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Fkj. 436— a Black Walnut Tbee. 



BLACK WALNUT TREES FOR LUMBER-L 



OW that the older plans of farming operations, too long persisted in 

 in this province, are slowly but certainly giving way to more intelli 

 gent systems, the present appears to be a seasonable time to again 

 draw the attention of land-owners to the advisability of tree planting, 

 as one of the best means of increasing the productiveness of the 

 soil, and thereby securing greater prosperity to the farming com- 

 munity in the near future, with a certainty of greater pecuniary 

 reward at a more remote future. 



During the past twenty years, when so many new ideas, methods and plans 

 have been advanced solely in the interest of the owners and tillers of the soil, 

 no other proposition has been received with so much approbation and with so 

 few objections as that of the necessity and the desirability of tree planting, as a 

 means towards public prosperity ; and yet but little or nothing has been 

 accomplished. The principal cause of this inactivity seems to be that the 

 immediate pecuniary advantages to be derived from this source is obtainable 



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