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including buying the trees or seed and doing the planting, usually averages 

 five to twelve dollars an acre. This is assuming that all labor is paid for 

 at the usual rates per day. But if on the farm the planting is done by 

 the regular help, and also if the seed is collected and the trees raised at 

 home instead of being bought, the actual cash outlay may be very small. 

 The planting can be done very early in the spring, before the rush of 

 regular farm work begins. It costs more to plant evergreens than to start 

 such trees as oak and hickory by seed spots, but this fact should not 



FIG. 219. A group of white pines recently planted in an opening in a hardwood 



woodlot 



discourage the planting of pine and spruce, which yield larger crops than 

 do the hardwoods. 



Few species. An attempt should not be made to start too many different 

 kinds of trees, especially at first. It is wise to select the one or two or 

 three kinds that seem best adapted to the land to be planted. It is easier 

 and usually better to plant each kind alone on some part of the area, unless 

 there is some special reason for mixing them. 



Planting under other trees. Locust, poplar, yellow poplar (tulip tree), 

 hickory, catalpa, red oak, white ash, white pine, Scotch pine, western 

 yellow pine, and tamarack (larch) should not be planted under other 



