Show BENEFIT OF SHADE TREES in wisconsin owner Is given annual bounty of three cents for each I 1 I 1 rod of highway the wisconsin law provides that financial consideration may be given by the state to people who plant and cultivate trees by the roadside every 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 he be sot set two rods or less 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 c r certificate accepting the trees as public shade trees thereafter they belong to the public and are protected as public property but the title to them or to the fruit they bear belongs to the owner as long as he maintains the trees and replaces such as die the owner shall receive an annual bounty of three cents tor for each rod of highway along which such trees tire planted on one side and sit sir cents if planted on both sides to be credited on his highway taxes |