The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1907-04-20
Ian TREES
Start 4 Grove This Spring on Well Prepared
Land. Bush Fruits Are Also Perfectly Hardy
In This Country. State Law Provides for
Bounty on Tree Growing

49, ssSS
President ]. H. Worst Of the North
Dakota Agricultural college gives the
following excellent advice on the subject
of tree planting:
From experiments made at the Agri-
cultural college, it has been demon
strated that elm, white and green ash,
soft maple and box elder are perfectly
hardy in North Dakota. The soft maple,
however, should be planted in the midst
of other trees. There are other hardy
varieties of trees, such as the blackberry,
Carolina poplar, cottonwood, ETC., but the
two latter, while they do we'll in single
rows. should never be planted in, large
groves. They require too much sum
light to thrive where planted thickly and
consequently die young.
Suitable trees for planting forests can
be obtained from reliable nurserymen
tor from $500 to $500 per thousand.
When planting young trees their roots
should never be allowed to become dry
for single moment.
Before planting trees, the ground
should be deeply plowed and thoroughly
dragged. Plant one way, in straight
rows, eight feet apart. The trees should
be set two feet apart in the row. Any
number of combinations of trees can be
made but the following is as good as any:
Tree No. elm; 2, box elder; :, white
ash; q, box elder; $, soft maple; 6, box
elder; z, green ash; 8. box elder; 9,
elm again. repeating the above order
throughout the grove.
This arrangement locates an elm
every sixteen feet with soft maple be-
tween each two elms, for permanent
trees. The box elders act as nurse trees
and tend to force an upward growth of
all the others, but should be gradually
thinned out when they begin to crowd
the other trees. Later the ash also can
and soft naples alternating every eight
feet.
The elm unquestionably makes the
best permanent tree, but if desirable the
trees can be so set that after thinning
out the nurse trees there may be left an
elm, green ash, a soft maple and a
white ash every eight feet. This ar
rangement would still admit of cutting
out every other tree in the course Of
time. After that a young tree should be
to perpetuate the forest.
shallow cultivation for several years, or
until the shade and leaves will prevent
the growth Of grass and weeds and also
preserve the ground in a loose moist con-
dition, such as may be found in a natural
forest.
The best time to plant trees is this
spring. The time to order trees of
nurserymen is right away, 55i. .53. ss53
The tree grove should be located SO
that it will prove a valuable shelter for
buildings as well as thing of beauty
and profit. A row of golden Russian
willows planted thickly for hedge about
six rods beyond the tree plantation will
protect the young trees from snow drifts,
while the intervening space will make an
excellent vegetable garden and fruit
orchard.
For the labor and expense involved,
no better investment can be made than
that Of setting out tree plantations for
shelter belts, for future fuel supply and
for beautifying the landscape and i'm
+ proving the climatic conditions of the
state. No farm should have less than
five acres OF growing trees and the larger
farms should have ten or even twenty
acres. A general revival of tree plant
ing should be inaugurated- Immediately
over the entire state. From present
indications the sell will be in excellent
condition this spring for planting trees.
TREE BOUNTY.
Section 2o82 of the North Dakota tree
culture law provides that any person
planting trees, otsless than one acre or
more than ten acres. shall he entitled ia