Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1918 — URGED TO PLANT WALNUT TREES [ARTICLE]

URGED TO PLANT WALNUT TREES

WALNUT PREFERRED TO ANY OTHER KIND—WOOD AND CROP BOTH VALUABLE. Ordinarily every field on a farm is pastured more or less and it should contain one or more tree® in itbe proper location under which stock cored find protection from the hot sun. Anmals graze about two-fifths of their time and the remainder of fib® time is spent under a tree, along fences or near the gate. If there is a tree the stock will always be found where ft is located. For this reason the tree Should be located on the highest place of the field so that the slopes will get the benefit of the fertilizer. For. this reason trees should not be along fences, and, too, because stock is in more danger along wire fences than out in the field. " Walnut trees are to be preferred to all kinds of trees because they produce as little shade as any of oat valuable trees, and they are deeprooted, and*for this reason they dm be fanned to the base of th* tree and they will stand much Ufpiug The walnut is one of our most valuable timber trees and grows a not that has a commercial value. An objection to trees in a field are that they take up space that could ba farmed, but the walnut crop ufiß usually make up in value the space occupied. Another objection is that stock will herd under a tree during a storm and will be injured by lightning. This objection will not hold, because if a tree does not exist stock will huddle up somewhere along a fence which is usually of wire not properly grounded, and is a greater menace to stock than a tree. Walnut trees may be had by planting the nuts. The trees should bo pruned to a height of twelve feet or more so that the tree will produce a log length and shade the crops less. Valuable information upon the sub- . ect of tree planting and tree culture may be had by addressing the State Forester, State House, Tndianapofis.