March 23 
'X I FEj K.UB4.A.L, NEW-VORKER 
Planting Trees Along Country Roads. 
In your last issue I noticed that advice 
was given against planting trees along 
the highway, on the ground that the 
yield of crops inside the fences would 
thereby be somewhat lessened. This ad¬ 
vice may be good from a selfish stand¬ 
point, and may be not, but it ignores an 
important point which should be consid¬ 
ered, namely, our obligation to the com¬ 
munity in which we live. There is hardly 
any way in which a small expenditure 
would result in greater good to a whole 
community than the planting of shade 
trees along our country roads. It is 
hardly necessary to use your valuable 
space for even a summary of the reas¬ 
ons, since they are familiar to most per¬ 
sons of average intelligence. Suppose it 
to be true that trees planted along the 
highway cause a smaller yield of corn 
or potatoes. Would it not be more in 
accord with modern enlightenment and 
progress to advise your readers none 
the less to set out trees and to consider 
the resulting loss as a small part of that 
contribution which each of us owes to 
the public good? The fact is, however, 
that the amount of damage said to be 
caused by trees in any township is not 
worth considering for a moment when 
compared with the benefit which comes 
to every resident of the township from 
well-shaded highways. What many of 
our back country farmers need to learn 
is that no real improvement is made in 
the community which does not at the 
same time benefit every resident in that 
community. The virtue of unselfishness 
and public spirit, beside being its own 
reward, generally also brings a more 
substantial return which even the dullest 
can appreciate. Booker T. Washington, 
in a recent address to Southern negroes, 
urged them to think not how much they 
could get out of the community, but how 
much they could contribute to the com¬ 
mon welfare. If this advice is good for 
Southern negroes, it would seem worth 
considering by Northern white men. 
Connecticut. farmer. 
Headquarters for a Farm Hand. 
On page 325 a farm band, now in Porto 
Rico, asked where he could find a place 
for headquarters as hired man. His plan 
was to locate at some central point and 
hire out by day or week as wanted. The 
following notes have already come in: 
I think that the “hired man” S. D. C., 
whose letter you publish on page 325, could 
find “headquarters” near where I live in 
Redding, Conn. Much depends on how 
much of the time he wants to hire out and 
what he can do. Porto Rico doesn’t sound 
promising as a nursery for a New Eng¬ 
land farmer. Still, if he has worked in 
the West and South he may he all right. 
A really good man, accustomed to caring 
for fruits, gardens and field produce might 
find considerable to do in my locality. 
w. c. D. 
Referring to the inquiry of S. D. C. 
about a location where he could rent a 
small place and find employment by the 
day among neighboring farmers, it may be 
said that throughout southeastern Penn¬ 
sylvania there are numerous villages or 
towns where farm hands live in the way he 
suggests. By farming a few acres of to¬ 
bacco on shares, and working by the day 
as the farmers need extra help, during har¬ 
vesting, thrashing, corn cutting and husk¬ 
ing, they make a good living, probably 
above the average of the wage earners in 
the large cities. How to find such a loca¬ 
tion I am unable to say, but a trolley trip 
through Berks, Lancaster or Chester coun¬ 
ties would enable the right sort of a man 
to find just the place he wants, in all prob¬ 
ability. J. B. it. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
We do not live in either Ohio, Michigan, 
Massachusetts or Wisconsin, but there is 
just such an opening in our community as 
S. D. C., of Porto Rico, asks for. A com¬ 
fortable house with a garden can be rented 
reasonably and a good, steady man would 
find all the work he could do. Our settle¬ 
ment is three miles from the village of 
Berne and one mile from East Berne, on 
the rural delivery route. The place is in 
the Helderbergs, a northern extension of 
the Catskill Mountains, and is about 20 
miles from Albany, 14 miles from Schoharie 
and nine miles from Altamont, which is 
the nearest railway station. From April 
until December, however, our most direct 
communication with the city is by the 
Berne auto-bus line, which goes from Berne 
to Albany and return daily. C. S. D. 
Albany Co., N. Y. 
Selection of Seed Corn. 
In selecting seed corn we select certain 
sizes and shapes of ears, and many of us 
would be puzzled, should we ask ourselves, 
why we select this or that and reject the 
other. To some extent we are influenced 
by habit or the advice of others, and many 
of us have wondered what effect the se¬ 
lection of certain characters would have 
upon yield were the proper comparisons 
made. To make these comparisons or tests 
requires too much care and attention for a 
busy farmer to undertake, and the work 
properly belongs to the experiment sta¬ 
tions. The Ohio Experiment Station has 
tried to solve some of the problems relative 
to the effect of selection of certain types 
of seed ears upon the resulting yield. A 
number of experiments have been conducted, 
and some of the results of the work are 
given in a recent bulletin. The experi¬ 
ments will not be described here, but some 
of the important conclusions will be men¬ 
tioned. These tests have not extended over 
a long series of years, but most of the re¬ 
sults seem conclusive enough, and indicate 
that the selection of seed ears shorter than 
normal wiH reduce the yield, and if the se¬ 
lection be continuous, gradually shorten the 
ears. Shape of ear, whetner cylindrical or 
tapering, is unimportant. The selection of 
well-filled ears at the tips, particularly, if 
not at the expense of length or size, seems 
highly desirable. Large ears, except when 
the greater size be due to favorable en¬ 
vironment during growth, give larger yields 
and should have preference in selection. 
Seed corn, for any given condition, should 
be produced under inferior, rather than 
under superior conditions of growth. The 
main crop of corn on the farm should be 
planted with strains of corn known to be 
suited to the soil and climate, and seed 
from a distance should be used sparingly 
until well adapted to local conditions by 
selection. Altogether this bulletin is in¬ 
teresting and valuable and quite timely. 
Those who wish to study the results of the 
tests in detail and who are interested in 
the selection of seed corn can secure this 
bulletin by writing the Ohio Experiment 
Station. Wooster, Ohio, and asking for Bul¬ 
letin 212. w. E. D. 
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