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Show BLACK LOCUST FOR POSTS. Farmers Can Grow Them with Little Trouble and Much Profit. Farmers nro beginning to rcnllzo that growing timber Is the very best way to solvo tho post problom. From experience nnd observation I am con vlnced tho black locust excels. The mulberry nnd tho osngo aro Its equal In point of durability, but they aro of slower growth. Tho lattor has a very bad habit of spreading. Tho cednr Is not so durablo In small posts and harder to grow. Hlack locust can bo grown In somo rough, out-of-the-way place, on poor soil or in our best pastures. Many flno vlstns of black locust aro found In Kentucky nnd elsowhere. When It Is desired to removo the trees they nro cut out, and a sprout is allowed to grow from each stump. Young lociiBt sprouts may be bought of nurserymen and Bet out along the roadside or to form n grove. Thoy cost about $10 per 1,000 when two feet high. Protection must bo provided when thoy are first set out, ns stock will nip off tho main sprouts, causing thorn to form a bend rather than grow tnll and slim. In denBo natlvo groves nature does the pruning, honcu tho Importance of planting closo In groves. Along highways and whoro scattering It Is nocessnry to do somo pruning. Tho head should bo run up very high, says Ornngo .ludd Farmer. Sometimes n post may bo cut from n six-year-old treo, but hotter results aro had whon tho treo Is old enough to furnish thrco posts, two on first section and ono on tho second. Tho value of theso posts varies. |
