The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-03-31
URGES FARMERS
TO PLANT TREES
Governor Elrod Issues His An.
nual Arbor Day Procla-
nation.
HE NAMES APRIL 2 |
Every Farmer Should Plant at Leasf
One Row of Willow Cuttings in
Soft, Low Ground-School
Grounds Need Trees.

Pierre, S. D., March Ex-Governor
E,rod has issued the following arbor
day proclamation:
With pleasure and with the hope
that more trees will be planted by the
people of South Dakota this year than
In any former year, |, Samuel II. FL
rod, governor of the state of South Da-
kota, do hereby designate Friday, April
81, 1905, as Arbor day.
"One swallow does not make a sum
mer nor one shade tree an ideal home,
but farmers homes without trees are
like shoes without stockings, like boots
without straps, like meals without
drink. Farmers homes without trees
are only stopping places. The latent
influences of trees are refining, civil
izing, enobling. Without them, sum-
mer is a barren existence and winter a
bleak and unwelcome guest
The foregoing from the pen of Mr..
Wilkinson, of Belle Fourche, S. D., In
the Dakota Farmer, Is so much in point
that I gladly make 1t a part of this
proclamation.
Kinds of Trees Desirable.
Secretary Wilson's forestry bureau
recommends the following trees for
South Dakota: White Spruce, green
ash white elm and eVergreenS, and
the writer of these lines recommends
the Carolina poplar. He has been set
ting out these trees for sixteen years
and some of them now measure more
than five feet around. They are being
extensively planted in cities and towns
throughout the United States on ac-
count of their rapid growth. They
are perfectly hardy here.
Every farmer should plant at least
one row of willow cuttings in soft,
low ground, from east to west. They
will soon grow into a thing of beauty
and Will be useful for wood, for wind
break and for shelter for stock.
Too Little Time Used
Too little time and pains are used ii.
setting out and caring for trees. When
| setting tree spread out the roots to
level with their starting point at the
tree and work the fine soil in between
the rootlets with your hands
A large per cent. of all the trees that
will be set out in South Dakota this
season will be destroyed by stock, etc,
because they are not protected by box
| ing or fencing.
The legislature recently passed the
Lightner bill requiring trees to be
planted around each school house.
/ School officers, teachers and = school
children are urged to do their full share
to make the lazy success.
School Grounds Demand It.
1t will be most pleasing to see the
| little white school houses of our state
surrounded by green, thrifty, growing
trees, and let us hope that the next leg
islature will provide that the flag of
our country shall float from each and
every school house within the bound
aries of our commonwealth during
school hours. Look at the picture; the
/ little white school house in the grove of
green, adorned with the flag that
! Washington designed.
| In brief, citizens of South Dakota.
plant trees. They will live and grow If
properly planted and cared for, bless
ing mankind after those who planted
them have passed from this life to the
better life which the Advise Father has
provided for his children
In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and caused the great
seal of the state of South Dakota to be
affixed. Done at the capitol in the
city of Pierre, this 18th day of March
A. d. 1905. Samuel H. Elrod.
By the governor:
D. D. Wipf. Secretary of State.