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TREE PLANTING.

Conservation of forests and planting trees for the purpose of securing a continuous supply of timber are matters domnnding and receiving attention in new as well as in old countries. At the closo of the past session of tho United States Congress a bill was passed Mil beenmo law, having for its object the encouragement of true planting. This measure is regarded as tho most important to settlers on tho public lands of any one that has been passed since tho Homestead Act became law. It is called "An Act to encourage tho Growth of Timber on Western Prairies," and provides " that any person who shall plant, protect, and keep in a hnilth^ growing condition for five 3 ears, forty acres of timber, the trees thereon not being more tliiin eight feet apart each way, on any qunrter-3cction of any of the public Hnds of the United Stales, shall be entitled to a patent for tho wholo of said quarter section at tho expiration of said five years, on making proof of such fact by not loss than two crodible witnesses ; provided tint only 0110 quarter of any section shall be granted." There is no residents clause. All that is necessary is for nny man or wormn to obtnin a grant of land undor the Planting Act, mnke an nflida\ it that foi t$ acres out of the quarter sec) ion shall be devoted to the cultivation of timber, pay ten dollars and tale posaassiou. At the end of iivo years, and wil hout further payment, the quarter section becomes the properly o( the planter. From this it will be seen that four acres of land are given for the planting of one acre, or m other words, 160 acMH for planting 19 acres with trees, the trees planted becoming the property of the planter, a* well as the land on which they grow. Should tho conditions not be fulfilled, the land taken up under the Act revert to the St.ite again. When the Act has been complied with, nil that is necessary to secure the patent or title deeds of the laid is that tw.> crediblo witnessos shall testify to the fact. •Such is the nature of the Act by means of which the American liorcminent aims at studding the vast treeless prairies with trees and homesteads, and, thus secure a supply of timber for the settlors own use ; and if liberal treatment will effect tho object aimed at, planting and settlement will take place. Some attempt was made to introduce a planting clause into the present Land Act of this colony, but failed. Clearing the land of timber is looked upon as an net of " improvement," where the land is timbered, but no inducement is held out to encourngc the planting of trees. Porhnps some of our members may consider the subject of tuftleicnt importance to tnke the matter up again should any amending land bill come before the House. — Melbourne Leader.

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Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 203, 28 August 1873, Page 3

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TREE PLANTING. Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 203, 28 August 1873, Page 3

TREE PLANTING. Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 203, 28 August 1873, Page 3

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