Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-12-14

tanned. The limbs ara bound down tight as
to save room in shipping. Then they are bound
together in punches of five, this being convenient
for both shipment and sale. They go to market
in open cars that they may be kept cool and pos
sibly damp. Otherwise their tips might wilt and
their attractiveness thus be lessened. They are
sold direct from the to retailers and these
make point of keeping them always in the open
air.
Throughout the southern states the supply OF
Christmas trees from the southern pine
that overruns the region. Ordinarily the markets
are supplied by the wagons of the farmers, but
in the bigger cities they in carload and
trainload lots. The fir is abundant in Colorado,
but 1t grows in high inaccessible places, and
therefore the Douglas spruce and the lodgepole
pine largely take its place. This is largely true
of all the Rocky Mountain states. In California
and the other Pacific Coast states the incense
cedar and the young coast redwoods quite
generally used as Christmas trees. The swamps
of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota furnish
the markets of Chicago. st. Paul. Minneapolis and
Detroit
When the time ready for the indoor use OF
the tree it is dug and pared down to graceful
piece of earth a base. Then piece of can
any other sort of stout cloth is bound
about the base to prevent crumbling of the earth
The whole of this is then fitted into box tub
and is ready to serve its purpose in the house
1t is more solid and effective indoors than the
binary tree and never willis droops. 1t Is in
reality a living tree
When the festivities are over the tree is taken
to the point where it is to be planted. A hole is
dug tc fit its base This be successfully
complished even where the ground is frozen. The
around its base and it is fitted again into the
earth from which it came. The protected roots
again take hold and the tree goes growing
without knowledge of it's holiday expe-
rience. 1t is in injured
Nurserymen specially prepare trees for just
this purpose Individuals may do the thing
with explanation than that given above.
Trees from the native woods around any village
may have their roots pruned in advance they
may be dug with preparation whatever
There is better chance of their f1ourishing when
they have been prepared for the transplantng.
But any evergreen dug up with a bit of earth
about its roots should grow.
There is also manner of permanently marking
trees without injuring them interfering with
their growth A tag fastened to piece of wire
will remain attached to tree for century.
This tag may be of metal and on it may be stamp
ed the date and whatever legend is desired. The
home of a growing family may thus be left with
a permanent monument of all the Christmases
that have passed the heads of the children
that have dwelt within 1t. When these return
to the ancestral hearth in their old age they can
recall the planting of the trees and the events
dentally. the landscape will have been beauti.
fed, and aside from the sentimental phase of it,
much valuable timber produced
The Christmas tree industry of the United
States has assumed great proportions and Uncle
Sam is making plans to place the industry upon
permanently profitable basis through reforest-
ing large areas Incidentally the industry
has furnished opportunity for hundreds Of
new by harvesting the of evergreen
OF the nations forest land 100000 acres
are today covered with mature timber, while
10000 600 well seeded with young
growth This leaves 100.00O,o00 acres that are
either non-productfve only partly productive
It is for this 100000,000 that seed are to
be gathered, and it is upon this vast expanse
that they to be planted until the whole is
developed into its greatest possible yielding cana
city. making it one of the finest forests that the
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