Mixed planting that effectually cools the house and yard. Four io-foot 
Silver Maples, and five 3-foot Norway Spruces. Total only $3. Norway 
Maples, Blue Spruce, Hemlock, White Pine, etc., would be better, and a 
$5 Privet hedge should be added. $15 is little enough to appropriate 
for planting at such a home. 
Why It Pays to Plant Shade 
Trees and Evergreens 
THE CASH VALUE OF SHADE TREES 
Three thousand two hundred and seventy dollars 
for a row of shade trees a mile long! This is the 
cash value set by Government Forest Service 
men on despised Cottonwood trees forty years old, 
for their lumber-value only. The men go on to 
prove that the protection given crops and build¬ 
ings by this mile-long row of trees during the forty 
years is worth thirty-five thousand five hundred and 
eighty-five dollars. 
The report was made after these same experts had 
examined a hundred and thirteen such plantings. 
Had the row been of Norway Maples, American 
Elms, Ash or Beeches, or some other high-grade 
shade trees, its value would have been double this 
amount. This is not theory, or a dream of some 
college professor; but careful figuring of actual 
benefit that was accomplished. Equally valuable 
results can be secured from the same kind of 
planting in almost any neighborhood. 
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