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ctiltivation. I estimate the cost of preparing an acre, and getting the cuttings of soft 

 maple or ash (they can be had by the thousand along our streams) at $3 per acre. A 

 man can plant two and a-half acres per day. That is all the cost for ten years, except 

 interest and taxes on land. I have 1,361 trees per acre ; seven years from planting, I 

 will cut one-fourth, or 340 trees, equal to fifteen cords of wood ; the eighth year fifteen 

 cords more ; the ninth the same ; the tenth year you see my profits. I should cut what 

 is left, 456 trees. Allow four trees to the cord, so as not to overestimate it. I have several 

 trees only ten years old, which are fourteen inches in diameter and fifty feet high ; four, I 

 think, would make a cord. Allowing six trees to the cord, we have seventy-six cords, and 

 with forty-five cords cut before, 121 cords. At"$3 per cord, allowing $1 for cutting, I have 

 8242. I contend that five acres planted to cottonwood, after a growth of seven years, 

 will furnish one family with fuel for one stove a life-time, and sell enough to pay for the 

 use of the land besides. I claim, after fifteen years' experience in' tree-planting on this 

 plan, which I adopted last spring, on Arbor Day, on my new farm in Otoe County, 

 Nebraska, that the white willow is equal to soft maple for wind-breaks and fuel, and 

 superior to all trees for rapidity of growth, as well as good for timber. Chestnut, too, 

 IS super-excellent. The climatic influence of timber is discernible in the regular attrac- 

 tion of rain and tempering the chilly winds of winter." 



PLANTING IN NEBRASKA. 

 (From an Article by Jaines Morris.) 



" What shall we plant in Nebraska that will most quickly and fully meet our require- 

 ments?" Shelter and shade are our immediate and imperative necessity. To provide 

 these we unhesitatingly recommend, first of all, our native trees, in the following order ; 

 soft maple, willow, cottonwood, buckeye, ash. The maple is raised from the seed as 

 easily as corn ; makes a good shelter when strictly planted in rows, and a grateful shade 

 where room is given to its lateral branches. It furnishes a fuel, which, though it does not 

 consume as slowly as oak and hickory, makes a good hot fire. The willow, objected to 

 by many as a harbour for insects, yet offers a complete break to the keen winds, grows 

 rapidly to a good size, and some varieties, as the white and the weeping willow, furnish 

 good timber for fuel and manufacturing purposes. The common osier, planted upon wet 

 spots, will pay as well as any other crop on the farm. Cuttings of all varieties are easily 

 and cheaply secured. 



" As a source of profit the raising of trees in Nebraska ranks next to the raising of 

 stock. A quarter section planted with chestnut, spruce, larch, maple, mammoth aspen, 

 or even inferior trees, would, in ten years, yield a satisfactory return for the investment." 



Close Planting op Cottonwood. 



"Judge Whiting, of Monona County, Iowa, remarked in 1869, that he had at first 

 planted cottonwood eight feet apart each way, giving each tree sixty -four square feet of 

 ground. They grew well, but too many branches in proportion to the amount of bodyof wood. 

 He had adopted the rule of planting three feet each way, giving nine square feet to a 

 tree, and in this order they grew tall and straight, soon shaded the ground, and in three 

 years needed no further cultivation than thinning as became necessary, by removing 

 alternate rows and drawing out the poles with one horse and a chain." 



