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Show GROWING THE LOCUST TREES Soon Plant! Break Throuflh Ground They Should Be Given Same Cultivation Cul-tivation a Crop of Corn. (Ily P. O. IDNOYKAR, Colormto AlfH-rullurul AlfH-rullurul Colli'ue.) Any prMon wao run m-cure Bert ol black or honey loeunt can readily row Lis own treea of thepe two upt cIob. K-(l8 that have bi'cn kept dry, even tflKbt or ten juars. will grow almoHt uh rcndlly na thouo that have been Kathpred but one year. In either ciiHe the Roeda are ito hard that It planted dry, an one would pcaa or bennn, many of them will fall to germinate ger-minate nnd all of them will be very Blow. They vhotild first be treuted with hot water, I'luoo about one-half pound of seed In any can or Jar that will hold about one gallon and that will not bo broken by hot water. Pour about two or three qunrta of boiling wntor upon the aeedn, rover, and allow al-low to mnnd over night. When the water In poured off. It will be found that ninny of the need have doubled In hU and become Foftened. Thrfla rhould bo taken out and may be planted Immediately, while those that remain hard should be treated In the nm manner until all of them have swollen. ' Hunt In good garden Boll, In rows about three feet apart, planting the eed about one Inch apart, In the case of the black locuHt and three Inches apnrt for the honey locust. Cover the former twothtrdH of an Inch and the lutter one Inch deep and firm the soil upon them. As soon as the plants break through the ground they should be g'veti the same cultivation and Irrigation Irri-gation hr a crop of corn. The young treeb will probably need thinning, so as to Make them about four Inches to five Inches apart In the row. This will give much stronger seedlings than to allow them to grow much thlrber. At tho end of the growing season It Is best to dig the younger trees Just beforo the ground freezes and bury them In a well drained situation, covering with at least six Inches of soil, flrflt tying them Into bundles of 25 to 60 trees each. They should be dug the following spring, In the latter part of March or the first of April, and plnntod In permanent quarters. |