260 NEBRASKA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Clarence Wedge, a promineni nurseryman in Minnesota, and for 

 years president of the Horticultural Society, speaks in the highest 

 terms of them. He says: "We noted a number of trees that would make 

 logs sixty feet long that had a difference of only ten inches between the 

 ends." Instead of wasting itself in side branches it retains its size as it 

 mounts upward, as if in great haste to make a good saw log. It grows 

 very straight, which makes it very desirable for quick results for wind- 

 breaks, driveways and avenues. It is in such a hurry to get there that 

 there is the greatest call for it of any tree, being the most rapid grower 

 of any for our Northern states. 



It is some like the Carolina, so much so that for the first few months 

 you may think them identical, but wait — there is a difference. 



FOR FENCE POSTS. 



Nebraska alone spends a million dollars a year for fence posts. Plant 

 Norways, care for them and in five or six years you have several thousand 

 from an acre. Cut and peel them ih August. Pile them up cob-house 

 fashion and let them dry thoroughly. Throw them on a burning brush 

 pile and char them slightly about three feet up or dip them in hot coal 

 tar and you have a post costing about five cents that will last for years. 

 We have seen the lumber. It is better than pine for bridge planks, for 

 framing, for sheathing and flooring, and dressed with hard oil it does 

 well for casings. 



When you find a tree in such a desperate hurry you ought to help it 

 along. Most farms have low rich spots, the ideal place for weeds where 

 you have been gi-owing them successfully for years, just the place for 

 Norways. Set these unproductive spots to raising houses and barns and 

 you can get a good crop of them in about twenty years. Hundreds of 

 men have cut $300 worth of cottonwood to an acre in twenty-five years 

 and had the land left all the better for the trees. Can you guess what 

 lumber will be twenty years from now with the great timber famine 

 coriiing down upon us ravenously devouring our forests? Your hundred- 

 dollar land should get busy. You cannot afford to keep idle places when 

 they might bring you a rental of $12 to $15 per acre per year. Yo\i just 

 plant it and look on. The trees do the work. 



An Overlooked Opportunity, 

 possfbrlities of the sandhills. 



Nebraska land is all the while rising in value and it is strange that 

 the possibilities of a fourth of our great state have been overlooked. It is 

 taken for granted that sandy land is worthless. For some things it is 

 the best land in the world. 



What is the experience of Europe? In the days of Xapoleon, between 

 the Gironde and the Pyrenees there was a tract of drifting sands which 

 was a menace to the fairest portions of France. When the gales blew 



