280 PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 



APPEAL TO AMERICAN FARMERS. PROVIDE AN INCOME FOR 



THE FUTURE. 



To the Farmers of America. 



Year in and year out, American farmers plow the land, sow the seed, 

 reap, and send to market the various grain, hay or produce, each season 

 demanding seed, labor and expense, repeated as the years roll on, from youth 

 to old age. A few become rich by reason of advancing values in lands, not 

 many make more than a living during a lifetime of toil. 



American youth tires of this continuous drudgery and drift to the great 

 cities, in hopes that by successful speculations they may gain wealth without 

 the expenditure of such labor. 



Combinations of capital control the price of your productions. Unions 

 among the elements of labor decide the cost of your help. In every branch 

 of industry and all forms of business are alliances to limit the income of the 

 agricultural class. The hours of labor in the cities are short the day of 

 the farmer is double the length of that of his city brother. 



Why not produce something in addition to grains and grasses which 

 will relieve you of part of this incessant toil, and which will ever be in demand 

 at remunerative prices? 



You who have made homes in the wilderness of forest, and by slow and tire- 

 some degrees cleared the fields for tillage, are aware of the small value of wood in 

 the mixed forest. Here and there is a good tree, but the majority is of no 

 special value for the lumberman, '-and only adds to the labor of clearing. 

 This is owing to the methods used by nature in planting the seed, sowing 

 it promiscuously by wind, animals and birds. 



If every tree on your land was a walnut, or a hickory, yellow poplar or 

 other valuable species, all of one kind, you would find a ready market for 

 the timber, in the same manner as your orchard : if all are wine saps, pippins 

 or spys, you have no trouble in securing the highest prices for apples, but if 

 no two trees are alike, you cannot sell the crops to advantage. 



If you plant a forest of quickly maturing timber trees, and all of the 

 same kinds, these do not require planting but once, they demand but little 

 of your time, growing while you sleep, as well as in your waking hours, and 

 they cannot be manipulated by stock speculators on the one hand or labor 

 combinations on the other. The improvidence characteristic of Americans 

 has destroyed the natural forests, and good timber is becoming scarcer every 

 year, and will always be in demand at rapidly increasing values. 



