Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1902 — GROWING OF TREES- [ARTICLE]

GROWING OF TREES-

& System Which Has Proved of Much Benefit. On our up-to-date farm we set out *arly to do what little we could toward keeping the wooded part of the place Intact. We began by Betting out a few trees every spring. The first were set tome twelve years ago, along the roadaide, and to-day they are fine tree* large enough to cast quite a shadow. Some of those near the house look beautiful now. They are all sugar maples. They grow a little slower than any other, perhaps, but they are the best tree for shade that we have. Then, too, when we have been clearing up brush lots in the pasture we have left every hard maple and ash and chestnut It has been understood that every such tree Is sacred. No de* stroylng ax was to be touched to it, unless to trim it up and make it more beautiful. The result la we have a nice row of maples along the highway and about the house. They are a source of pleasure to us all. Not only that, they do a little toward keeping the climate of our country healthful and lessen the danger from floods. Every farmer ought to do something In this direction. If he cuts down a tree he ought to set out another one. Work he never will get any benefit from, do you say? How much such work we must do first and last! A large part of the farmer's work Is for the future. He never knows who will reap where he sows. To-morrow some new man may come to take up the work where he laid it down. All right Benefactors know they never can eat the fruit of all their labor. The farmers are the world’s greatest benefactors. They ougbt not to stay their hands from planting trees that others may sit under their shadow.—Up-to-Date Farming.