PROVEEBiyCrS OF THE FARMERS' ClUB. 565 



forests ? In Germany, government plants and cares for its forests as 

 ours does for its children, and the time is coming when, if ours is 

 not cared for, we will suifer for the need of it. 



The conclusion arrived at by planting 100 acres of locust are 

 these: The ^;'€e that is planted rarely succeeds well itself; but, 

 rffter the roots are once established, cut to the ground the suckers 

 thrown up from the thrifty tree. 



Trees from the seed are less valuable than those grown from roots. 

 There are two kinds of locust, white and yellow, the white being a 

 great seeder ; the vellow seldom seeding much, though I have seen 

 them bear quite large crops occasionally ; but this is the exception. 

 Persons buying seed would be likely to get the seed most easily 

 tjbtained and unreliable, as the white is comparatively worthless. 



Last spring, a friend of mine owning land in Chautauqua county, 

 N. Y., being desirous of planting locust, came here for seed ; and we 

 looked through the entire wood and found not one seed. But locust 

 he must have ; so, in the spring, I dug him a lot of trees, and having 

 had some experience in propagating the blackberry from root-cuttings, 

 I thought it would do equally well for locust ; so I pulled up long 

 roots, the size of my finger and less, which were cut up three or four 

 inches long, and were planted in rows ; and he tells me they grew 

 equally well with the trees ; and I think that little bits of roots, 

 buried after the original wood is cut off, will prove an easy way to 

 propagate this valuable, profitable, and quick-growing timber, and 

 this idea will greatly simplify and lessen the expense of planting it in 

 the far "West, as thousands of the rootlets could be packed in a few 

 cubic feet of box with a little moss, and be sent across the continent, 

 to be planted on the slopes of the Rocky mountains, or the shores of 

 the Great Salt Lake, or, in fact, anywhere where 'a good, quick- 

 growing, lasting timber is required, which is as widespread as our 

 great country. 



Tribute to the Memory of the late E.. G. Pardee. 

 The Chairman said, \vith deep emotion : When the club convened, 

 I thought that on account of the unexpected death of one of our 

 number, it would only be showing due respect to our departed friend 

 and co-laborer, Pichard G. Pardee, to adjourn for one week ; for it is 

 with feelings of sadness that we record his unexpected dejDarture from 

 this land of death. But, were he to speak to us from that glorjpus 

 realm whither he has been translated, would he say, suspend your 



