The tree is easy to transplant. I 
have planted them out in pastures, 
with very few losses. Don’t make the 
mistake of letting this statement cause 
you to abuse a good tree. A mulch 
will be helpful. 
The Tennessee Experiment Station 
reports that blue grass grew better in 
pastures with walnut trees. Partial 
shade helps grass in hot weather. A 
great virtue of Honey Locust for the 
pasture is the thin, open foliage, which 
lets a great deal of light through, so 
that grass can grow beneath the tree. 
In addition to being easy to transplant, 
the trees are rapid growers. The wood 
is beautiful, durable and strong. 
The Agricultural Experiment Station 
at Auburn, Alabama, planted some 
Honey Locust of the Milwood variety 
and a nine-year-old tree produced 250 
pounds of beans. These were ground 
and fed to dairy cows through a long 
feeding experiment and the yield of 
an acre was found to have feeding 
value equal to 105 bushels of oats. The 
same ground produced at the same 
time 2.5 tons of lespedeza sericea hay 
without cultivation. This is little short 
of marvelous and suggests what we 
may do if we should develop our native 
crop trees to their full possibilities. 
This matter is treated at length in 
a book about tree crops, by J. Russell 
Smith. 
Some trees of this species are very 
thorny, but the varieties I offer are 
almost thornless, and the tree is a very 
beautiful yard tree. 
Try some, especially if you happen 
to have the great gift of Curiosity or 
wish to experiment. 
We need to find two or three honey 
locust trees in the North that are 
worthy of propagation. I appeal to 
the readers of this booklet to keep 
their eyes open for such trees and send 
me samples of the pods, beans and all. 
The tree grows wild in New England, 
Michigan, Wisconsin, southern Minne- 
sota, and it is very important that we 
get good, productive strains from the 
northern range. 
The beans should be imbedded in a 
sugary pulp, and the pods should be a 
foot long at least. If they do not taste 
good to you, don’t send them. Some 
are bitter. 
The high sugar content suggests a 
hill-grown sugar crop in the not dis- 
tant future if we use our heads. 
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No uncolored 
picture can show the full beauty of the 
peculiar deep green Pawpaw foliage. 
Young Pawpaw tree. 
When to Plant Our Trees 
If you plant in the spring plant as 
early as you can. Don’t put it off. Give 
the tree a chance to get settled into 
the earth and start its roots to drawing 
nutriment therefrom. From New York 
and Pittsburgh southward you can 
plant in November. 
Planting the Tree 
Don’t buy a good tree and then neg- 
lect it. I want my trees to be well 
treated. 
Nut trees have great root systems. 
It is certainly true that young Hick- 
ories and Pecans have more root than 
top. If you had all the roots of such 
a tree you would need a hole almost 
as deep aS a well and as wide as a 
small house foundation in which to 
plant it. Transplanting such trees is 
an act of violence at best. The tops 
should be reduced to match the reduc- 
tion of roots. ‘Therefore, I trim all 
trees severely unless buyer especially 
