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to a square plot often acres to each side of two thousand and eighty-six 

 feet, so that the outside of your farm will measure eight thousand three 

 hundred and forty-four feet round. Subsoil a strip twenty-six feet wide 

 round your land; this will take up five acres. Through this strip open 

 four furrows six feet apart, and run the plow through eav,h several times 

 till the soil is loosened deep and finely pulverized. The ground is now 

 prepared for planting. 



Take a piece of thick twine or bale-rope some two hundred feet long, 

 untwist and tie through the strands short pieces of rag four feet apart; 

 stretch the line tightly along the center of one of the furrows, and with a 

 dibble make a hole six inches deep and an inch and a half in diameter 

 opposite each mark on the line. Knock off one side of your box contain- 

 ing the plants, and with a trowel or strong knife carefully detach each 

 tree from the soil, disturbing the soil about the roots as little as possible. 

 Then take the tree between the thumb and finger of the left hand, pass 

 its root into a hole to its natural depth, and with a trowel or piece of 

 flat, hard wood pointed at the end, press the dirt around the root, and 

 level the soil about it. In short, plant them just as you would cabbages 

 or tomato plants; but mark this point, be sure that the roots are vertical. 

 You will thus have four rows of trees round your farm, four feet apart 

 in the row, and the rows six feet distant; each row will contain two 

 thousand and eighty-six trees, making an aggregate of eight thousand 

 three hundred and'forty-four trees, occupying five acres of your ground. 

 Two men can plant three thousand trees in a day in this manner. They 

 will require no stakes. They must be dressed by the cultivator three 

 times during the first year, and they must receive one plowing and three 

 dressings each succeeding year, for four years. 



The following table will give the dimensions of the trees at five years 

 old, and, at every succeeding year, till they are thirteen years old: 



On the sixth year, take out every other tree of the first row; seventh 

 year, second row; eighth year, third row; ninth year, fourth row. The 

 amount of cordwood obtained each year will be forty-seven, fifty-seven, 

 ninety-three, and one hundred and sixteen, making a total of three hun- 

 dred and twenty-three cords. You will now have left four thousand 

 one hundred and seventy-two trees, and the trees will be eight feet apart 



