Profitable Tree Planting 



bur oak, white and green ash, grow farther north. Black walnut, 

 post and white oak, and the red juniper are all worth growing 

 for profit in the states bordering the Missouri. In fact, the 

 whole upper valley of the Mississippi is in need of tree planting 

 to supply the local needs in the next two or three decades, until 

 a definite forest policy is adopted. There will be demand for 

 all such tree crops, as long as wooden posts and ties and poles 

 are used. 



EUCALYPTUS PLANTATIONS 



The "blue gum" is but one of forty species of the Australian 

 genus, Eucalyptus, which have been naturalised in this country. 

 In the tree-planting experiments of California and the semi-arid 

 Southwestern States these immigrant trees are comparable to 

 the catalpa in Kansas. They are propagated from seeds, which 

 are light and abundant. They grow with astonishing vigour 

 and rapidity, sprouting from the stump indefinitely. Most of 

 them have very hard wood, and its durability under water and 

 in the soil justifies the growing of it for paving blocks, railroad 

 ties, posts, telegraph poles and piles for wharves. Some species 

 have wood like hickory, used for tool handles, implements of 

 agriculture and vehicles. Much is consumed as fuel. 



Added to the wood value of these trees are such products 

 as gums and resins useful in medicine and in the arts. The oil 

 expressed from the leaves is exceptionally valuable in the drug 

 trade. The flowers of many species furnish copious bee pastur- 

 age. The trees have beautiful evergreen leaves, graceful habit, 

 handsome bark, and finally, curious, nut-like fruits all char- 

 acters that give the trees popularity among available ornamental 

 kinds. As a forest cover and a windbreak the eucalypts have a 

 serious work to do. Denuded slopes that threatened the exhaus- 

 of water supply have been planted with these trees with most 

 gratifying results. They have drained swamps, thus removing 

 miasma and, as many believe, improving the climate in other 

 tangible ways. 



Waste land planted to blue gum (Eucalyptus globosus) is 

 transformed in five years into a beautiful grove from which fuel 

 may be cut. Successive clean cuttings, six to eight years apart, 

 are followed by sprouting from the stumps. An average yield 



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