Michigan State Farmers' Institutes Volume 12 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...and requirements, so it will be impossible to give definite and conclusive directions that would satisfy all conditions. However, when once the principles are understood and undertaken the road to success and profit is easy. The Forestry Department of the Agricultural College is in constant communication with owners of farm woodlots and woodland generally and considers it a part of its duty to give information for the improvement of such land. Q. Would you advise planting trees in rows for windbreaks? A. In some cases. Q. Where can seeds of forest trees be procured? A. Of Otto Katzenstein, Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. E. M. Moore: I do not think it pays farmers to propagate forest trees from seed as they can purchase seedlings one or two years old for a dollar or two per thousand. Q. Will chestnuts do well in this part of the State? A. I can cite instances where they have been profitable. Q. At what age do chestnuts begin to bear? A. When twenty years old they will produce four to ten bushels per tree. THE FORESTRY PROBLEM OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN. PROF. FILIBERT ROTH, ANN ARBOR. If we think of the forestry problem of Southern Michigan as being the right use and care of the farmer's woodlot, we can say that the forestry problem of Northern Michigan is the right use and care of our remaining forests, and our large areas of wild and denuded lands is has been pointed out, the woodlot is an affair of individual effort, of good will and good sense, in which the action of the State is of secondary importance. The care of our forests and still more of our large areas of wild and denunded lands is also one of individual effort and good will, but it is far more one of right law and good government. Under present laws we cannot have forestry in Northern...