68 COMPLETE INSTRUCTION IN 



1. As a forest tree, when ninety to one hun- 

 dred and fifty trees may be planted to the acre, 

 and the trees be allowed to grow tall, as well as 

 to branch out laterally. This style of planting 

 involves more labor in gathering the leaves, than 

 any other. 



2. Trees may be planted as a mulberry grove, 

 when twelve hundred trees may be put on one 

 acre. In this style the trees are never allowed 

 to grow tall, nor have they room to spread very 

 far, as the branches are constantly clipped off, 

 giving room for others, and still others, to take 

 the places of those cut off. In this case it is 

 much easier to get at the leaves, nor are they so 

 liable to be battered by the wind. 



The Chinese never let their trees grow more 

 than three years, as they constantly replace the 

 old with new slips, and dig up the old. 



The third style is the mulberry hedge. This 

 is an especially good way for early spring feed- 

 ing, as the leaves come out earlier, and are 

 better sheltered from the winds by the multitude 

 of branches. 



CULTIVATION. 



Whatever the order of planting, all mulberries 

 should be well and regularly cultivated, fertilized 

 occasionally, and irrigated when the soil de- 

 mands it. 



A loose, sandy soil is best for the mulberry of 



