| Show TREKS TREES FOR FOB PROFIT many a si landowner in the country districts la in utah would have hare been much better off than he to today if he bad taken the advice given twenty five years yeara ago about tree planting when it could have been followed with a little display of energy and many young men who are land owners now dow and think the advice to IB not of immediate interest to them mow may feel in another quarter of a century that mag they have bays made a mistake ake all along the history of utah and particularly at the period referred to the counsel was given giten by leading men man for to people to plant forest and aad hardwood treed abose varieties whose who wood was valuable when me be trunks frank bad attained a good size eize of course such bach trees roes are of slow low growth and while the he softer and more quickly growing tress tree were planted because it seemed too long to wait for me be others the result shows that another bour would have been more profitable an illustration of this Is given to la the experience of charles E whit ing an iowa farmer who planted walnut trees from 1870 to 1873 1879 and which now stand irom from fifty to sixty silly reet feet baigh and are regarded as among the most moat profitable investments on hla his farm he planted in belto beige and han ha about acres of timber alto getter gether his big farm being large he was waa tir for the tree in addition to which he be may layf the tax elemi tion fees aea for the first ton ten years and theft use I 1 have made of the timber la in thin clog has haa paid me a fair rental for the land up to this bla timbes time of his ahli timber planting and growing experience mite ift whiting aya further la the burlington corn belt bell on my farm I 1 have bare to keep up over forty mile of wire fence and for manip years yean I 1 have hare not bought a fence pom using those young walnuts for torp posts octo cutting enem out as soon as the top showed signs of dying saving me a 8 large item of expense most or of my day walnuts have been planted in the spring in the I 1 failed ot of a first claw stand in my SOIL if I 1 cultivate them well the first two years and plow them hem over once or twice the third year they will shade the ground and take care of themselves for ft K continuous growth last year we had a heavy crop of nuts nuis and I 1 have over aft bushels of black walnuts put away for planting this spring I 1 shall continue the belt form of planting prom from this you win will see that I 1 am still faill a believer in walnut planting and culture by the th way while on the timber question I 1 may as well mention the fact that last month I 1 had a sawmill sec upon my phaoe and out cut out about feet of timber for use ue on my farm and it is in all gone last week I 1 had the mill coma again and it is in now sawing this time I 1 have between and feet fees of logs logo in the yard some of these logs logo aro are over three feet in diameter every tree of which has been grown since I 1 came to the place and so far I 1 have not out cat a tres tre when they did not need trimming out my sawing this spring will include five or six different kinds of timber I 1 1 have so far refused to lot let any timber or furniture mango man go into my groves to out cut any portion out though I 1 have had repeated requests from parties eabe to do so no theme theae statements ought to cau some ome thought as ai to the she advisability of hard timber culture on buob of ahoi land that Is if now allowed to 1 jle I no an used mr experience la in planting to that belts belta of timber about ten rows row wide with five or six alx test between rows row and aad thirty to thirty atz inches apart in rows row do the beet for timber growth and at the name ame time give he as protection to aft the he fields |
