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remaining today is the common Ash. We find here and there groves of 

 ten arce of Ash thirty years old with no larger growth than might have 

 been made in one-third of that time had one-fourth of that number been 

 planted on the same amount of ground, and properly cared for. We be- 

 lieve that in framing the Timber Culture law of 1878 the makers of the 

 law made what afterwards proved to be a mistake in requiring the trees 

 to beplanted four feet apart, and also in allowing seeds and cuttings to 

 fill the requirements. 



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We believe every farm home, when first laid out, should be entirely 

 surrounded by trees for the protection not only of the residence but 

 made to take in barns, sheds, hog-lots and orchards and should enclose 

 at least five acres of land. Several rows of trees should be planted for 

 this purpose. I should recommend Elm, Ash, Honey-Locust, Russian 

 Mulberry and Hackberry for upland. In addition to the above for bottom 

 or river land, Cottwood, Carolina Poplar, Maple, Box-Elder and Linden. 

 A valuable tree which has been much neglected is the Black Walnut. 

 The writer visited a grove of this variety on Wood River a year ago, the 

 same having been planted about twenty. Some of these trees now 

 stand from 50 to 75 feet in heighth, and some of them nearly one foot in 

 diameter. These trees are straight and finely formed and the only 

 grove of its kind seen in the west. These trees have been persistently 

 trimmed from year to year until they assumed their present form. 



