15 



HARDY CATALFA. 



A considerable amount of hardy catalpa and its hybrids has been 

 planted in southeastern Nebraska. The hardy kind succeeds well in 

 this part of the State, but most of the hybrid forms have failed, and 

 on this account catalpa is in ill repute with many people. A study of 

 the table, however, will prove that hardy catalpa will not only suc- 

 ceed, but under right conditions will yield paying returns. Planta- 

 tion 4 is now being harvested. Six acres were cut clear the past two 

 winters, and the fence posts have yielded a gross return of $207 per 

 acre. The owner values the additional fuel wood at $5 per acre. The 

 cost of harvesting the crop was $25 per acre. The hrst-class posts 

 sell for 14 cents, the second-class for 9 cents, the third-class, or stakes, 

 for 4 cents. The value of the fence posts in No. 12 is $332 per acre, 

 and material worth $52 per acre has been sold from this plantation in 

 the past two years, making its gross value $383 per acre, to say noth- 

 ing of the large number of posts that were previously cut from it. 



All the plantations herein reported are in the region south of 

 the Platte River and east of Hastings. As a rule, the species has 

 not done well west of York. It was not found in plantation form 

 north of the Platte River, tho many single trees in good condition 

 were noted. Successful plantations may be seen at Yankton and 

 Vihorg, S. Dak. Hardy catalpa can probably be grown on good soils 

 thruout the region covered by this report, except in the sand hills. 

 Wherever it will succeed, no other tree will pa}^ so well. It requires 

 a deep, fertile, porous soil, and the situation is still more desirable if 

 the water table is within 10 or 15 feet of the surface. These condi- 

 tions exist in many of the river bottoms, especiallv in the Platte River 

 Valley. 



Table 5. — Yield of hardy catalpa. 



County. 



Pawnee 



do 



Richardson 



Butler 



Lancaster.. 



Adams 



Richardson 



York 



do 



do 



Lancaster . . 



Nemaha ... 



Acres. 

 13 

 8 



.75 



14.50 



.76 



.32 



.50 



2.50 



1.70 



2 



.52 

 2.40 



I Dominant 

 i trees. 



Yrs. 

 14 

 15 

 17 

 19 

 20 

 20 

 20 

 21 

 23 

 24 

 25 

 26 





In. 

 4.3 

 3.1 

 2.9 

 3.7 

 3.3 



4.7 



5 



5.5 



6.7 



6.6 





1,583 



2,571 



2,624 



1,747 



800 



1,737 



376 



406 



241 



592 



Yield per acre. 



Total. 



Posts. 



Cu.ft. 



Cords. 



iVo. 



2,378 



27.7 



647 



1,687 



19.1 



18 



2,196 



25.5 



220 



1,759 



20.5 



460 



1,010 



11.7 





1,229 



14.3 



34 



1,237 



14.4 



721 



651 



7.6 



242 



651 



7.6 



326 



1,421 



16.5 



702 



1,655 



19.2 



931 



4,129 



48 



1,829 



No. 



,363 

 510 

 156 



,096 

 256 

 179 

 300 

 140 

 150 

 632 

 542 

 845 



Total. 



No. 



2,010 



528 



376 



1,556 



256 



213 



1,021 



382 



476 



1,234 



1,473 



2.674 



Average annual 

 posts. j 



No. 

 46.2 

 1.2 

 12.9 

 24.2 



1.7 

 36.1 

 11.5 

 14.2 

 29.3 

 37.2 

 73.2 



2d. [Total. 



No. 

 97.3 

 34 



9.2 

 57.7 

 12.8 



9 

 15 



6.7 



6.6 

 22.2 

 21.7 

 33.8 



No. 



143.6 

 36.2 

 22.1 

 81.9 

 12.8 

 10.7 

 5L1 

 18.2 

 20.7 

 51.4 

 58.9 



107 



Fuel 

 wood. 



Cords. 

 2 



1.3 

 L5 

 1.1 

 .6 

 .7 

 .7 

 .4 



[Cir. 45] 



