PLANTING TREES — COTTONWOOD. 459 



Sturgeon's Bay, Wis., and cost me, delivered at Waterloo by- 

 express, $2.00 per thousand. I planted in beds, and shaded 

 one year, then planted in rows in the nursery, and cultivated 

 another year. I then planted in the grove as early as the 

 buds started, and not later than corn planting time, and in the 

 same condition as for planting corn. 



PLANTING TREES. 



I have always had great success in planting trees, as I 

 never expose the roots. I planted my pine and larch grove in 

 rows four feet apart, and eight feet apart in the row, alternately, 

 and cultivated two years in corn and potatoes. 



I keep a nursery of all such material for sale, which has 

 paid me well, and given me trees for little or nothing. This 

 grove is seven years old, and the trees are ten to twelve feet 

 high. Their average growth each year is now two feet, and 

 though they stand too thick now, they are all the better for the 

 growth. I chop them down or thin them out for Christmas 

 trees, and also feed to the sheep for the pitch and tar that are 

 in them. They will eat both bark and branch. 



COTTONWOOD. 



Eighteen years ago I planted two rows of cottonwoods, 

 eight feet apart, one for posts and one for shade, sixteen feet 

 apart in each row alternately. On the other side of the road I 

 planted soft maples, forming a beautiful avenue, admired by all 

 who saw them. The trees grew well to the hight of fifty feet. 

 Their shade and roots claimed three rods of land from them. 

 In 1877 I chopped down one hundred and thirty-five trees in 

 one row, and cut off the other row ten feet high, making sixty 

 cords of five foot wood, which I hauled six miles and sold for 

 $5,00 per cord. The stumps grew one year, and died. I am 

 not sorry, as cottonwood trees are a nuisance on a line for posts, 

 or for any other use. 



ARTIFICIAL GROVES. 



I have twenty acres in six groves, and have tried trees of 

 almost every variety known from New York City to the Rocky 

 Mountains. For general cultivation I should plant European 



