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'loom should be done, in the case of spring 

 '()oniing plants, immediately after flow- 

 ering; in the case of later blooming shrubs, 

 in late winter or early spring. The first 

 thing to do, however, is to become familiar 

 with the different shrubs and to know 

 what effect can best be secured with them ; 

 then a judicious use of the pruning shears 

 will be of benefit." 



WILL REFORESTATION PAY? 



W. H. Johnson. 



The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio. 



The writer was born on a hill farm of 

 southeastern Ohio. Through that farm 

 into the Ohio river ran a deep ravine, with 

 steep rocky sides. Among my earliest 

 memories are some immense tulip poplar 

 trees, standing along the sides of that ra- 

 vine, but cut and sold for "keg wood" 

 while I was still a little boy. Today the 

 'les of that ravine, too steep for agricul- 

 tural use, are grown up with a tangle of 

 trees, and shrubs and vines which make 

 ilendid bird and game shelter, but there 

 almost nothing of any economic value 

 -ide from that. In wandering through it 

 recently, however, I was struck by the sight 

 I if perhaps a dozen fine young tulip pop- 

 Urs, very straight and tall, as they reached 

 up for the light between those two hill- 

 'ies. 



-Vow in that stretch of useless ravine, 



through one not very large farm, there 



:.;ht have stood today at least 200 of 



ise poplars, 50 years of age, if at the 



lie when the original timber was cut, the 



.vner had foreseen the possibilities, in- 



trred the comparatively small expense of 



anting them, and given them the little 



ire which they would have needed as the 



irs went by. ."Kud can anyone doubt that 



that ravine contained 200 tall 50 year 



1 poplars today, the whole farm of about 



;!jo acres would have a sale value enough 



higher for that reason to yield a better 



profit by far than has been secured from 



any other investment of equal amount that 



has been made on the farm during the fifty 



intervening years? 



The farm in question originally had 

 much black walnut on it, some of which 

 was split into fence rails and some burned 

 in great log heaps to dear the ground for 

 tillage. At least half of its acreage is 

 better adapted to forest than to any other 

 possible use; and that farm is typical in 

 this respect of much of the so-called farm 

 lands in that section. There are large tracts 

 which should be acquired by the state, and 

 a very small beginning in that direction has 

 now been made. But it would be a great 

 economic blessing to the whole state if the 

 "farm wood-lot" idea could once get the 

 proper lodging in the minds of individual 



A block of Maples five to six inch caliper, twenty-flve to thirty feet high 



The Right Tree in the Right Place 



The right tree means a specimen which has been grown under the scientific care of a 

 reliable nursery. Trees thus grown are strong and straight, and so well nourished that the 

 usual setbacks of transplanting are minimized to the last degree. The right place is of nearly 

 equal importance. Soil conditions should he considered as well as the natural harmony of its 

 surroundings. Amawalk trees are dug and shipped with exacting care, and we are ready at 

 all times to furnish any information at our command concerning silviculture. Our cata- 

 logue, which we will be glad to send you, has considerable information devoted to this subject. 



Austrian Pines 11 to 16 feet 



Arborvitae 7 to 12 feet 



Hemlocks 11 to 16 feet 



Colorado Spruce 7 to 18 feet 



Norway Spruce 14 to 21 feet 



Norway Maples 16 to 35 feet 



Fin Oaks 16 to 35 feet 



European Beech 11 to 25 feet 



Lindens 12 to 26 feet 



Sugar Maples 16 to 35 feet 



WURSE^ 



New York City Office, 372 Lexington Avenue 



Telephone: VANDERBILT 7691 



Amawalk, Westchester Co., New York 



Telephone: YORKTOWN 128 



owners if they could only be made to see 

 that the gradual transformation of lO, or 

 20, or 50 acres of worthless hillside thick- 

 et into valuable tiinber would give the 

 whole farm a better sale value with each 

 decade of the process, up to the time when 

 actual harvesting of the timber should be- 

 gin. How to popularize this truth, arid set 

 thousands of farmers to acting upon it, is 

 one of the greatest forestry problems of to- 

 day. 



Nominate Your Friends For 



Membership 



In The Association 



THE NEBRASKA FORESTRY ASSO- 

 CIATION 



The wide and enthusiastic interest in 

 forestry in Nebraska has culminated in the 

 formation of a state forestry association, 

 which was finally organized in March. T. 

 W. McCullough, of OmaTia, is president; 

 Woodruff Ball, of Valentine, long identified 

 with forestry in Nebraska, is vice-president, 

 and Mrs. J. H. Corrick, of Palisaee, is 

 secretary. Hopes for success and real 

 achievement go with the infant organiza- 

 tion in its stated program to stimulate 

 planting in Nebraska, and an appreciation 

 of forestry and what it means to the people 

 of the state. 



