Show MUST GROW FENCE POSTS blacut walnut and white mulberry trees recommended as excellent varieties or rapid growth BY THOMAS ft CISEL farmers ot the central and eastern states are now seeing the need of ye placing the timber lands that were needlessly destroyed in order to secure more land lor cultivation and as a method of securing money by cutting into lumber and other materials now this same timber Is wanted to replace farm buildings and in the building 0 fences throughout the central west good fence posts can only be had from lum her dealers who sell cypress and cedar posts at prices almost beyond the reach of the small farm owner many farmers do not like concrete and steel posts as they are expensive some farmers are turning fields out and farming without fences but to do this much valuable pas ture Is lost and crops are often dam aged by trespassing stock many are now planting timber tor a future supply in planting plant the catalpa thinking it the best true it is a lasting timber and of quick growth when planted on low rich soil but on hilly land or dry sandy soil it Is very slow requiring from ten to fifteen years to get posts large enough tor fence building others are planting osage orange but it Is also a slow growing tree and has the fault of growing crooked with short trunks and overmuch top the tree that gives the best results with little care after planting la the black locust it does well on any soil wet or dry it is a quick grower and when planted thick say six feet each way the trees will grow tall with but little top and will at the end of five years be ready tor the first thinning out |