Show AS TO TREE CULTURE I 1 read an article on forestry in the NEWS of january 6 1895 1 am somewhat Interest oid in tree culture when I 1 was a young man 22 years of age I 1 came from the factory in england and of course did not understand anything about umber timber growing I 1 arrived in salt lake city in the fall of 1869 1859 1 I topped in salt lake city till the wlmer winter of 1861 when I 1 moved to ogden weber county but in the year 1860 11 board beard president young tell the people that he wanted them to plant timber trees for said be the time will come when they will be needed for fuel and other purposes I 1 there and then made up my mind to plant trees it if ever I 1 should be able to have a place piece of land that I 1 could call my own in the year 1866 1 I succeeded in obtaining thirty acres of land sines since that uwe time part of it has gone to mineral or of salt but however I 1 began to plant cottonwood cuttings cutting and some nome I 1 parried carried on my back from the river side akle that being befog almost ithe tb only tree available at the timo time years after poplars were brought into the con country rhen aben to got get some cuttings and isome young poplars I 1 went to work tor for a man and took them for my pay 1 was very careful of them even planting he be small email slips two and three inches wag after that comes the balm of x g head I 1 had a few cuttings of those also alao so that from the first of my having land I 1 have put in practice the counsel of the prophet of god with the view of ba va nit fire wood and wood for other purposes so as ae when I 1 should got get so BO old as not to want to go to the mountains for every stick of wood I 1 should have enough of my own to last me perhaps all my life lifland and some for my children after me I 1 think it will prove so I 1 have been cutting my own wood for or a good many years now dow I 1 never go to the abe aoun taine for wood I 1 have out some between two and three lout leet through D DJ not reject the abe cottonwood or the poplar because there is a growing demand for the timber of these trees frees at the box fact factories orlee also tor for furniture a great deal of it to is used in fact fuere is not enough oft boft wood timber grown for present demand while W alle it will take lake long years and good soil to grow the best hard bard wood the soft wood can b be grown on almost roy any kind of land by proper attention it for present use 1 find bud in my experience on shallow soil where the be hardpan Is within eight or ton ten inches of the surface it Is to Is best to have a load of good soil our oo hand dig through the be hard pan until you reach the soft damp soil below thou then till nil up half the hole with glodi soil 4 60 lt pious the tree then put in the coif soil around the tree and it 16 will form a tap root which will find its way belo wand will grow twice as an lost last as the one planted on hardpan bard pan most moet of my trees are around the fences md and along the water ditches on land where I 1 cannot grow anything else some say it hinders the crop it if so put in which will hold bola its own I 1 find that bat we be cottonwood will stand the drouth botter better than any of the soft woods the poplar next batby but by grafting or budding the poplar into the cottonwood it will stand drouth better I 1 grow my own wood for every use ou the arm I 1 sometimes think how bow good it would be it if this people would lake more notice and put in practice the counsels of our leaders I 1 find that the trees make a place cooler in summet summer on account of the sho shade cooling he be not hot winds and add a wind break in winter the beauty and life of a place in ummer R M T WEST weber co |