Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1917 — Special Conditions. [ARTICLE]

Special Conditions.

In planting out street and highway trees, the fundamental principle governing the work should be as in all the broad field of agriculture, the creation of conditions suitable to the particular plants to be used. If proper conditions do not exist, they must be made. If rainfall is Insufficient, Irrigation sufficient to overcome the natural deficiency of water supply must be practiced. If rainfall Is excessive, drainage must be had by blasting to free soil or digging deep holes and mixing sand, wood ashes, lime or decaying vegetable matter with the soil before replacing It In the holes. Physical condition of soils is of far greater moment than the chemical properties, therefore deep holes, dag or blasted, together with deep preparatory cultivation is essential to success.