wash the trees out. If the land is not prepared the 
same general methods of planting should be fol- 
lowed 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 grown without 
any care whatsoever. We believe, however, that 
proper and judicious pruning for shape after the 
trees are 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 de- 
bated, 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 fewer years and thus give a 
greater profit, although the market price per tree 
is less. 
Selling the Jrees 
The method of selling depends entirely upon 
local conditions, and the circumstances of the man 
who grows the trees. The man who is ideally situ- 
ated to grow Christmas trees is the farmer who has 
a few acres of land which can be devoted to this 
purpose. He can cut the trees himself around the 
first of December, take them to the city with his 
own truck and sell them from house to house at 
from 75¢ to $2.50 each. The business man, how- 
ever, who grows Christmas trees, can usually sell 
his trees to a store or Christmas tree broker in the » 
city at wholesale prices which IS from 25¢ to 
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