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DESIGNATED DEPOSITARY OF THE UNITED STATES.
National Bank of the Republic
OF CHICAGO.
CAJPITAJD , OJVJB MILLION DOLLARS.
JOHN A. LYNCH , President. W. T. FENTON , Vice President and Cashier.
j J. H. CAMERON and H. R. KENT , Asst. Cashiers. R. M. McKINNEY , 2d Asst. Cashier.
FORESTRY AS AN INVESTMENT.
EDITOR CONSERVATIVE :
In THE CONSERVATIVE of July 20 , Mr.
O. T. Robinson of Pawnee City , Ne
braska writes of his forty-acre post
farm.
Had Mr. Robinson started out to grow
sawing timber , he would now be receiv
ing an income far beyond what his post
farm brings him.
Taking his own estimates , supposing
all to have been catalpas , his forty acres
would by this time have at 7x7 feet , 26-
G64 first class post trees with at least
ten posts each , worth much more than
his four-inch posts ; say $5,382.80 , while
the 8,888 permanent trees left 14x14 feet
apart , would at this time be worth ten
times as much as his fence posts are
now valued at.
Had he planned for cross-ties , they
would now be worth $26,664 in addition
to the sale of posts as above.
It is utterly impossible for 2,700 catalpa -
talpa trees to thrive on an acre of land
only 16 sq. ft. per tree. They will live ,
but cannot increase in size until nature ,
after years of struggle , kills out the
weaker , giving room for the stronger to
finally get a start.
If friend Robinson or the hundreds of
your noble men who have been planting
trees 4x4 feet through a mistaken idea
that they could develop at that distance ,
would consider the root system of a
tree , how much water it requires to
form the wood growth , how much food
is demanded , they would see that 16 sq.
ft , or even 36 sq. ft. of 6x6 feet will not
support a tree after it is eight years old.
I dug a tree on Governor Furnas' place ,
a four-year old catalpa. The length
of root which ranged from 1 to 4 inches
in diameter was 104) feet. At four
years old it occupied entirely 100 square
feet of ground , filling every portion of
that space with fibrous roots. But it
had grown to a height of 24 feet , with a
diameter of five inches. At four years
old it was much larger than farmer
Robinson's trees at fifteen years' growth ,
which were thickly planted.
This is the most important feature of
forest planting. The great Farlington ,
Kansas , plantation , 1,200 acres of catal
pas , is another and most complete
failure. 10,000 fence posts have been
taken from it worth probably $1,000.00 ,
while if it had been properly thinned
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ten or twelve years ago it would now be
supplying cross-ties by the hundred
thousand.
The farmers who would try to keep
ten hogs having only food for one ,
would not get rioh by the operation.
From 7 to 8 feet each way for the first
ten years , and 14 to 16 feet afterwards ,
is as close as trees should be grown if
success is desired.
Yours truly ,
JOHN P. BROWN.
Connersville , Ind.
MB. CAFFKRY'S DECLINATION.
In declining to stand as an indepen
dent candidate for the Presidency , Sena
tor Oaffery in effect lends the weight of
his influence to McKinley. Like J.
Sterling Morton and many other gold-
standard anti-imperialists , he regards
Bryanisui as so much the greater of the
two evils as to 'make the re-election of
Mr. McKinley decidedly to be preferred.
This was the substance of an authorized i
interview with Mr. Oaffery in these dis
patches some months ago , of which his
present declination is but a logical
sequence. As a Southern man , with
strong democratic leanings , this prefer
ence is significant , and will be of con
siderable service in influencing doubtful
voters. N. Y. Evening Post.
H. W. Johns Manufacturing Com
pany , 100 Williams Street , New York
Oity , recently secured a contract from
the Pittsburg Plate Glass Co. , Ford
Oity , Pa. , for furnishing and applying
their Asbestos Fire Felt Covering for
their factory No. 8 , in which plant they
are now installing twelve new boilers
and the necessary steam pipes. The
contract in question will amount to
over $2,000.
