46 BULLETIN" 299, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table 19.- — Species for planting in mixture with ash. 





Species of ash to be planted. 



Site. 



White ash. 

 Biltmore ash. 



Green ash. 

 Red ash. 



Black ash. 





Best species to plant in mixture. 





Hard maple.i 

 White pine. 2 

 Black locust. 1 

 Red oak. 2 

 Beech. 1 

 European larch. 2 



White pine. 

 Silver maple. 4 

 Cottonwood. 3 

 Yellow poplar. 3 



White pine. 

 Silver maple. 

 Russian mulberry. 1 

 Red oak. 2 

 European larch. 



Cottonwood. 3 

 Willow. 2 

 Red maple. 1 

 Loblolly pine. 2 

 Cypress. 2 

 Yellow poplar. 3 

 Pin oak. 2 







White pine. 





Spruce. 



Larch. 



Elm. 









American larch. 2 

 Elm. 



1 Secondary tree; not liable to overcrowd ash. 



2 Principal tree; not liable to overcrowd ash. 



3 Principal tree; liable to overcrowd ash, and should be sparingly planted and given plenty of room in 

 mixture with ash. 



4 Secondary tree; liable to overcrowd ash and should be thinned out subsequently where necessary, or 

 cut back and allowed to sprout up again. 



The general rule should be to cultivate the planted ash stands 

 twice a season for two or three seasons wherever practicable (Pl.XY), 

 except, perhaps, on the best moist, fairly well drained, permeable 

 loamy sites, such as fertile alluvial river bottoms, where the trees 

 will take hold and grow well without cultivation. 



COST OF PLANTING. 



The cost of planting on unprepared sites, where plowing or culti- 

 vation of any kind is impracticable, will range about as follows: 



Cost of seedlings (delivered at the site) $2 to $6, average $4 per 1.000 



Cost of setting 3 to 9, average 6 per 1,000 



Total 5 to 15, average 10 per 1.000 



This is figuring that one man at $1.25 to $2 per day will plant 200 

 to 400 seedlings per day. Home-grown seedlings could often be 

 produced for less than $2 per 1,000, so $4 for average cost per 

 1,000 of seedlings is conservative. 



Using $10 per 1,000 (a very liberal amount to allow even for cut- 

 over forest land) for cost of plantations, their cost per acre for 

 different spacings would be as given in Table 20. 



Table 20. — Cost per acre of establishing ash plantations on unprepared ground with cost 

 of plants $4 per 1,000 and cost of setting at $6' per 1,000. 



Spacing feet. . 



8 by 8. 



7 by 7. 



6 by 7. 



6 by 6. 



5 by 5. 



Number of plants 



G81 



889 



1,038 



1,210 



1,743 







Cost of plants 



$2.72 

 4.09 



$3.56 

 5.33 



$4.15 

 6.23 



$4.84 

 7.26 



$6.97 



Cost of setting 



11.46 







Total 



7.81 



8.89 



10.38 



12.10 



17.43 







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