

MISCELLANEOUS AGRICULTURAL SUBJECTS. 619 



30. Run no risks from animals, or breaking by snow drifts, and allow 

 no saplings or growths from the old stumps to interfere with those 

 planted. 



31. Sheep may be admitted to graze after ten years, no cattle for 

 twenty. 



32. The second year is the trying one ; you may have buds and leaves 

 the first year, and a dead plant the second, if good the third year, con- 

 gratulate. 



33. Make good any deaths for the first three years, not afterwards. 



34. Always have a few hundred plants ready in your garden nursery. 



35. Never burn the grass among your trees, but use the scythe when 

 too rank. 



36. Never allow the drying of clothes on the young plants. 



37. Do not prune the pine, spruce, or any of the resinous sorts. 



38. Thin out the least valuable sorts, or those you do not wish to retain 

 permanently, whenever they begin to interfere six inches into the branch- 

 es of each other. 



39. It is no over-calculation to say that where the influence of trees is 

 needed, the gain, after fifteen years, will amount annually to $200 over a 

 hundred acre farm. 



40. If you plant at 1 2 or 1 5 feet apart you will be ten years behind 

 those at seven feet, when each are 25 years old. 



41. We do not deserve well of our country if we cannot establish trees 

 at a cost not to exceed 5 cents each. 



42. The cost of planting one acre, irrespective of fencing, which will 

 depend upon form and any advantages from local causes will be about : 



Lifting and trenching 900 plants in October ......... $10 00 



Opening 000 pits ......................................... 17 00 



Planting ................................................. 8 00 



for three years .................................. 10 00 



: 00 

 if you purchase from public inn he cost will !> al'oiit S100 



U-. (let your Townsliip Council t-> ]>rtiti<m ( l>\ .-rnment to institute a 

 regnl.-i <>f i. --planting l>y statutory enactment-. 



