The Badly-needed Trees

Trees should be planted when growth is sleeping in them, that is, in the spring, when the frost is out of the ground and before the season's growth begins, or in the fall after they have gotten their year's growth. This varies in different localities and your State Forester can advise you. In planting the trees you should give each young member of your forest crop a space of about six feet around it in all directions. It may not seem to need it when you put it into the ground, but soon it will have competition from its neighbors. About 1,200 trees to the acre is usual.

As soon as you receive your trees, be sure you unpack them and get them temporarily into the ground. This can best be done by digging a trench about six inches deep (if they are small trees) and "heeling" the bundles of small trees in by packing dirt about the roots and watering them if the weather is dry. The forest planting then can follow, usually being done by at least two persons. One, armed with a pail of water containing small trees and a hoe that will dig a hole about the size of a tomato can, goes ahead.

The hole is dug and the soil from it left handy to be packed around the young tree by the person who follows. These directions apply to transplants, and the smaller seedlings can be put in by cutting a wedge-shaped slit in the soil and pinching the soil about the tree. For forest planting coniferous or evergreen trees are largely used. They grow quickly, are relatively free from disease, and a large number can be grown per acre. So many people are fond of the great outdoors and love to see the hillsides kept green that the question of forestry needs no argumernt.

People plant trees not only for the investment, that the money return they may secure from them, but also for the beauty of their appearance, for their welcome shade, for the protection of the hillsides, to maintain a pure, finer and clean supply of water, to serve as nesting place for the bird, and game, and little wild amimals, and for the innumerable purposes by which trees and forests serve humanity.

The future prosperity of the country depends largely upon forests. It is therefore our patriotic duty to pass on to succeeding generations the heritage that our ancestors gave to us. We must not allow these valuable forests to be devastated by destructive methods or by wanton neglect. We must not permit immense areas of land fit only for forests to remain idle when it may be made to produce the trees so badly needed. We must plant!

By: davidbunch

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