26 Eleventh Annual Report 



value of planting ash in a pure stand at a distance of 8x8 feet 

 apart with, corn as an undercrop. All of the tract that is adapted 

 to the growing of ash was planted with that species. The low 

 ground was planted in a similar manner with elm and sycamore 

 in alternate rows. The value of pruning, if any, will be demon- 

 strated by pruning one^half of the tract and leaving the other 

 half to grow without pruning. 



The tract was plowed last fall, disced and marked out 4x4 

 this spring at a total cost of $3.20 per acre. The seedlings used 

 were twelve to eighteen inches in length. The ash were grown 

 in the nursery on the reservation and are estimated to cost $1.75 

 per thousand. The elm seedlings cost $6 per thousand, delivered, 

 and the sycamore $11.20 per thousand, delivered. The items of 

 expense on this tract for the year are as follows : 



Preparation of ground, seedlings and planting $51 19 



Seed corn and planting the corn 5 22 



Fertilizer 3 75 



Four cultivations 13 32 



Cutting and husking the corn 16 88 



Total $90 36 



Credited with 123 shocks of fodder at 10 cents and 153 bushels of 

 com at 50 cents 88 80 



Expense balance $1 56 



This tract will be cultivated and undereropped in corn next 

 year, and the undercrop should more than pay the expense of 

 cultivation, which will start the plantation free of debt. 



Tract 44. 



This tract is comparatively level, with the natural drainage to 

 the. east. The soil is a thin clay loam. Average elevation, 625 

 feet. The area is 3.90 acres. 



This tract was begun in the fall of 1906 by planting the seeds 

 of chestnut and walnut, in rows five feet apart and five feet apart 

 in the rows. Every third row was planted with walnut. The 

 planting resulted in a fair stand of walnut, but the chestnuts 

 failed to grow and elm seedlings were planted in their stead, and 

 they also failed to grow. 



This spring the spaces between the rows of walnut were plowed 

 aji(^ two rows of locust planted in each space. Loeust is adapte(i 



