The Dickinson press., 1913-04-26
Arbor Day
Is May End
for Tree Planting,
Green Ash and Norway PopIars
are Recommended. Start
Grove This Year.

Friday, May End. as Arbor Day for
North Dakota. and it should be the aim
Of everybody to set few trees and
shrubs on that day. Those who are
planting groves will have to set trees
when they get the stock and have the
land prepared, be it earlier or little
later.
SUGGESTIONS FOR TREE PLANTING
/. Use old ground which.does not con-
tain western wheat grass or blue Grass.
2. Manure and plow 10 or IL inches
deep.
3. Mark out the windbreak or planta-
tion and run the rows straight and with
the points of the compass.
| 4. Plow furrows from 10 to 16 feet
apart
S. In planting trees. prepare thin
mud and keep roots of trees immersed
while planting.
6. Plant trees in bottom of furrows
to feet apart; alternating the two
kinds of trees.
7. Plant with spade. keeping trees
BY ones side in pail. working back
wards.
8. After planting, partly fill furrow
with cultivator. Keep the trees culti-
waited during the summer.
9. Purchase the trees direct from a
nursery rather than through an agent.
10. Use green ash and poplar. Cot
tonwood is considered kind of poplar.
Use seedlings of the ash and cottonwood
Iand rooted cuttings of the Norway pop
lar if they can be afforded.
ii. Use trees "a to 80 inches tall
but not larger.
a12. 1t is well to plant at least one
row of everereens. When these are
lused, plant the bull pine. The roots Of
&erereens must be very carefully pro-
tssd from wind and weather.
j 3' TREE PLANTING +
In the planting of trees care must be
taken that old ground be selected; that
is, land that does not contain native
grass. 1t is of advantage too that trees
be grown on land that had cultivated
crop the season previous for then there
will be considerable moisture stored
for the use of the trees. The main
value in the use Of old. we'll cultivated
and is its freedom from perennial
weeds, and especially from western
wheat grass. After western wheat grass
invades tree plantation, it cannot be
subdued by cultivation, but must be
spaded. This is tedious work and apt
to be neglected. AS tree plantation
or windbreak is something to last many
years, it is of great importance that
it be started right.
Old land intended for trees should
be manured and plowed deeply. say to
a depth of 10 or IL inches. if this is
permissible. If the soil is heavy. with
q clay subsoil. it will be of advantage
to subsoil. This may be done with dy-
Mantle. After deep blowing, the soil
should be sufficiently packed so that
there are no holes in it for if there are
the soil will lose moisture too readily.
Preparatory to planting. the land
should be marked out so that the rows
will run east and west and north and
south. Also the rows should be staked
out go that they will be reasonably
straight. At time of planting. burrows
should be plowed at depth of say 8
inches. In plowing these one can plow
up and down in one furrow, throwing
the dirt both ways. The use of furrows
helps the planting considerably, maxi
ing it easier. The rows of trees should
not be less than 8 feet apart nor farther
apart than Is feet.
PLANTING
In planting the trees, one should
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