. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. <^.. 'f^'-ii y:> t Fig. 464. Hardy catalpa plantation of the South Amaiia Colony, South Amana, Iowa. Trees twenty-four years old. entirely, a good condition for planting may be secured by furrowing out in autumn where it is desired to plant, and in the spring planting on the edge of the furrow where the soil has fallen from the furrow-slice. In the case of hillsides of th
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. <^.. 'f^'-ii y:> t Fig. 464. Hardy catalpa plantation of the South Amaiia Colony, South Amana, Iowa. Trees twenty-four years old. entirely, a good condition for planting may be secured by furrowing out in autumn where it is desired to plant, and in the spring planting on the edge of the furrow where the soil has fallen from the furrow-slice. In the case of hillsides of this kind that are liable to wash, the furrows should ran across the slope and be made nearly level, or with a gentle slope so that the water will follow the furrows without gullying them. These furrows will hold the water and prevent the seedlings drying out. On wet land seedlings are sometimes planted on the surface, and the soil mounded up over the roots. This method is well adapted to white cedar on wet land. (4) Planting of cuttings.—There are few trees that can be grown in general practice from cut- tings, but it is the best way to start willows and some poplars, since seedlings of them are difiicult to secure. It may often happen that willows and poplars can be planted to good advantage on the cut-over land, where renewal of growth is expected from such shade-enduring trees as basswood, hard maple, hickory and chestnut. Under such condi- tions the willows will grow rapidly and form a predominant covering under which the other species will flourish. (5) Regeneration by coppice.—The commonest and simplest way of natural regeneration is the sprout method. This is based on the capacity possessed nearly exclusively by the hard-woods (of the coni- fers only by the California redwood) to renew themselves after cutting by shoots produced from the stump or roots. As a matter of fact the bulk of all our second growth hard-woods originated in this way. This method does not depend
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