SHADE TREES ON FARMS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 46, 14 June 1903, Page 7

SHADE TREES ON FARMS.

.•!. T2:e' Comfort ■;' They Give to; Bin n cnti i "'uaast Alone Pays for. tie Tf-ouMe \ ..'. . v; -. : .'.:"' o« Planting Tliemi^ v ■ ... . w ■■'■'''; Most fariners 1 pay; little attention to :1 : shade trees, : I speak especially cf email :i'} : farmers. Some seem , to take even a savr {f\ age delight in cutting down .eyery, iteeo :'': ."within reach. If they; are io Jliuild a home in the wbods, the first movement is to clear away every kind of growth I 'until they have a bare spot of ground i- which they afterwards'plant with stunt T I' ed: cedars or cottonwoodis, as if anything ! could take the place of the grand oalis ! • and other forest trees so: ruthlessly ! chopped away.: I wonder^ if these vanj, dais, ever stop to. think wtiit'it takes tq 1 produce a great; spreading oak| or other j native -tree. I suspect not. - A strong j man ; with an ax may, destroy; manhour.. ' what it has taiien centuries to produce. It makes one sick at heart to witness the ruin ; that these wretches have wrought. Every farm house. should be surrounded by beautiful trees-and none .are more beautiful than native onks with v their •large,' spreading -branches:. Of course- the, sh/ade shp^jd^pt be toe dense, so as to produce , Ja'mpness. There should be sbmef, opiuing foiglimpses of sunlight now iandthen. Nor should the trees touch ; .£he house, or overhang it. There should also be enough light and sunshine to nouricL a rich carpet of grass.- ■ Every fiek"' should have at least one good shade tree, and pasture fields should have several so that the stock may find sheltrf I without molesting one another. Eh?. Jc is grateful to both man and beast. Whr.t is more refreshing to toilers in the harvest field than a short breathing spell in the shade of some thickly branched tree? If the farmer is bent upon economy, let trimjplant frrit trees for shade. A Icirge apple' tree with a heavy toe irr.l'rs a very fine shade. Cattle will keep fho b'-nding tv/irrs trimmed off evenly and help to thicken up the canopy that protects them. A good, large apple tree mares a very satisfactory shade without ?poil : ng so much ground as a large oak. This point may be considered, if one insists on economy.'' The 'fruit of the apple tree may also be marked up ic i'z favor. There is "no reason why i1 I should not be a ccr^ieerable item. The pleasure of getting fruit fresh from thf tree will also counf fcr muchJtothetirec" laborer. The culture of a family is exhibited in the shi de trees and other external characteri tic." nf their home ar much as in their c peech and the clothe: they wear. Thero are what make th-' old country, horns so impressive. Nv matter how eleg-nt in itself, no he-.-can ever seem li' e a true home wi " standing in a ba' : field exposed to iiu broiling sun and :elting storms. — T. C. Karns, in Epitom^t.