The Cultivation of the Willow
. The willow is now being largely grown in America for medicinal purposes. The willow switches, at the end -of two.- years,- are from 4ft, to 7ft. long, and are cut and gathered into bunches like. sheaves of wheat. . In the shipping'building they are steeped in water and the bark at the larger end loosened for a couple of inches by machinery. One by one the Switches are placed in the mechaiiical stripped/ and with a pair qf plyers are puller through with a sudden jerk. They are iheri wiped off with a woollen; cloth, bundled and laid away to dry. AH the leaves and bark are dried and •baled, when the^ command a price of 25 .cents |pef lb. There are at 400,000 willows growing on a farm at Georgia, and 80,000 additional slips have recently been set out. The entire levee is to be eventually covered with them, when sixty acres will be devoted to this single crop. The. average yield is a ton to the acre. pftien: dried .'. the willows command 200dol. per ton and find a ready market.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 9, 3 July 1886, Page 3
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