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an interest awakened on the subject. I would have all 

 trees furnished at public expense and made the teacher's 

 business to see that they were not destroyed after being 

 planted. In this way the school ground would ere long 

 become a place of beauty instead of, as is too often the 

 case, a plat of ground overgrown with weeds, except 

 where worn smooth with feet in play. I think much 

 good might result from such planting. I would also 

 have a day set apart for general planting, and encourage 

 it by offering premiums for the best grove of trees, such 

 as walnut, ash, elm, locust of the thornless varieties, and 

 such as are likely to be more valuable in the future than 

 cottonwood, box-elder, etc., which may be very good to 

 start with, but which do not make a good permanent 

 grove. Then there are the evergreen, such as the Scotch, 

 Austrian, white, and red pines, Norway and white spruce, 

 white and red cedar. These trees are becoming so low 

 priced as to be within the reach of all, and there is 

 nothing more beautiful or valuable on any place than an 

 evergreen windbreak in the winter time. 



BY J. B. MITCHELL, CEESCO. 



NORTH CENTRAL. For this locality I would advise 



the planting of more hard maple, white ash, black walnut, 



and butternut. Soft maple, willow, and cottonwood have 



been extensively planted, and make a quick growth for 



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