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Show SEEDLING GROWTH IS RETARDED 6Y BRUSH Close Spacing Desirable to Produce Pro-duce Best Timber. When Tops of Treea Degln to Inter- mingle Tmd Crowd Each Other Come of Them Should De Cut Out for Bast Results. (Prepared by the United States Depart-tnent Depart-tnent of Agriculture) When cufover html Is planted In hnrd-wood RscdHngs, It mny happen thnt a natural bushy growth will for u few yenrs outgrow the planted trees, overtop them or crowd them, mid thus Interfere seriously with their development. develop-ment. To Insure tho proper development develop-ment of the seedlings, forest specialists special-ists of the United States Department of Agriculture say lu Farmers Ilulle-tln Ilulle-tln 1123, "Growing nnd Planting Hardwood Seedlings on tho Farm," lti Is necessary to' cut dow?n the brush for two or three years. When old treei with wide-spreading crowns threntcn to shade tho seedlings so they will not develop properly, tho bulletin suggests thnt such (rees be cut out a few years ufter tho new planting hos been started. To produce clenn-lwdl-jd timber, close Kpnclng Is de-Irable. When the tops of tho trees begin to Intermingle nnd crowd each other, however, they become like overcrowded vegetables In a garden. Growth Is stagnated. A good gardener will pull some of the vegetables In n gnrdon that have reached this condition. When trees hnve reached a similar stage, some of them should be cut out. In both cases the result Is the best development of tho remaining part rather, than a poor development of the original number The best formed nnd most henlth) trees should bo permltlrd to- remain, and the others that nro likely to Interfere Inter-fere with their growth shoutd he removed. re-moved. , Thinnings are usually necessary when n plantation becomes twentj yenrs old, sometimes sooner. The openings In the crown-cover of the stnnd made by removing trees' should not he too large to prevent the growth of the remnlnlug tree tops from cov-erlng cov-erlng the gnps In from thrcoJo five yenrs. When poles are cut for fnrm use, a crude form qf thinning mny bo accomplished by enro In tho selection of trees with u view to tho Improvement Improve-ment of tho stnnd. Pruning of tree branches Is usunlly unnecessary, nnd, because of the cost of labor, undesirable. If a tree Is pruned too far up It mny become top-heavy top-heavy and easily broken by severe winds. The cntnlpn, nun nnd blnck cherry arc known to have suffered from this, nnd It seems likely the mmo Is true of irihny other species. If, be-causo be-causo of wldo spacing, pruning Is necessary, nec-essary, lt should bo conductt'd In late winter or enrly spring, nnd should not bo overdone. |