FREE—5000 COLORADO BLUE 
SPRUCE SEED FROM THE BIRDSEY DO¬ 
NATION WITH EACH BUNDLE OF 250 
TREES, which will make the cheapest and 
most beautiful zig-zag 2-row, 125-foot line, 
reet or alley hedge fence. 
' Id by the nurseries in bundles of 250 only. 
A' PRICE ON 1000 OR MORE. 
YOU DO NOT WISH TO PLANT 
COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE SEED, WHICH 
S' or Id) PRODUCE THOUSANDS OF 
TREES TURN THEM OVER OT YOUR 
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, FOR 
THE PUPILS. 
Barberry, Japanese, 9-12"- $6.00 
Dogwood, Siberian, 12-18". 8.00 
Mock Orange, Snow, 12-18" . 5.00 
Privett, Amur River North, 12-18" . 5.00 
’> ” ” South, 12-18". 5.00 
California, 12-18". 4.50 
Ibolium, 12-18" . 5.00 
Spirea, Anthony Waterer, 12-15" .12.00 
” Billardi Alba, 12-18" . 3.50 
>> ” Pink, 12-18" . 6.00 
” Pink Fortune, 12-18" . 3.50 
” Douglassi, 12-18" - 4.50 
” Thungergi, 12-18" . 12-00 
” Van Houttei, 12-18" . 4.00 
Rose of Sharon, 12-18" EX. 3.50 
Popular, Chinese Lombardy. 12-18". 3.50 
Plain Tree, American, 12-18" . 3.00 
Hickory Shagback, 8-12" .10.00 
Wegelia, Pink, 12-18". 5.00 
Tree of Heaven, 12-18" . 3.50 
Williow, Wisconsin Weeping, 5 ft. 6.00 
Walnut, Black 12-18" A.N.B. 3.50 
Oak, Chestnut, 12-18" . 4.50 
” Red, 6-12" . 4.00 
° Scarlet, 8-12" .4.00 
” White, 6-12" . 4 00 
SCOTCH HEATHER 
Seed from Scotland. Every family should 
have a Scotch Heather Bed.. package—10c 
bag—33 cents. Postage paid. 
The tree above (left) will produce one 8 or 
10 foot log. The trees (right) planted accord¬ 
ing to the Betz Plan (see diagram below) will 
produce more first-quality lumber free from 
knots on one acre than 20 acres of trees grow¬ 
ing at random in the woods. 
I am told this information to be used on 
a large scale for planting trees for lumber has 
never been published before. 
By the way - should you not want it today, 
file it away and some day some frend of yours 
will be glad to know how to produce 15% 
more lumber to an acre. The only plon that 
will produce 15% more first-quality lumber 
free from knots. 
s hows how to grow 782 walnut or other trees 
per acre, 8 foot centers, instead of 680 trees 
8x8 foot. The object of planting 4 ft. .north 
and south with rows 3% ft. wide and then 
removine the trees with the circles when they 
commence to crowd is to compel them to 
grow up instead of branching out and make 
2 or 3 straight 16-foot logs free from knots 
instead of one 10-foot log. 
The 102 trees gained by planting 8 foot 
centers will pay for the land, cost of trees 
and labor for planting. 
Taxes on land with trees in most states are 
from 3 to 5 cents an acre. In some states 
there is no tax until the trees are cut. 
25 Million To Be Given Away 
B. A. BIRDSEY, MINING ENGINEER, CREEDE, COLORADO. HAS DONATED 25 
MILLION COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE TREE SEED TO BE GIVEN TO ANYONE 
WHO,WILL TAKE AN INTEREST IN THIS WORK AND PURCHASE TREES FOR 
PUPILS, SCOUTS, 4H CLUBS, PARKS AND SCHOOL GROUNDS. 
TO MAKE THIS OFFER ATTRACTIVE SO SOMEONE IN EVERY COMMUNITY 
WILL ASSIST.PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IN CARRYING OUT HIS THEE PLANTING 
PROGRAM, WE WILL SEND 100,000 OF THE BIRDSEY T COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE 
SEED, and 150,000 NORWAY SPRUCE, AUSTRIAN and SCOTCH PINE SEED, making 
250,000, which should produce over 150,000 trees if planted the same as cabbage or tomatoes 
AND 1000 EACH OF THE FOLLOWING LEADING AMERICAN TREES—1000 COLO¬ 
RADO BLUE SPRUCE, 1000 NORWAY" SPRUCE, 1000 BLACK WALNUT, 1000 AMER¬ 
ICAN ELM, 1000 HARD MAPLE, 1000 LOMBARIDY POPULAR, HXX) TREE OF 
HEAVEN, 1000 NORWAY PINE, 1000 SCOTCH PINE, 1000 AMERICAN BEECH AND 
1000 CATALPA—12,000 trees, AND 250,000 TREE SEED—FOR $98.50 
% OF ABOVE LIST, $49.50- 
% OF ABOVE LIST, $25.00. 
You could not dig, pack and ship 12,(XX) trees and gather the cones, shake out and 
clean 250,000 seed for $98.50. 
Everyone must realize what tree planting will mean to the man who will take an active 
part in this work and either buy the trees himself or collect 10 or 25 cents from each club 
member or taxpayer and buy one of the outfits for anyone who will plant them 
THIS WORK MUST BE DONE BY’ SOMEONE. THE QUESTION IS WHICH IS 
THE CHEAPEST WAY—EACH MAN PUT IN A FEW CENTS NOW OR WAIT UNTIL 
TAXPAYERS MUST SUPPORT UNTOLD MILLIONS OF FARMERS UNABLE TO 
MAKE A LIVING ON THEIR FARMS ON ACCOUNT OF SOIL EROSION. 
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This diagram shows how to grow 195 trees, 
16 foot centers, instead of 170, by the 16x16 
foot method. 
The dots represent Christmas trees 12 inches 
north and 12 inches south of each walnut or 
other tree which can grow to 2 ft. in diameter. 
If only one tree is planted, they can grow to 
4 ft. in diameter which when sold will pay for 
the land, labor and leave a good profit- 
A walnut tree 40 years old should be 70 ft. 
high and 14 to 16 inches in diameter. A 20- 
foot log will produce 308 ft. of lumber or over 
4000 ft, of veneer. If you can’t plant an acre, 
plant 100 trees and start the work in your 
neighborhood and others will take it up and 
eventually instead of having thousands of 
acres of land producing nothing, you will add 
a million dollars to the wealth of your county. 
Better still, buy 1000 trees for the kiddies 
in your schools. 
What 27 cents Will Do 
American farmers with millions of bushels 
of surplus grain pay no attention to what 
it cost them and business men in farming 
set-tons fortunes. 
Argentine and other countries furnished 
over 6 million lbs. of our Thanksgiving 
Turkey; Dried Egg Albumin, 1,457,930 lbs. 
Dried Egg Y T olks, 1,604,710 lbs; Eggs, 2,916,- 
000 in one year. 
Farmers on 2 and 3 acres in other countries 
raise millions of dollars of commodities we 
import which our farmers should supply. 
I was raised on a farm and have travelled 
through farming sections of 35 countries and 
naturally notice what many pass by. The 
next BETZ TREE NEWS will be an eye- 
opener. But as I have mailed tons of printed 
matter year after year, from now on I CAN 
MAIL ONLY TO THOSE WHO HAVE PUR¬ 
CHASED TREES OR TREE SEED AND 
ARE INTERESTED. 
I am not complaining about expenses or 
the 6 years devoted to a work so many write 
me is foolish - yet will mean so much to 
pupils of today as you can learn bv reading 
Page 81 of “SUPPLEMENT NO- 1, SENATE 
DOCUMENT NO. 12, MAJOR PROBLEMS 
IN AMERICAN FORESTRY.” 
Every one has relatives and friends, many 
on farms who never heard of planting trees 
for preventing soil erosion who would gladly 
raise trees if they had the seed. 
In order to carry on this work, I must have 
support AND WILL SEND A BIG ASSORT¬ 
MENT OF PINE, SPRUCE AND ARBOR 
VTTAE EVERGREEN TREE SEED FOR 
PLANTING A 1200-FOOT, 5-ROW WIND¬ 
BREAK AND FOR PREVENTING SOIL 
EROSION AND FOR LUMBER AND 2500 
COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE SEED, POST¬ 
AGE PAID, FOIT27 CENTS IN STAMPS— 
ALSO FURNISH PRINTED MATTER 
TELLING HOW TO PLANT AND RAISE 
TREES FROM SEED AND OTHER VAL¬ 
UABLE INFORMATION. 
THE 2500 COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE 
ALONE WILL PRODUCE SEVERAL HUN¬ 
DRED TIMES 27 CENTS. 
Will you assist in starting this work? If 
so, send me the names of relatives and friends 
with 27 cents in stamps for each and I will 
forward them tree seed and write they were 
purchased by you. 
Should you not beleive in saving the black 
soil on our farmland, look at the map of 
Illinois. 
$2.50 BUYS 50,000 ASSORTED EVER¬ 
GREEN TREE SEED FOR PUPILS WITH 
WITH PRINTED MATTER AND OTHER 
VALUABLE INFORMATION. $5 BUYS 
100,000 AND 10,000 GENUINE COLORADO 
BLUE SPRUCE TREE SEED. 
