ARBORICULTURE 



a monthly magazine. 



Published in the Interest of the 

 International Society of Arboriculture. 



Subscription, $2.00 per annum. 



John P. Brown, Editor, 1639 Michigan Avenue. 



Volume 1. 



CHICAGO, NOVEMBER, 1902. 



Number '.L 



Appeal to American Farmers. 



PROVIDE AN INCOME FOR THE FUTURE. 



To- the Fanners of Avici ica. 



YEAR in and year out, American 

 farmers plow the land, sow the 

 seed, reap, and send to market the 

 various grain, ha}^ or produce, each sea- 

 son demanding seed, labor and expense, 

 repeated as the years roll on, from youth 

 to old age. A few become rich by 

 reason of advancing values in lands, not 

 many make more than a living during a 

 lifetime of toil. 



American youth tires of this continu- 

 ous drudgery and drift to the great 

 cities, in hopes that by successful specu- 

 lations they may gain wealth without 

 the expenditure of such labor. 



Combinations of capital control the 

 price of your productions. Unions 

 among the elements of labor decide the 

 cost of your help. In every branch of 

 industry and all forms of business are 

 alliances to limit the income of the agri- 

 cultural class. The hours of labor in 

 the cities are short — the day of the farmer 

 is double the length of that of his city 

 brother. 



Why not produce something in addi- 

 tion to grains and grasses which will 

 relieve you of part of this incessant toil, 

 and which will ever be in demand at re- 

 munerative prices? 



You who have made homes in the 



wilderness of forest, and by slow and 

 tiresome degrees cleared the fields for 

 tillage, are aware of the small value of 

 wood in the mixed forest. Here and there 

 is a good tree, but the majority is of no 

 special value for the lumberman, and 

 only adds to the labor of clearing. This 

 is owing to the methods used by nature 

 in planting the seed, sowing it promis- 

 cuously by wind, animals and birds. 



If every tree on your land was a wal- 

 nut, or a hickory, yellow poplar or other 

 valuable species, all of one kind, you 

 would find a ready market for the timber, 

 in the same manner as your orchard ; if 

 all are winesaps, pippins or spys, you 

 have no trouble in securing the highest 

 prices for apples, but if no two trees are 

 alike you cannot sell the crops to ad- 

 vantage. 



If you plant a forest of quickly 

 maturing timber trees, and all of the 

 same kinds, these do not require planting 

 but once, they demand but little of your 

 time, growing while you sleep, as well 

 as in your waking hours, and they can- 

 not be manipulated by stock speculators 

 on the one hand or labor combinations on 

 tlic other. The improvidence character- 

 istic oi Americans has destroyed the 

 natural forests, and good timber is be- 

 coming scarcer each year, and will always 



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