Re: Flip over question

Posted by Hugh MacKay on February 18, 2005 at 18:34:06 from (64.228.11.30):

In Reply to: Re: Flip over question posted by Duke Denning on February 18, 2005 at 17:30:44:

Duke: The Elms that did so well in out area were either on cultivated farmland or around the edges. Those trees did exceptionally well off farm fertility. When I was a boy our farm had over 200 Elms on roughly 600 acres of land. 400 acres of that land was forested, mostly softwoods. The Elm was the stately tree in that community. School section was actually called Elmsvale. Our farm was called Elmview Farm. My wife and I actually had lumber sawn and curred from those Elms, and all the finish wood in her new kitchen 35 years ago was Elm including all kitchen cubbords. We have quite a affection for those Elms.

It was truly the trees that got used for livestock shade that became massive. Besides the 80' branch spread many of them were over 100' tall. Of course you know what cows would do under trees. The Elms sure loved the diet. Most of our Elms that grew in forest didn't do near that well. In fact as I think about it, the Elm didn't not really compete well in size against other trees in our area. They could however suck the fertility away from alfalfa, corn, timothy, potatoes, etc. I do know the smaller Elms from forest stands made better lumber. They had finer growth rings, and of course slower growth.

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