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The  RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
March  3,  1923 
cMk  <^w/*ce”Raspbemi 
Stamford.  Conn. 
i0SO  LUTELY  NO  OTHER  RASPBERRIES 
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OR  FRUITS 
Giant  Everbcaiin? 
Red  Raspberry 
SUPERIOR  in  every  way  to 
any  raspberry  under  culti¬ 
vation;  absolutely  hardy 
everywhere;  free  from  disease; 
most  prolific,  producing  from 
June  until  heavy  frost  continu¬ 
ously,  strong  branches  loaded 
with  immense  clusters  of 
luscious,  meaty,  large  berries, 
of  the  finest  aroma  and  con¬ 
taining  but  few  seeds. 
Awarded  medals  and  certificates 
by  leading  Agricultural  and  Horti¬ 
cultural  Societies,  including  the 
Massachusetts  Horticultural  Society, 
Horticultural  Society  of  New  York, 
The  American  Institute  of  New 
York,  etc.,  etc. 
Safe  delivery  guaranteed  in  proper  time 
tor  planting  it  ordered  now 
Address  Department  H-18 
The  plants  we  send  out 
average  three  to  four  feet 
in  height.  The  wood  is  at 
least  a  half  inch  thick,  and 
on  the  clump  of  roots, 
several  suckers  may  be 
found.  They  will  bear  fruit 
the  first  season  planted, 
and  they  multiply  tapidly. 
It  is  grown  in 
the  gardens  of 
J.  P.  Morgan 
Glen  Cove,  N.  V. 
Strong  Plants 
$3  for  six.  $5  per  dozen. 
$40  per  hundred. 
P.  S.  Du  Pont 
Wilmington, 
Delaware 
Chas.  M.  Schwab 
Loretto,  Pa. 
John  D. 
Rockefeller, 
Pocantico  Hills, 
N.  Y. 
A 
bundle 
of 
twenty 
five 
plants 
Wm  K. 
Vanderbilt, 
Hyde  Park,  N.  Y. 
Henry  Ford, 
Dearborn, 
Michigan 
and  thousands 
of  others  who 
demand  the 
world's  best. 
The  Woodlot 
White  Spruce  for  Pulpwood 
Pari  I 
Will  you  give  me  information  in  re¬ 
gard  to  planting  white  and  yellow  spruce 
and  white  poplar  trees  for  pulpwood?  I 
would  like  to  set  out  about  100  acres  as 
an  investment.  There  is  a  lot  of  cheap 
land  north  of  here  that  is  no  good  for 
anything  else.  How  long  will  it  take  to 
grow  trees  big  enough  for  pulpwood,  and 
how  much  should  it  yield  to  the  acre? 
Whitesboro,  N.  Y.  J.  L.  R. 
White  spruce  is  one  of  the  very  desir¬ 
able  sources  of  pulpwood  from  which  pa¬ 
per  is  manufactured.  Red  spxuce,  which 
is  probably  the  same  as  the  yellow  spruce 
mentioned  in  the  letter,  is  equally  good. 
The  spruce  has  a  long  fiber  and  is  prac- 
spruce  can  be  used  with  equal  assurance 
as  white  spruce. 
In  the  northern  part  of  New  York 
State,  especially  on  the  more  rigorous 
soil,  it  would  probably  be  more  satisfac¬ 
tory  to  use  white  spruce.  On  well-drained 
but  moist  loam  Norway  spruce  can  be 
used  with  great  satisfaction.  The  trees 
can  be  purchased  from  the  Conservation 
Commission  at  $4  per  thousand  for^  three- 
year-old  transplants.  Such  trees  are  well- 
rooted  stock,  from  5  to  8  in.  high.  The 
order  should  be  sent  to  the  Conservation 
Commission  at  Albany.  The  trees  are 
distributed  during  April  and  the  early 
part  of  May,  or  during  the  early  Fall. 
Taken  as  a  whole,  early  Spring  planting 
is  usually  by  far  the  most  satisfactory. 
The  trees  come  packed  in  hampers  or 
Planting  four-year-old  transplants  of  Norway  spruce  upon  an  abandoned  farm  in 
Otsego  County,  New  York.  The  soil  is  a  heavy  clay  loam,  and  the  field  had_been 
used  as  a  meadow  for  several  years  past.  The  land  was  valued  at  less  than  $5  per 
acre.  The  planting,  including  trees,  transportation,  labor,  etc.,  was  about  $15  per 
acre.  Over  95  per  cent  of  these  trees  were  growing  at  the  end  of  two  years. 
tically  free  of  all  resin,  so  that  it  has  be¬ 
come  in  many  ways  the  standard  source 
of  paper  pulp.  Poplar  is  a  fair  pulp¬ 
wood,  and  is  being  used  to  an  increasing 
amount.  Popple  (as  it  is  often  called) 
does  not  bring  as  good  a  price  as  spruce, 
but  under  management  it  can  be  made 
to  grow  much  more  rapidly.  Satisfactory 
methods  of  artificially  producing  popple 
have  not  proved  highly  satisfactory.  As 
a  result  practically  all  of  the  popple 
which  is  marketed  or  wTill  be  marketed 
for  some  time  to  come  wTill  be  the  result 
of  natural  stands,  or  stands  whose  estab- 
crates.  It  is  usually  very  surprising  to  a 
man  not  in  the  habit  of  receiving  such 
material  to  see  what  a  small  package  a 
matter  of  10,000  trees  will  make.  They 
are  sent  by  express  collect  from  the  near¬ 
est  growing  point.  In  the  case  of  North¬ 
eastern  New  York  this  would  be  Saratoga 
Springs. 
Upon  receiving  a  crate  of  trees  they 
should  be  immediately  opened,  the  roots 
watered,  and  the  bundles  of  trees  heeled 
in  at  some  point  convenient  to  the  pro¬ 
posed  planting  site.  The  planting  should 
be  done  as  quickly  as  possible.  For  ordi- 
A  large  crew  of  woodsmen  planting  small  forest  trees  on  an  abandoned  field  in  the 
Tug  Hill  section  of  the  Adirondacks  in  Oswego  County.  These  trees  were  planted 
in  the  early  Spring.  The  holes  were  dug  with  a  mattock,  and  the  little  trees  set  out 
at  intervals  of  6  ft.  over  the  entire  area.  If  spaced  exactly  0  ft.  apart  it  will 
require  1,210  trees  to  cover  an  acre. 
lishment  has  only  been  slightly  guided  by 
the  hand  of  man.  Spruce,  on  the  other 
hand,  can  be  grown  and  transplanted  by 
man  with  a  high  degree  of  satisfaction. 
The  State  of  New  York  has  a  very  large 
nursery  at  Saratoga  Springs  and  other 
small  ones  in  Lowville  and  Saranac.  At 
these  places  several  varieties  of  Northern 
forest  trees  are  grown  from  seed.  Among 
these  are  white  spruce  and  Norway 
spruce.  The  white  spruce  is  native  to 
Northeastern  United  States,  especially 
the  Adirondack  section  of  New  York, 
while  Norway  spruce  is  a  native  of 
Northern  Europe.  Norway  spruce  grows 
admirably  in  America  up  to  the  age  of 
50  to  75  years;  thereafter  it  begins  to 
fail  rapidly,  so  that  _  old  stands  are 
scarcely  known  in  this  country.  For 
production  of  pulpwood,  however,  _  50 
years  is  the  outside  limit,  and  occasion¬ 
ally  stands  are  produced  inside  of  30 
years.  Under  such  conditions  Norway 
nary  forest  purposes  the  trees  can  best 
be  set  at  intervals  of  6  ft.  over  the  entire 
area.  Planted  in  rows  6  ft.  apart,  it  will 
take  1,210  to  cover  an  acre  exactly.  The 
cost,  including  trees,  express,  local  trans¬ 
portation  and  labor,  should  average 
around  $12  or  $15  per  acre.  Occasionally 
plantings  are  made  somewhat  cheaper, 
and  sometimes  on  very  hard,  rocky  land, 
or  when  the  labor  is  not  especially  ef¬ 
ficient.  the  cost  will  exceed  this  figure. 
There  is  no  particular  difficulty  in  plant¬ 
ing  the  trees;  the  same  care  that  one 
would  use  in  setting  out  tomato  or  even 
cabbage  plants  will  result  in  a  high  de¬ 
gree  of'  success  when  setting  out  forest 
trees.  Bulletins  giving  the  details  of  for¬ 
est  planting  can  be  secured  from  the  Con¬ 
servation  Commission  at  Albany,  from 
the  New  York  State  College  of  Agricul¬ 
ture  at  Ithaca,  as  well  as  from  various 
other  institutions  or  agencies  whose  busi¬ 
ness  is  to  encourage  forestry.  G.  h.  C. 
