The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-03-21
FORESTRY IN FULTON COUNTY.
The State will Help You TO RefOreSt
Your Waste Land Just for
The Asking.
Continued from last week.

ticle of last week | wish to give
you an idea o f the value of the
trees the Department of Forestry
are giving away free to all those
who will plant and care for them.
To do so a short account of the
Nursey work is necessary. The
trees are raised from seed in
nursery beds A feet wide and
100 feet long. The seed i 8 sown
broad cast and n rows and the
trees are kept in the beds for 2
or 3 years. They are then lifted
packed, ard shipped in bundles
of so and 100 trees to the place
of planting. The trees are now
6 to Is inches tall with roots 5 to
10 inches long, and a thousand
trees will weigh Is to 20 pounds.
The expense of growing the
trees is about 81 25 a thousand.
II you were to purchase the same
stock from a commercial nursery,
they would cost you from 5 to 8
dollars a thousand.
WHAT TREES TO PLANT.
One should always plant the
valuable timber species as it re-
quires no longer to grow good
tree than a poor one. White
pine is the most valuable tree
we have in Pennsylvania and we
should always remember the fact
that white pine must be grown
from the seed, and will not
reproduce itself like oak and
chestnut.
We do not advise extensive
paintings of Hardwood species
as the oaks, walnut, and chestnut
because the numbered areas will
continue to supply these species
if forest fires are prevented from
burning over the land. You there
fore, must plant the species of
value in the lumber markets
which will not reproduce them
selves, except from seed. These
species are White pine, Pitch pine
Norway spruce, Red pine, and
Scotch pine. Y he Department
of Forestery can supply you, in
addition to the above species,
White ash and European larch.
All of the above species will grow
we'll in Fulton County and can be
found growing on State land in
Aughwick Valley.
would recommend planting
the above species in mixed stands
as White pine, Scotch pine, and |
Pitch pine together; White pine,
Red pine, and Norway spruce to-
gether; White pine, European
larch, and Red pine together;
White pine, and Red pine, to-
gether; White ash with one of |
the pine species. The character
of the location, soil conditions,
and altitude, are the determining |
factors in selecting the proper |
species to plant. am very well |
acquainted with soil conditions
in the County and will suggest |
the species for you if you de-
scribe the areas you wish to plant. |
Many o f the above species are
not found growing in the Coun-
ty but they will grow there just
as readily as the White and Pitch |
pines.
HOW TO PLANT.
Iw,i' supply every person who
asks, with copy of our Bulletin
No. Is on "Reforesting Pennsyl-
vania's waste land What nd
How to Plant. This Bulletin
gives you detailed information
that is impossible for me to give
you in this article. If you use a
team and plow in planting the
trees, it will only be necessary
for you to draw furrows and |
plant the trees in and along the
edge of the furrow. If the plant
ing is done by hand a mattock is
used in making the hole. One
good blow with the mattock usu-
ally suffices for making the hole. |
The tree is then planted in the
hole by covering the roots with
earth and packing the earth with