Growing and Planting Hardwood Seedlings. 



from the building or yard. Snow drifts under the lee of such a wind- 

 break and lies deep around buildings or a feed lot close to it. 

 This drifting may be partially prevented by planting two such narrow 

 windbreaks parallel to each other and about two rods apart. Snow 

 will then drift into and for the most part be held in this intervening 

 space. 



Windbreaks for crop protection should be located so as to protect 

 the crop from the most damaging winds, usually summer winds. 

 As efficient windbreaks exert their protective influence along the 

 surface to a distance of from fifteen to twenty times their height, 

 the intervals between them should be about fifteen or twenty times 

 the height of the trees at their maturity. 



ESTABLISHMENT OF PLANTATION. 

 PLANTING OF STOCK. 



In starting a grove, the planter ordinarily has the choice of using 

 seedlings, seed, or cuttings. Seedlings 1 or 2 years old are preferable 

 in the great majority 

 of cases. They arc 

 fairly cheap and have 

 the best chance of 

 succeeding. 



Nut trees, such as 

 walnut, hickory, and 

 oak, develop a very 

 deep taproot and few 

 lateral feeding roots 

 during their first year. 

 They can not ordi- 

 narily be transplanted 

 to the field so success- 

 fully as other trees, so 

 that planting the nuts 

 or acorns on the per- 

 manent site is usually 

 considered preferable. 

 Black walnut planta- 

 tions have been suc- 

 cessfully started by 

 the use of sprouted 

 nuts. It would seem that the same method might be followed with 

 other nut trees. 



Cottonwood and willow plantations are most easily started with 

 cuttings. These are simply from 12 to 14-inch sections taken from 



FIG. 2. Shellbark hickory plantation, 27 years old. 

 County, 111. 



Champaign 



