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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. 
