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clover would come along and probably make a good showing 

 the next year. After the oats and clover have started, about one- 

 half the land can be planted in strips, not more than sixteen feet 

 wide and twenty-four feet apart. If these strips are planted with 

 almost any of our hardy trees, they should do well. For this 

 purpose the White Willow would be very desirable, but seedlings 

 of Boxelder, Green Ash or Norway Pine should also do well. 

 The strips of land in oats and clover will afford sufficient protec- 

 tion to the planted strips to protect them from wind injury. After 

 these strips are established and two or three years old the inter- 

 vening spaces may be broken up and planted without danger 

 of any further wind injury. 



6. A. has a piece of burned-over timber land on which there 

 are scarcely any seed-bearing trees of value; the valuable pines 

 have all been destroyed by successive burnings. Most of the 

 land is perhaps two miles from any seed-producing White Pine, 

 which was the most profitable tree on this land, and is undoubt- 

 edly now the most profitable tree that this soil can produce. He 

 would like to have it restocked with White Pine. How should 

 he go to work to do it? 



Answer: Since the seed-bearing trees are so far distant from 

 the land there is no use depending upon them for restocking the 

 soil with their seedlings, and the Poplar, Birch and Bird Cherry 

 will undoubtedly soon reign supreme here, if they do not already. 

 The best treatment is probably to gather White Pine seedlings 

 that are under one foot in height from the nearby forest, if they 

 can be obtained easily, and set them out, about twenty feet apart 

 each way, amongst the brush now found on the land, taking care 

 to make a little clearing, as it were, where each tree is planted. 

 The tendency will be for the worthless trees now growing on 

 the land to smother out the pines before they get started, and 

 it will be necessary each summer for several years to go over the 

 land and cut away those trees that are crowding the young pines 

 too severely. After these young pines- have become established 

 it is probable that they will be able to take care of themselves 

 in competition with the inferior species, and then the crowding 

 which they receive from the latter will be a good thing for them, 

 as it will cause them to take on an upright growth. Plantings of 

 this kind will probably cost somewhere about five dollars per 



