in
the Country Gentleman.
have only grown three kinds OF
seedlings-locust catalpa ana soft
maple but think that many other
kinds could be- grown from seed rs
easily. Different kinds OF tree seeds
will require different treatment and
II one is to become a good forester. he
will need to study and experiment
with seeds Of many varieties OF trees.
If nuts are 70 be planted they must DC
gathered in the fall and kept moist
through the winter ard some II not
all OF them, require freezing. Locust
seed must be scalded To insure II TO
grow. The seed is shaped like clover
seed. but is about as large as radlsh
seed. and exceedingly hard. so that Il
is almost impossible to bite one OF
them open. do not use water quite
at the boiling point for scalding Il
but pour pint OF cold water into
teakettlelul which is boiling and then
| pour the water over the seed 10 u
/ tight vessel and let II stand till II
coolS when a part OF the seed will be
| swollen 10 about four times the natu-
raj size. Usually 1t will be less than
/ one-fourth, and often not more than
/ tenth OF the seed that swells from the
first scaldiug. The swollen seeds must
be separated from the other seed. hot
water applied to the rest Of the seed
second time. and often lind it ncees-
sary TO apply the hot water a. many
as five or six times before all the seed
wilLswelL
This swollen seed grows as readily
as corn and comes up as quickly. The
best time to plant Is early Ia May and
II the weather should DO uuiayorable
for planting when the seed Il pre-
pared il can be kept for week or
more by spreading il an inch thick on
the cellar bottom. ana covering ii with
damp cloth. spot OF rich clean
land should be selected on which 10
SOW the seed. II should BE- covered
about an inch deep, and tho rows
should be far enough apart " admit
OF the use OF tho cultiyutor. The
young plants should BE- thoroughly
worked all summer, and II not too
thick in the row they will grow 70 tho
height OF three feet or more and do
velOp large roots. You may leave
four 20 SIX plants 10 the foot Of row.
These seedlings should always be
trausplauted TO the plantation AZ ono
year old. Plow and harrow until the
land is in good order. then with two
, horse pillow open turrow where tho
rev Is to stand; this furrow ought 70
DO deep and wide enough so that no
hole need be dug. but the tree simply
held upright in the furrow, while the
earth Is drawn 10 the roots. With q
boy 10 hold the tree and two mon,
: one with hoe and tho other with q
light shovel II the land Is In good or.
, der two thousand or moro can b. sol
out in a day spent a good deal OIL
| labor in pruning the first groves
. | planted. but have since found thnt II
was labor worse than wasted. for wher
! planted close. as they should be-. so ~
, to shade each other. the side branche:
die and drop of. leaving muct
: smoother trunk than II they are cu
/ OF when green. This applies 10 thu
locust but am not sure that II woulc
J to naples. The plantation should al,
ways be cultivated for ono year. AMI
unless the trees spread so that tn
a thorns are In the way II Is better TO dc
1t two years, and would advise thi
with maple groves.
. 1t Is n good plan IL you find tn
: trees are not starting up with goot
shaped trunks 70 cut them back I,
4 the ground one or even two year
> after planting aud then they will b
we'll rooted and will throw up
:, straight vigorous shoot In mos
r neighborhoods the spare naples whic
are taken out in thinning can be sol
for shade trees for more than enoug
Il TO pay the entire expense OF the plan
! tation. have utilized row OF locus
trees fifty rods long along the sout
? side of permanent pasture field for
: fence. These trees were set out /
4 1881, and for six years past by use {
: o single wire and some hedge brusE
have made perfect fence to tur
:, horses and cattle and some Of th
I, trees are now large enough to spli
= into two good posts, and still Gu
another from second cut The tree
!, we're set four feet apart but II wer
putting out single row again wouI
:, set them two feet apart.
The soft naples are grown in N
nursery tho same as the locust but III
seed is to be planted as soon as gatt
y cred Tho soft maple seed ripper
g. about the middle Of May. and as 500
y as It begins TO fall, may be plantet
- and comes up at once.
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