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better when trees are planted closer
together, within rows, not between
rows. The main reason for this is that
the extra trees provide income from a
thinning partway through the rotation
and give more of a choice in the trees
to keep for the final crop. Initially, the
trees do not compete with each other
and the farmer won't be able to till in
the row with the trees anyway. The
closer spacing would bump the 25
trees per acre up to 50 or even 100.
The difference in profitability is hard-
ly enough to justify Mr. Creighton's
statement that the wide spacing is
"seriously misleading and could cause
major financial losses to a landowner
who uses this information." Mr.
Creighton is again using recommen-
dations for a forest plantation to com-
ment on an agricultural situation.
If Mr. Creighton is interested, we
could suggest a few research publica-
tions that do recommend some of the
wide spacings that Andy Dixon was
talking about. Perhaps Mr. Creighton
should re -read the article with a more
open mind, or better yet, go visit Andy
Dixon's place himself.0
Peter Williams
Research Associate
Ontario Agricultural College
Department of Environmental Biology
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