| Show COAL ANDWOOD AND WOOD FAMINE haw j ov TO PRE PARE adia A G A in 8 T I 1 IT T v th the A e e wat 1 tl h 1 geang isolated f from mp rail road amid s and wood becoming t Y 4 ts t S scarcer every y year might lit i tv bet bewell well now th this is spring to give W t K V I 1 so some me consideration to a chapter v y 0 of i aarm farm i gospel py oy bishop farrall af apap cabbe pp ap finup fi pup ah jre farmer cani n q a few w years bacorn become a A n independent dependent fe f e oal mines bulnes andwood and andwood wood scarcity is his prescription fr Se leftt three aeres in a corner i s of your farm plow same eight inches q g hs db deep e p n lands boil six sik ini i chos ches deeper then PILA plat plan t blwck black 1 locust trees one foot beep alep and six feet apart each way cultivate them 0 often through tigh two seasons f f it I 1 an and cl watering them while young say S ay for fortio two seasons and arid in four yeats years if well tended they will be large lendu 1 ii to mit cut 4 every al af tern ternate ate tree to make 9 sove ave wood and if c cut ut close to the ground they will S acu t two or three stalks stalk f from rom each stump which will ninke make good gadi d stove wood again in iii har fou r years this thi s three acres of timber i W will all half make 66 wry every farm J er independent of any coal min mine i e and anub he need ne never 6 r ae b e short sh oie of go good od h hard ard firewood e bishop farrell iso also a gives gires his e experience v peri ence with tree e av W his hig arid farm as follows jojne 0 ofte 15 5 yda years rs ago tb there e re was a L cat coal it I 1 ht fa min sr milar to that oft of the least winter two years ago ago J I 1 per prepared three aares of land hand the ahe ne next at spring planted it to box elder I 1 trees raised on at ahtcity city 1 lot these trees were 10 feet high hl gb a and ud one inch in diameter eter on 04 ahree of f my m dry ary farm 11 J dug dig boles holes 10 feet apart each way W adf and from two to io three feet 1 deep a according co arding to loathe ahe lay of the the T ae I 1 d dug u i till I 1 camp came to t 0 i tul 6 my neighbors to told ld tile me IV it would inal the trees t to 0 plant them so deeps deep but ut tl those iose 4 same 0 t trees are i ve and 4 twenty feet hi high h and f from rom f four 0 u y f to 0 six six inches in ill diameter and will furnish me all the fel fael f el L I 1 n be a af if he achere re should bo be a coal famine every year these trees ne never have hava e rny water except the rate and snow that falls J 1 planted i them down to moisture wd and tho they y y 1 i 0 r b have a ve ve been enin in moisture ever since hice my advice w would uld be do not wait U antil 1 forced A to do this by apt f famine bamin e but commence as s on as s possible pos aud and plant plan t a grove cr iove i ove of cf timber if you have pot not the bpi celder trees and iban can not ge them abena black locust will do jb justas sti as well old and will make stove wood in less time than boxelder box elder bein being n hardy and of df quick growth bei be sides sl des a pretty grove g of trees on your f irm firm will bea a u ut fit if it and make U 1 af u much M u C b more a i 0 r e valuable v lutt I 1 in in add addition on to being the M means 6 atis in a a I 1 few years of s cp firewood of the ve very ry finest quality By bencin fencing the grove rove and sowing it to grass after the second year a con v eat calve pash pasture re will be afforded afford od which w hi h will ill feed and shade the calves th through rou rn 11 the hot summer sum mer season |
