| Show TREK TREE CULTURE interesting figures and arguments it gosha june 1 10 1887 editor deseret mews bews at this peason eason i of the year utah county or that portion of it which borders the eastern shores of utah lake is one extended garden from santaquin yan San to lehi from an eminence the scene is very picturesque the patches of dark green white flecked marking distant cities veiled by a thin gauze of mist contrast beautifully with the lighter shades of fields and meadows nearer to our vi view ew all the beauties of combination and contrast are distinctly marked hs by partition fences fringing the valley and hiding biding in the dry benches from the bold blank stare of the summer sun slin are broad tracts of rye already taking a harvest tinge here and there over the whole valley like the shadows of clouds is to be seen the dark gre green en of of lucern patches some of them being clipped swath after swath b by I 1 t the e mower red glistening in the distance di tace in imagination we hear bear the musical click of the keen knife and ever and ancl anor the snort of laboring horses GROWING FIELDS OF GRAIN like mankind for whom they are mature exhibit IB 19 hebr the various degrees of health they enjoy some dark hued and rel minding one of the lusty mountaineer while others sickly yellow from too much water or call vividly to mind the city dyspeptic here and there are bright pastures tures ornamented by scattered herds of the varicolored vari varl colored long tailed kine but that which lends leads majesty and magnificence to the picture is ion long g lines ot of stately shade trees along streets and water courses suggesting pleasant summer walks and glorious carriage drives we have in our minds eye especially the little town of be benjamin from above payson the scene spread out below is enchanting one actually gets the impression that benjamin which somehow he has hitherto linked in his mind with greasewood grease wood and alkali is all at once fairly abreast of all her neighboring towns there is such an aloof air of population about the scene that one can hardly be persuaded without visiting the place that there are comparatively comparative ay few inhabitants and they scattered over miles of country but while some of the enchantment flies away with the distance one cannot help admiring the enterprise which is fast maki making ng this one oae of the garden barden spots of the county and by the most simple and av inexpensive ornamentation in the reach of the farmer viz SETTING OUT TREES they are planted not only in proximity to the houses bouses but along every hedge and ditch and on every waste nook and corner ot of the farm the pro prieto of the greasewood farm has alone about while most of his beig neighbors labors are not far behind him in this commendable enterprise e the kinds thus tar far tried are blue white and swamp ash elm silver maple poplar balm of f gilead white cottonwood quaking asp timber willow golden willow black locust linden lindea and hagberry mag berry successful experiments have haag been made in raising walnut sprouts from the maskind ma mast and there is no apparent reason why all the hardwood species of timber should not flourish alongside the quaking asp billy but ornamentation is only an incidental benefit accruing from the planting of trees let ui us C consider 0 ns ider 8 some 0 in e phases of their utility 1st ast As a means of increasing moisture the well known fact that forests attract whatever moisture may be fici floating atin in the air has been so of often ten exemplified that we need not refer to it further but itis it is of trees as 11 natural pumps or artesian wells that we desire especially to speak by scientific experiments it has been determined that every square foot of leaf surface of soft plants exhales daily one ounce of water drawn from the ground at this ratio it ft is estimated that every mod erate sized tree throws off into the air over SEVEN TONS OF WATER every day suppose then that the 0 o oon on M mr r stewarts farm some of them being saplings be equal to such trees there would won d then be below drawn from many feet below the surface tons of water to make the air humid and pleasant by day and to invigorate plants by a heavy fall of de dew w by night thus it will be seen that even were trees of no more utility than this their value would be in calculable I 1 ah IP ad As furnishing timber and fuel our oar nearest canons are pretty well depleted of f wood and timber and it is high time that our farmers were learning the lesson asson that it is infinitely cheaper to set out each year e a r a few hundred trees than buy u y wag wagon 0 n tires and mend broken wheels the writer was told by one gentleman that from a single row of trees two rods long on a hedge that could have been used for nothing else he cut TWO CORDS OF GOOD WOOD this had been but five or six years growing he also declared that though he began the practice of planting only ab outten years ago he had sufficient timber to spare without materially teri ally cl damaging aming his grove to fence in his whole fa farm in of acres his plan is to eat cut branches off the trees already growing and stick them into the ground from two to four f feet apart on OB both sides of a water ditch those on one side facing the gaps on the other by planting them so close together they grow straight into the air whereas if farther apart they would spread out and become bushy after a few years half of them may be bea cut away for f fuel ael and the rest be left for timber the white cottonwood and timber willow are the thriftiest thrift iest varieties rowing growing in benjamin on the farm of mr stewart the writer counted sixteen poles of the latter kind on a single rod these were sixteen years old eld ad asa protection against wind and frost the writer was informed by mr stewart that on a number of occasions when severe frosts leveled the growing crop of cereals those which grew i in proximity to the timber and fildew indeed eed several rods away rema remained inea unscathed Asa As a protection to stock during the rough winds of winter and early spring we seed need say nothing but it is in in their protection TO BEES that they become a sensible source of profit mr stewart who keeps nearly a hundred and auci fifty stands in in one aiace which is nearly and he intends shall be quite alte environed by vrees trees de clares that hives s thu thus pro one third more honey boney than in 10 the open space and the n obvious it if the wind is strongly but few of the bees beean ture out the need of soni bomel break it around the hive Is esth apparent but the protection afi by long lines line bf for thi the on and homeward flight is no lea less a hh sity for loaded down dowa with iao hoi ee will be much retarded and blown to the ground aroun d by a p wind but buc there is another advani advant tt cluing to bee culture from aft out trees none raising honey know that anat during a season oi of I 1 dew the returns from their ai el enormously increased now it if to credit the experience of the min honey producers this dew abt every year on the leaves of the j D willow As a result bees pay sorce some returns S with a view to assi assist S t in I 1 a e ta this commendable enterprise to i parts of the territory the writer write e 4 quiren of mr stewart the cost of ofa let ting out trees and this was the i astonishing ANSWER if people are willing to crimmi trim ay they can have all they want fort for simple mple cutting it I 1 should cut cuta dell deliver er them at the depot I 1 wa vo charge charge a cent apiece one cut and plant in a day anytime M between the breaking of spring espriu age and the last of may will answer gm should be taken that in I 1 push pushing ag afie it sprout into the ground bark and wood remain intact r this brings us to a a theme that often engaged the a attention P tio of the writer while lately 04 aaa j mission to the east there he be IF millions of bushels of acorns and nuts comparatively going to waste toe hogs turned loose in the forest I 1 lot bein being gable able to eat a tithe of them at home he reflected all our couii mountain with miles and miles of fertile acres on either side support at present along their banks scar scarcely eely anything better than scrub oak willow squaw brush and wild rose why can people be awakened to these gram facilities cili elli ties here acorns could be xa ered at 40 or 50 cents per bushel why should not every town turn tam out old fervor of pioneer co and plant each a carload of acorn 11 along the streams that give them we the health wealth and comforts they wn enjoy why should they not along every canal and water ditch we behave have yet to learn the reason if it is bot t to ba b found in downright cue and indifference were these suggestions acted upon at once aft A venture to predict that in ten beail A utah would have not timber for her own markets batso to ship to her 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