The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-22
PLANTED FOREST
Success Depends Largely Upon Kinds
 Of Trees Selected.

Everywhere vast areas of valuable woodland are being stripped of their timber by the demands of commerce, and while the supply of lumber is constantly diminishing the demand and the prices are constantly in- |creasing. The primeval forest is rapidly disappearing. To secure a continuous supply of timber it must be relaced by second growth of the best species and the best form in the shortest possible time. This can be done by forest management; but the supply thus obtained must be supple mented very largely by timber grown in commercial plantation Some of these days Connecticut woodland will be yielding handsome profits and tree planting anlong streams and canals and on watersheds
 If the tracts of forest cut over each year were permitted to make a sec ond growth, a future supply would be provided naturally, but this is not generally the case. The transforma- ti6n of so large a percentage of for est land into fields and of nearly as much more, through reckless lumber ing, into waste land must eventually reduce the wonderful fertility of the country, for no other natural agent is so active a soil builder as the forest A pure water supply for large cities and towns and for the protection of irrigation reservoirs requires extensive planting along streams and canls and on watersheds.
 The profits from growing timber are certain, and far-sighted business men are recognizing the possibilities for conservative and highly profitable in lvestment in forest plantations. More and more railroads and other cor porations and farmers throughout the country are establishing commercial l plantations, to supply the timber for their own needs or for commercial profit
 Financial profits in commercial for est planting can best be obtained by the selection of species which will produce the most valuable product in the least time, Many planters are not aware, however, that each kind of | tree has definite geographic and
 climatic range, beyond which it will not grow with sufficient vigor to jus I tify it's use for commercial planting. Each region has certain trees that are adapted to it. It is in selecting the proper trees for a given region that the prospective investor must use good judgment if the venture is to be sue
 eessful Mistakes are not only ex~
 tremely costly, but they may not be found out for number of years.
 Any one who has observed the great
 number of plantations in the west
 which have not met the planters ex- pectatlons can readily appreciate the
 necessity for definite knowledge on
 this subject.
 | The forest service has investigated
 problems of tree planting and has re- gently issued planting circulars on the
 trees best adapted for timber pro-
 duction in the United States These
 circulars give q general description of
 the tree and it's uses; they also give
 detailed instructions in regard to the
 methods of propagation, planting, cul-
 tiyation, and care, Among these trees may be mentioned the following: I White pine, red pine, Scotch pine,
 jack pine, western yellow pine, Euro-
 pean larch, Norway spruce, white elm, chestnut, honey locust, hackberry, cottonwood, shagbark hickory, bur
 wood. Special leaflets on the euca- l lyptus, and on fence-post trees have
 also been issued. These publications
 can be secured free upon applica-
 ton to the forest service.