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Prof. Troop: Your idea is all right if you plant close enough, but you 

 want to plant very close and in single rows. 



Mr. DeVilbiss: Would you have to cultivate to make the tree 

 grow? 



Mr. Freeman: You are spealdng of the blacli locust? I hardly tbink 

 so. It is a very hardy tree. I propose, however, to get the sod out of 



the way and keep it out for the first year. The trees bunch together and 

 you will get body. 



Mrs. DeVilbiss: I have noticed that if you plant trees along the 

 fence, especially along the woods fence, they will grow so much more 

 rapidly. The growth is so much faster in the forest area than it is 

 out in the open. 



Mrs. Davis: In regard to planting trees along the fence. We have 

 so many vines in our woods, like the poison ivy. We have to contend 

 with that. If we have trees along the fences we can not cultivate 

 them like we could in a clear strip of ground. If we try to cultivate them 

 we get poisoned. I am very fond of shade trees aiid I think the 

 farmers of today should plant them. 



Mr. Lodewick: Isn't the ground richer along the fence than out in 

 the open? In a rail fence line for instance, we have a better nap, and 

 I think this makes it something bice new ground. 



. Prof. Latta: Are the farmers availing themselves of the present 

 law which encourages these woodlots? 



Mr. Freeman: The attempt has been good but the results bad. 

 Fifty-seven tried and twenty-three stood the test. This was because of 

 the law. In the first place that law is deficient in that it does not 

 provide for anj^ systematic execution of the law. It is taken advantage 

 of. This can be done every four years. The farmer can cut his tim- 

 ber this fall if he cares to, and there is no law to get at him. There- 

 fore there is scarcely a timber tract that complies with the law. The 

 Attorney-General interpreted that only such trees as were mentioned 

 in that law could be cut, so the law is a failure. It is unconstitutional. 

 All similar lands should be taxed equally, but it is allowed to stand for 

 the good of the cause. 



Prof. Latta: I would like to ask Prof. Roth one question. He has 

 given us a large fund of information but I wish to ask this. In the 

 old country is there any infallible rule as to the number of trees that 

 it is advantageous to keep growing on the acre? Does it vary with 

 different kinds of trees, and with different soils? 



