Arizona republican., 1911-01-05
ADVISES P[ANTlN6
 EUCALYPTUS TREEs VALLEY FARMFes SHOULD RAISE
 OWN FENCE POSTS. So Says caIiforni. Expert, Who wiII Deliver Lecture at Board Of Trade.

Salt river valley farmers are ad-
 vised to plant eucalyptus trees for
 fence posts by w. H. Reed. formerly
 supervisor of the Tonto national forest
 and now connected with the Eucalyptus
 Timber Corporation of Pixley. Cali
 fernia. near Tulare. Mir. Reed recently
 returned to Phoenix on a business trip
 and will probably be here a month
 longer. During his stay he win per
 sonally confer with all who seek his
 advice and he has kindly consented to
 deliver an address upon the growing
 of eucalyptus timber in the Salt river
 valley at the board of trade Saturday
 afternoon, January A.
 MT. Reed is not here for the purpose
 of looking up euclyptus lands for his
 Town company. for he thinks that the lplanting of this tree in large tracts
 would prove unprofitable here. largely
 because of the caliche. He does believe,
 however. that farmers will find it prof
 ifable to plant certain varieties of
 eucalypts along their ditches ditches.
 Eucalypts grow rapidly and make ex-
 cellent fence posts The wood Is also
 valuable for many other purposes.
 "'rhe Salt river valley farmer who lines his ditches with eucalypts will in
 two or three years not only be grow
 ing all the fence posts he needs but will be selling them to his neighbors." said MT. Reed yesterday. Eucalyptus posts are much better than most of
 those I have seen around Phoenix I Posts cut from trees of the rostrata l variety last a long time'
 MT. Reed says that the two varieties best suited to this country are the ros- | trata and tereticornis. Both are red gums. He does not approve of the blue gum for this region In fact that variety has already been proven fail- ure here for no blue gum seedlings have ever grown to any size in the Salt river valley. Neither do they thrive
 in the warm interior valleys of Cali 1 fornia. They do not stand heat we'll. while the red gum is more liable to l injury by cold. Red gums stand about Any country suitable to orange grow l trata or tereticornis l A number of trees in this valley com monly spoken of as blue gums are in l In reality red gums. Mir Reed referred
 to those in Capitol addition and one at
 the corner of Ninth avenue and Adams street. That at Ninth and Adams is ] Is years old and a magnificent tree. l while those in Capitol addition are Il years old The seedlings from which l they grew came with consignments of blue gum seedlings ordered by per 1 sons who did not know what varieties were best adapted to this climate All | the blue gums have since died. while | the few rostrafas accidentally mixed ! in have grown rapidly and in most 1 instances have become large trees. ! Mir. Reed says that many persons ] have come to the conclusion that euca- I lypts are not success here because I many of the seedlings imported from i California have been too large To 1 grow, seedlings should be planted when small Coast nurserymen have worked off their larger stock on Ari- l zonians and while the seedlings looked i to be fine. large young trees, they were lin reality worthless for fransplanting 1 because the roots were crowded in little pots and never recovered from the Icramping. ! Tn certain parts of the valley ca | liche i:s SO near the surface that it seri- ously interferes with the growth of { eucalypts of any variety. Both the rostrata and tereticcrnis send down tap roots and they cannot possibly pene- trate caliche If the caliche is fifteen or twenty feet below the surface it does not matter. Euealypts are strong ly resistant to aIkalir o~fo ho In- !cessful in California and which Mir. Reed believes would grow we'll here is | the vimiralis This tree. however, is more ornamental than useful. Its wood lis fairly good for making boxes. but the rostrata is best for fence posts. Mir. Reed has seen rostratas years old I product two fine fence posts each. 1 MT. Reed says that the demand for eucalyptus timber is certain to be greater than the supply in very few years. A number of companies have been organized to plant Eucalyptus but a great many have never done so. In l fact some never intended to plant trees. 1 The Burr brothers recently arrested Fin St. Louis for fraudulent use of the mails had fake corporation known as l the California Eucalyptus Timber company A genuine company of the same name as a plantation next to that Iof the Eucalyptus Timber Corporation sasith which Mir. Reed is connected It Twin undoubtedly suffer much from the expose of the bogus concern. | WhIle MT Reed is great believer l in the governments conservation policy he believes that it is private corpora tions which will prevent timber fam line in the United States In support of this belief he cited the governments lreeord for last year in tree planting | The forest service produced 3,o00,ooo seedlings. while his own company alone produced 5.oo0.0o0 seedlings mostly eucalybts
 | While in Phoenix Mir. Reed win make 1 his headquarters at 41s Fleming block. l -rl,ere he win he glad to meet and ad- lvise anyone. free of charee. He Is merely interested in seeing eucalptus | trees planted in the Salt river valley. Before the time for his lecture at the | board of trade he win nave received