Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — Successful Planting. [ARTICLE]

Successful Planting.

Agood experiment was made In timber planting by B. Hathaway of Michigan, which he reported in the Prairie Parmer. He set 150 trees, alternating with sugar maple and white pine, one rod apart, along the roadside. They were placed on the west or windward side of his cultivated farm. They have served as a windbreak for twenty yearn. • He has also set a line entirely of maples, which he procured from a natural growth some miles away. The maple being an easy tree to transplant, very few were lost. Prom these maples he has made syrup and sugar for ten years without harm to the trees. This reminds us of a plan partly carried out by another person. The public road passes through his farm with a slight v and uniform ascent. Planting a line of sugar maple trees ten feet apart along the border of the road he proposes to tap them for sap as soon as they are old enough and to connect them all by a small wooden or tin trough extending from tree to tree,.and thus collect the sap from the whole in these successive troughs at the bottom of the descent into a. suitable evaporating pan, where the pure sap can be evaporated into white and crystalline sugar.—Country Gentleman.