Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-02-27
FORTUNES IN TREES
Forests viii Thrive Wherever
Corn Will Grow


Corn Will Grow
In The planting of trees as an i,
at vestiment has in recent years bee
u thoroughly demonstrated.
- At Urbana, ILL.,, 10 a s5-year-ol
n plantation of Europesn Iarch, wort
il $ol9rer acre ;another in Minnesot
Il worth S4l7 per acre; a NortI
r Dakota cottonwood plantation !,
worth $3.50 per acre; a South
. Dakota white willow plantation /.
r worth $500 per acre.
. These examples are not rare bu,
represent many successful tree
, farms. Land planted to trees rays
an average of from $40 to $40 per
annum, for terms of years ranging
from fourteen to thirty years. The
planting Of a forest crop offers an
excellent means by which young
men nay lay by competence for old
age ana older men eli opportunity
to leave as an Inheritance scms.
thing better than pensions or
annuities.
Dividends from a wood lot NAV
De drawn in six or eight years by
planting quick growing trees among
the harder, slower growing. end |
mere valuable woods. The returns
are positively handsome, and when
black walnut is grown, fabulous
The great railroad corporations.
a. ter years of investigation, have
determined that owing to the
rapid growth, great durability and
usefulness of the Catalpa Speciosa
tree, it is the most ecor omical for
railroad construction and mainte.
nance, they are ann uell, plant
ing millions of these trees in ,
localities along their lines.
The Catslpa Speciosa tree is :
native OF the Wabash Valley; its
habits of growth is upright with
ong trunks, and is the most raid ?
growing tree in America that '
possesses economic value. =
Inc claims made for it are as q
q
That Catalpa Speciosa will grow n
twenty years TO be twenty u
,ches in thickness and forty feet
Ugh. 10
1 hat it will make a fence post VI
8 years. Gu
As fence rail it has withstood CT
ghty years Of sunshine and in
Orm. W,
mat as railway cros,-ties the WI
ood hes resisted wear and decay
r thirty two yeasr. th
That it makes mar nificent furni- APP
re. 90
Interior house finish equal to any pic
nerican wood. as
That firm straight telegram me
les may be secured in a dozen We
ars. en-
Inc Catalpa Speciosa tree
lures ID a fraction of the time r,
luired by the common woods of ma
world, and is equal or superior 80 r,n
many OF them in qualities which ~.
Q value to timber and lum. oai
hat seems marvellous is that noN
almost totally unknown tree 49,
lgenous tc small portion of ,Iss
lana, and unknown elsewhere ~"N
II within a few years, should -o'
% all appearances so universal In
g ability to adapt itself to var GOV
soils and climatic conditions pom
"lng now forty degrees latitude oou'
10 CT the equator to forty-tive ques
-ees north latitude and
here are records of tb;s Fra. dwell
century ego were com narn
, which measured twenty-one ciasl
girth ard reached upward $50 couie
Canoes and bateaux were con. IKE
'ted of single logs, which VirgI
'rrsd seven feet across the 1t
!. temp
lie States OF Ohio and Colorado Circu
taken up this matter, and collec
distributed many thousands the e'
ese trees. Th. Republic OF aecou
co. Dominion Governnen t OF lies
Zealand and several European the e
,ries have also secured seed. presses
rees from this country, and new g
aking extensive experime nts. arOpr
Horticulture, a monthly mags. made
published at Cor norsvils, alread
In tbs Interests of the Inter. COVER,
lal Society of Arboriculture, NorfoI
mend the planting of these design
anywhere corn will grow. Freder
Collect
r. Floods Able Address ~
editorial In the Winchester, oldest
n o i.