The Dickinson press., 1915-03-27
PLANT TREES
IT WILL PAY
GREEN ASH AND COTTONWOODS
MAKE A GOOD MIXTURE FOR
WINDBREAKS. WHICH
b. EVERY FARM SHOULD
HAVE. 49,.
Small Fruits do Well. Compass Cher.
Sries, DeSota Plums. Harder
Varieties of Apples are Sue
q Ns cessfully Grown.

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This is the season of the year when
people should be thinking about set
ting trees and shrubs in the yards
and starting groves on the farm.
Trees add to the value of any home,
and the owner of homes in town and
on farms should not neglect SO i'm
portant a matter as that of setting
trees.
There are several good nursery
companies in North Dakota which
will be glad to send catalogues and
full instructions on application.
Following is the advice Of Supt. L.
r. Waldron of the Dickinson station
given to PRESS readers last year on
tree planting and it is certainly worth
reproducing this year:
It is necessary when one wishes to
plant a windbreak, to experiment
much regarding kinds of trees. One
will not miss it much by planting a
mixture Of green ash and cotton
woods. The term cottonwood may be
used to include the Norway poplar,
Carolina poplar and the Northwest
ern poplar. The idea is to mix the
ash and cottonwoods. The cotton
woods will develop more rapidly and
will act as nurse trees for the green
ash. BY the time the cottonwoods be-
gin to go back, or by the time they
are needed for fuel, the green ash
will be promising trees. If the cot
tonwoods or the poplars are planted
alone the grove or windbreak does
not have the premanency that it
should. If the green ash are planted
alone one. does not obtain the. rapid
growth that is so much to be desired.
We recommend that the trees be
planted in rows, the rows to be 8 feet
apart Such a width makes it easy
to enter. between the rows with 2
horse corn cultivator, thus they are
easily kept clean. Within the rows
they may be planted 2 or..3 fet apart.
If later, one finds that the planting
is too thick some of them can easily
be removed. .,s.,,... .-' - - "--'
When one is planting a consider
able number of trees to form a wind
break or plantation; then it is almost
necessary to start in with small trese.
They develop better, root systems
when they are transplanted young
and consequently they grow more
rapidly. The cost of young trees is
very much less than the cost of older
trees. Cottonwoods from "a to 80
inches tall may be planted and ash
trees from Fl to "a inches tall. The
cost of such trees is not, great. One
nursery in North Dakota last year
listed ash seedlings II to "a inches
tall at $4 thousand, and cotton
woods from 20 to 80 inches tall at SIS
per thousand. One will have very
good success. generally by starting
cottonwoods or poplars by means Of
cuttings. The cuttings may be made
in the spring before the buds scarcely
begin to develop. f:Etl ''zf:2fl;{3'5.:ss4 rec
Cuttings should be made. of vigor-
GUS wood Of the previous years
growth and they should have a length
Of about 8 inches. "a They may be
soaked for "a hours after cutting be-
fore they are planted. :, They should
be planted, nearly their entire length,
leaving but one or two buds above
the surface. ,
In planting the trees burrows are
ploWed 8 feet apart wherever the
rows are to be-. A pail Of thin mud
is prepared and into this a bunch Of
seeding cottonwoeds and seeding ash
are placed. The pail Of trees, a spade
and a man form the planting crew.
The spade is inserted into the ground
and worked back and forth and as it
is removed with the left hand the
Seeding tree is showed into the hole
with the right. A person generally
works backward, thus saving injury
to the trees already planted. After
the tree is planted the dirt must be
packed firmly with the foot around
the roots. If desired the furrow may,
be partially filled with a corn culti-
vator. It is well to leave something
Of asfurrow along the row as water
from rains will tend to run in and
irrigate the trees. AT the end Of the
first season it is well 10 prine the
young trees up to single whip. I
this lie not done they tend to acquire
a b,1shy form. This fne thod Of prun-
ing should sbe repeated for 2 or !. 8
years. The trees should finally be
made to head at q height Of 5 to- s
feet or perhaps more. It is best to
prune ash and tttonwoods when the
leaves have fallen. Pruning these
trees while the leaves. are ON has, a
weakening effect The food that ID
the Ii W Tree M before S falling & III the autumn,
It should be remembered that after
receiving trees from the nursery the
roofs should be well protected
one desires to start T ~ lI1. with ever;