TREES AM) FORESTRY 



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FIG 49. SEED PLANTERS. ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST. CALIFORNIA 



Trees should be planted on hillsides too steep to plow, in the East or in the West. 



a situation is to serve a double purpose, namely, furnish a tree crop for 

 market and protect agricultural land, it is best to plant nursery-grown stock 

 to control the species and hasten the reforesting. 



(5) Along sandy shores, or along mud banks of fixers and creek 

 Such forestation is imperative when the watercourses run through fertile soil 

 which washes away during fall and spring freshets. 



In addition to a wood lot there should be shelter belts of trees to protect 

 buildings, crops or stock feeding-grounds from prevailing winds. It is 

 advised that not less than one-eighth of a farm consist of woodland. Along 

 the exposed sides of a wood lot encourage the growth of a dense border of 

 shrubs and low trees to protect the woodland from drying and to prevent 

 windfalls. If a forest border is to be planted, choose a rapid-growing spe- 

 cies, stub as box elder, hardy catalpa or Carolina poplar, and one or more 

 slow-growing species for later and permanent protection, such as any of 

 the conifers. 



No tree crop in the East is likely to prove more profitable than white 

 pine, in the wood lot, on sandy shores, hilly fields or worn-out land. White 

 pine reaches marketable size in thirty-five years, i. e. growing close (6 to 

 9 feet apart each way) and tinpruned for box-board : . A tract of pine for 

 high-grade timber should remain uncut for a somewhat longer peroid. 

 Such a tract will increase it-, value greatly, even fifty per cent, if the trees 



