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Show QUALITIES OF HONEY LOCUST Drought Resisting Tree May Well Be Crown on Most Farms In the Northwestern States. The honey locust Is a most beautiful tree and one that might well be grown to some extent upon most farms. It belongs to the legume family or pod producers and has a beautiful compound com-pound leaf. It grows very largo and has sharp thorns on both the branches and trunk of the tree, says a writer in the Dakota Parmer. When closely set In the form of a hedge. It makes a most formidable barrier against any kind of stock. The Colorado station In a recent bulletin recommends lh honey locust as the most drought re-Blatant re-Blatant of any species of deciduous trees. When this is taken Into consideration, con-sideration, it will be sen that this tree deserves a much larger use In the northwest. It does not sucker as does Its closely related species, the black or yellow locust, and Is not nearly as subject to the attack of tbe locust borer. The writer has In mind a specimen of the honey locust In Jerauld Jer-auld county. South liakota, which Is one of the handsomest trees be has ever seen In the ltakotaa. It Is about twenty-five fet high, very spreading, and has proven a rapid grower. Northwestern North-western nurserymen highly recommend recom-mend this tree and offer seedlings and young trees at low prices and the la-kota la-kota Farmer would urge a larger tr.al of this beautiful tree in Its territory |
