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Show BENEFIT OF SHADE TREES In Wisconsin Owner la Given Annual Bounty of Three Cent for Each Rod of Highway. " The Wisconsin law provides thnt financial consideration may be given by the stale to people who plant and cultivate trees by the roadside. Every Ev-ery person along or through whose lands a highway passes may plant and cultivate on one or both sides of the road where he shall own land, trees of such varieties as commonly grow at least 40 feet high. These must be set two rods or loss apart and In a row within eight feet of the outer line .of the highway. When such trees reach 12 feet In height the superintendent of highways shall give the owner upon request a certificate accepting the trees ns public pub-lic shade trees. Thereafter they belong be-long to the public and are protected as public property, but the title to them or to the fruit they bear belongs to tfie owner as long as he maintains the trees and replaces such ns die. The owner shall receive an annual bounty of three cents for each rod of highway along which such trees are planted on one side and six cents if planted on both sides, to be credited on his highway taxes. |