Show THE BASKET T WILLOWS Tire Tho Th of Forestry I States Department lt of at Agriculture suggests tK a n now new IW method me tho or growing craning grow In wit wll lows that will wIl n a I better hetter grade and Increased production tier per nere The Tho culture und nun of at basket banket willow have not attained In the thu States tho ho degree of perfection and profit that mark time the Industry In J Thimi IB in for or several reasons tho the most being tho the relative r of oC labor and the th failure ot of tire the American rOwer r to adopt the tho Ill Improved The growing h harvesting care ann and or of willow manual labor wholly hol tod by hy The cheap chiesi ch lp labor of tiC Europe indIa hns his grown willow wilow and woven oven It Into Inlo baskets nt at a IL with UK us 11 and our bettor paid bald labor Inbur Am r ingenuity hUH him still till further complicated the issue by pro ll IL cheap sPlit wood basket to I tale tuk po the time j of or tho ho more niece expensive email anil durable willow Thus Thin an of cit 0 good PossIbilitIes IH is Inn Tire The ur nit Forestry hues taken up the matter malter urn Uld and given It n mu 1 cult careful fill stud study Its ls expert haq thoroughly Investigated the methods le ho of oC culture unit 1111 turn both In iii this country and 1111 mu In lii and In Iii 11 addition the lots 11 u n willow wilOW plantation un In thu departments experimental mental near V Ii I C Kin Ire host best species of ut brisket willows were Hit aLt He out on different noll ol unit and spaced In Inn with different methods of or planting Flue Tho results nt or this thle reward research will ivill wi shortly bo Ii h made known by h the this bu bureau reau Willow In a 1 bulletin Tao 11 k t Time The Jh humans was wan wn to tn discover a 8 I means of or tho time cost of or tho the maw law product peeled mimi impeded rods route a lie ot of the tho Tills Thil no hos him S It I it Ig Is entirely u ni matter of properly tho tiro distance between tire thu t 10 aits Sl me tl h In lii II planting care In cutting tire the crop crl of or rods und mint In 10 selecting better Iter species mind and of willow To TIo custom lint incus Ins been I tl to Iu In rows 3 feet reet apart a mu 1 foot roul out in Iii II tho Ihu I own mows between bel tire Die sot nuts A i fur far bolt bitt r Is to put hut the tho Ito rows rOts 39 Indus 1 and this tha distance between the tire sets 8 t to D it Inch inches When hon thin thlu tin Is dune rind and I lt tire the It is I cut close chose to 10 the th the thitu rods rot crol will 1 be he longer Ion gar arid Ild hess lew le tire the plants longer lonner lived antI tine the yield per Ir aero acre much mU h greater The Initial lOst cost Is II slightly higher than Iran under uner existing methods but hut this Is In more then thim offset by bythe I the tha ncr iuie returns At t prevent an nil 11 average production of or nix tons tone or of green greens rods rols per er acre Is imi exceptional by ha the Ih method methot now snow by b fin bureau eight or morn moro tons tonic tor tier per aero acre Q ro of or better tetter r roils roII can calm eli bo ho tl produced When to Improved method nt or culture the advantage from fronnia u a I choice nf of hotter better of or willows inc for planting aro RIt II the tho re r suit stilt wilt will be I a I reduction In the price nf of time tho ho raw row material a n distinct of the th condition of ot both tire the producer end and Ind manufacturer Tire The growing or o basket banket willows win wn In Introduced Into Inlo the United some seams sixty yearn sign ngu liy by br German lerman basket brusket makers who settled In n western Now New NewYork York unit I They first at rut Thy tempted to u tine HO i lid but limit soon inon abandoned these th ao as aa Impracticable nod and Imported tim the purple or Welsh willow They grow tho rods rodj anit the mute Into 1110 basket was we 8 made mn profitable by whole families engaging In the weaving Their product hug ha always Alway been a it 1 ch cheap ap variety of or banket since they thoy tho use ue nt stellar mm In reeling peeling tire the rods rodi which Riven ives them an nn lark dark color When W hen the in wan waA extended farther west aunt ami down clown dOln to the th district t Mary land md rods were uteri used and anda a 1 much higher grado basket baket Plot Jut this thin country In Iii th ILI ten tto dYe IVA use inse 10 of or ware has hau hal hover ap ill approached 11 found not inert where ore are lot only early heavy healy 1 farm farns baskets basket and Ind r elm des of ot willow but hut mar market market ket kot clothes hint fruit baskets bankets of or pooled willow wilow furniture hampen ro nail ami trunk most moat wrought split hIlt wll wl low lav 11 for countless other oilier minis us it Could all ni mu be ins h UN mis lS cheaply manufactured hero n 11 tie there theu use imo u e by byus byu us mis u would bo ho as 08 in its I that the ChiC SOrt sea I I Tor Vor willow Is nut not only prettier than hiatt Hi Its Il substitutes but what hii U Is t Mill 1111 more snore lighter Ino nuni more moru durable Another use u urn fur fl li willow In Iii II thin timit country li Is In lii time the Ih demand tot for wil willow wl vi vilow low furniture hai ha fash fuchi tiara tue In tha t hem north while In II the Iho warm of the south II It I Is li rapidly the tho Ihl of furniture loot wanes wages an 01 b be paid In iii tho tim manu mario manufacture facture of at this thin Ills kind or of furniture It I U is UK isIt K It I profitable Industry lund and M grow crow I Inu UK In lii while willow wilow basket milking hll held UK Its own In Inc last Tue he for furniture t inns hOH been met to thU tin tIme by Importing French rods Hut lut Ihl timi can eSir be lie Ii If It I our oUI own willow wilow will wi adopt moro morn scientific of or culture ninth and market roda roche only emily after they the aro ure wil v 1 not hot COOn roon after utter cutting as no Is now cue cus In Iii tha thu bulletin the time bureau will wi Untie leslie In iii 11 rt II i tow few days every cery aspect of ot willow wilow cull cul culture ture tare miamI manufacture Is II exhaustively ox Tire Tho ho character of tho the ground to be ho used u ld preliminary cultivation planting I n 1 needing hind Ild cultivation cut sorting peeling og and I rig mull all 11 nia nrc ill II u fil thoroughly nail ami Int advice as III asto asto to branch ot or tho work IH Is II clearly Tho Tire Virtues and nud nl of or tho the different of r loWI suited to tola Stacked la manufacture are Inundation In tho tile spring after t until ami before the time new crop col opens ollene Is 18 Isn isa n a alow now aid In tho thin molts holts front from and In Iii tl fertilizing tho sets lets espe especially advised by tho tine bureau A valuable part of ot the tho InC bulletin hulln li I I a I chapter on oil insects Injurious to 10 willows prepared by ly of or en entomology Tills r II not only s emIl thu ln III Insect eit of or the willow hut but also K gIves CS methods for tor their heir control Tho Iho bulletin should prove to nil pro In of or willow anti and of grout great In Iciest to farmers who desire to 10 o o add RII 1 willow grow wilow ln Ini lag to their other othel crops It I can cnn bo ho IJ Irow ob obtained by h application to tn the tho tweeter United of or agriculture n Washington D H C |