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ARBORICULTURE. 



Forestry Exhibits at Expositions. 



By far the great majority of so-called 

 forestry exhdbits at the various world o\- 

 positions are simply advertisements of 

 various states and localities, of the timlier 

 wliich may once have existed in vast quan- 

 tities and may yet have some timlier in 

 more or less reduced quantities, and arc- 

 bids to the world, ^'Come and take it. 

 come quickly." 



Seldom indeed do these exhibits ha\o 

 any reference whatever to Forttstky. 

 which name implies the care, management: 

 and perpetuation of the forests, not tlieir 

 hasty destruction. 



The art and principles of providing for 

 a continuous supply of timber for the us>3 

 of the citizens of the Statfe or Nation are 

 seldom considered in preparing such ex- 

 hibits. 



One hundred and twenty-two varieties 

 of timber are shown in as many picture 

 frames in the United States Building. 



In these frames are pictuies represent - 

 iro- scenes from the farms, the mines and 

 the forests >of the Western Kentucky coal 

 fields. 



Tlie planting of walnut, tulijj tree, io- 

 mist and eatalpa speoiosa ivs illustrated. 



A TIMBER PLANTING COMPANY. 



To Mr. John B. Atkinson, of Earling- 

 ton, President of the St. Bernard Mining 

 Company, the State of Kentucky owei: .\ 

 debt of gratitude for the etforts which 

 his company is making to perpetuate the 

 forests of the State. 



It was the privilege of the editor of this 

 journal to visit the forests of this com- 

 pany and inspect the timber and the plan- 

 tations. 



The miining companies of the [United 

 States are great consumers of wood, and 

 mining timbers are becoming more scarce 

 e?ich year — they can not w'ait 300 years 

 lor oak to grow to replace the timbers now 

 being used, 'and yet timber will be as nec- 

 essary in future as it is at present. 



But how many similar companies, min- 

 ing coal, iron or other minerals, are mak- 

 ing a.s good use of the land upon the sur- 

 face in growing timbers for future use in 

 tlie mines as the St. Bernard Compaiiy js 

 doling? 



It is indeed refreshing to observe a gre;it 

 corjDoration as the St. Bernard ^Mining 

 Company of Earlington, Ivy., take a dif- 

 ferent vicAv of matters and teach the ])eo- 

 ple to ])lant trees and maintain a pei-])(4- 

 ual forest. 



Since 1888 this company has planted 

 over one million black walnuts. During 

 the past two years 75,000 eatalpa speciosa 

 and 75,000 locust were planted on 't25 

 acres of farm land, SxS feet apait, and are 

 being cultivated. 



Tlie company plants annually I'fom 1 ";(> 

 to 250 bushels of nuts of the black wahiut 

 in vacant places in its forests and on 

 cleared lands, in Hopkins County, Ken- 

 tucky. 



In 1!»(»0 several thousand tulip trees 

 were planted on Parm land and at this 

 time 20,000 young tuli]i trees are ready to 

 be transplanted on farm lands or in va- 

 cant places in the forest. 



In reveiwing these tables we find that 

 31 trees of wdiite oak required from 75 to 

 166 years to Ijecome one foot in diametei. 



One tree was 325 years old when eut 

 and ^A'as then 41 inches in diameter, an 

 average of eight years' tinie to grow ■ iie 

 inch diameter. 



