Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1911 — ROADS AND ROAD MAKING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ROADS AND ROAD MAKING

: to these. dal income from these trees has tr T *iTr d cent years it nas often been nearly >40,000 a year. Of this. 50 per cent, was left after payment of the ■** ITI Al 711 PAATICA Of these fruit trees, there are 175.794, which would cover 99.000 acres, if they had been set SO feet -Opart. Most of the stock planted was from the provincial nursery at nurseries, or from those owned by local districts; but as these could not supply enough trees, some were bought from private growers. In ,1895 the province bodfeht an estate of 408 acres on which to grow nursery stock for thb highways. .. j,-.-; XXX i ; The highway fruit growing has been in operation about a hundred - years,- and some of the trees became too old to be profitable, therefore young ones were put in their places W during the last decade, a fact which. United States Consul Jay White reports, made the income from highway fruit less than it would have been. A considerable part of these .. highways has been constructed since 1870, and on them the fruit trees -fcfd"“W"yef x Wlly prodSctive aTd profitable. M ..s ''/J Beside the money profit of 50! per cent, per annum they give, and the charm which these' trees lend to the landscape, they are to be mad* £ to benefit the" people further by giving object lessons In ways for tr'eatX ing such trees, as well as evidence $s to the merits of the several varieties and conditions under which they may be made to yield the best results . Moreover, such trees beside tho roads give grateful shade, keep the roadbeds comparatively" free from dust, check the washing of soil into the ditches by rain and snow, omX ploy many persons to or. them, and z arouse in others interest in the growing of fruit, and thus lead to an increase in this profitable <mcupatiou :