064 HOW TO MAKE THE FARM PAY. 



the best methods of growing the different kinds of trees, as well 

 as a list of the most valuable species and varieties. 



About (Jatiikrtno Nuts — Timber Grovting, etc. — Black and 

 white walnuts should be gathered as soon as they fall from the 

 trees, and planted at once, as follows: — Draw furrows six feet 

 apart and three or four inches deep, drop the nuts from two to 

 luur feet apart in the row, cover them four or five inches deep and 

 Ntep on each one, or what is better, roll with a common two-horse 

 roller; this packs the soil and prevents them from drying out, so 

 that the frosts of winter will burst the shells, and most of them 

 will come up the ensuing spi'ing. Should any of them fail to 

 pome the first season, they are very sure to come the second. 

 Besides these, the chestnut, and horse chestnut, and the beech nut 

 may be obtained at a trifling expense from the States east of us, 

 where the timber abounds, and the trees produced without any diffi- 

 culty, if you are careful to prevent the nuts from becoming dry, 

 by i)lacing them in moist earth or sand, and keeping them secni- - 

 from mice and frost till the time for planting in the spring ; then 

 plant the same distance apart as other trees, and cultivate two or 

 tiiree seasons so as to keep down all weeds ; or, wdiat is better, as 

 soon as the trees are up a foot or two, mulch thoroughly with 

 straw or slough hay. All trees, fruit, or forest thrive much 

 lietter for mulching, as all trees in their natural positions, in 

 groves or large tracts of timber, are annually mulched by the 

 falling leaves, which keep tlie ground moist about their roots, 

 except in long continued droughts. If we imitate nature in this 

 respect, we shall doubtless find trees flourishing just as well in a 

 prairie as a timbered count ly. 



In addition to the above named, or any otfcer of our deciduous 

 fui-est trees, every man wants evergreens in proportion to his 

 means to purchase, ami the room to be occupied. But, in the 

 second place, where do we want trees? If our location admits 

 our building on the north or west sides of the road, we want thick 

 bells of timl)er north and west of our buildings, — evergreens, if 

 we can aflbrd them, as being altogether a better wind-break thnn 

 deciduous trees ; but, at all events, plant trees, and plant them ..o 

 close (two or three rows wotild be better than one) that after a 

 few years they will prove a pretty effectual barrier to the cold 

 blasts of winter, furnishing a grateful shelter to man and beast. 

 If you havii to build on the east or south side of the road you 

 camot have the same amount of shelter without obstructing 'the 

 view of the road ; but even in these situations, by no means the 

 most desirable, by setting your buildings farther back from the 

 road, if on the east side, plant north of your buildings a belt of 

 trees as thick as they will grow, with rather more in front of the 

 house than would be admissible if the house fticed the east or 

 south; likewise, if your house is south of the road, plant your 

 trees plentifully on the west, but on the east and south of youi 



