. Agriculture and the farming business . Usiiis the wood lot for social center work, scliool picuies andclub festivals, near Dows, Iowa. the timber. Some prefer to plant the rapid-growing softwood trees, while others are willing to wait longer for theharder woods to grow. An excellent plan is to plant anumber of varieties. Not only will this allow a mixture ofthe slow and the fast growing trees, but provide a varietyof timber suitable for different purposes of utility and com-fort for the farm. From the eastern to the middle western states the fa- 664 AGRICULTURE AND vorite trees seem to be th
. Agriculture and the farming business . Usiiis the wood lot for social center work, scliool picuies andclub festivals, near Dows, Iowa. the timber. Some prefer to plant the rapid-growing softwood trees, while others are willing to wait longer for theharder woods to grow. An excellent plan is to plant anumber of varieties. Not only will this allow a mixture ofthe slow and the fast growing trees, but provide a varietyof timber suitable for different purposes of utility and com-fort for the farm. From the eastern to the middle western states the fa- 664 AGRICULTURE AND vorite trees seem to be the different varieties of maple,elm, oak, locust, ash, fir, basswood, hickory, walnut, box-elder, Cottonwood, yellow poplar, catalpa, chestnut, syca-more, etc. In the drier regions such as western Kansas and Ne-braska, Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado, it is difficult to startsuccessfully some of these varieties. Among the bestdrought resisting trees are the black locust, green ash, Osageorange and Russian mulberry. In the southern and far. Good homes for yoiu bird friends. western states practically all varieties suitable to the Northand East can be grown and many others besides. Starting the wood lot.—The w^ood lot may be started,in the case of most trees, either by planting the seed, orby setting out young trees. A common method of startinga grove of hardy catalpa, for example, is to prepare theseed bed as if for corn. Catalpa seed is then planted, andthe field cultivated for several years. The young trees aresometimes cut back to the ground after two years of growth THE FAR^IING BUSINESS 665 for the purpose of producing straighter and more sturdytrees. The growth of the tree is not retarded by thisprocess. A seed bed for trees can easily be started, and the treestransplanted to the desired positions when the seedlings arefrom one to three years old. A small seed bed will supplytrees for a large wood lot.
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