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NTJMBER OF TREES TO THE ACRE: In round figures, 3 ft. by 
3 ft. spacing requires 4800 trees per acre. In the plan 
of cutting already described you would have to sell about 
2400 3 to 4 ft. trees, 1200 4 to 5 ft. trees, an^ 1000 
7 feet and larger. The largest ones of course bring the 
most money but it costs very little to have the others 
growing on the same piece of lan^^. 
COST AND r/iETHOD OP^ PLANTING: On areas that have been culti¬ 
vated furrows arc sometimes plowed and the trees planted in 
these furrows. The furrows v/ill then collect water for the 
trees when it rains. If the field is not level do not use 
furrows as the water will run in them and wash the trees 
out 4 If the lan'^ is not prepared the same general methods 
of planting should be followo'^ as for planting forest 
trees. The average man Will plant between 500 and 1000 
trees a day. The cost of planting, therefore, is determined 
by the daily wage scale. 
CARE: Christmas trees can be and are grov/n without any 
care whatsoever. We believe, however, that proper and 
judicious pruning for shape after the trees arc two feet 
tall will greatly increase the value of the crop at very 
little cost to the owner. The question of fertilization 
has been greatly debated, some claiming that fast growth 
produced by fertilizer causes the whorls of branches to 
be so far apart that the trees do not bring top prices. 
Others claim that the fertilizer enables them to market 
their trees in fev/cr years anf^ thus give a greater profit, 
although the market price per tree is loss. 
SELLING THE TREPJS; The method of selling 'depends entirely 
upon local conditions, and the circumstancos of the man 
v/ho grows the trees. The man who is ideally situated to 
grov; Christmas trees is the farmer who has a few acres of 
land which can bo r’evoted to this purpose. Ho can cut 
the trees himself around the first of ■ncccmbcr, take them 
to the city with his own truck anr^ sell them from house to 
house at from 75^ to $2.50 each. The business man, however, 
who grows Christmas trees, will usually have to sell his 
trees to a store or Christmas tre.e broker in the city at ■ 
wholesale prices which range from 25 ^ to 75{^, 
