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He will guard and protect them in every need- 

 ful way. But the one who plants on the larger 

 scale, the one who is planting a grove or a 

 wind-break covering acres in extent, the one 

 who is undertaking to secure his timber-claim 

 on the prairie, is in danger of neglecting his 

 trees after having planted them, and of suffer- 

 ing loss in consequence, perhaps of finding his 

 tree-planting almost, if not quite, a failure. He 

 is likely to be a farmer, occupied with other 

 crops as well as with his trees. He may not 

 be, probably is not, a capitalist, with the means 

 of employing all the help he needs. He i^ 

 struggling, it may be, with the hardships inci- 

 dent to a new settlement, and is carving out 

 his future with his own hands. Pressed with 

 the other and ordinary cares of his farm, and 

 knowing that the trees are not to make imme- 

 diate returns of value, like the corn, he will be 

 very likely to leave them to themselves, and to 

 think that, as they have been planted, they will 

 of course grow. The consequence is, that weeds 

 spring up among them and rob them of their 

 needed nourishment, or they wither for lack of 

 protection from the sun and wind. 



