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[William Genest <genest@pivot.net>]

Also fabulous fire wood  - super hot burning
Also, thorns can be used to advantage to keep predators out and  
livestock in ...

On Sep 15, 2005, at 6:56 PM, dwoodard@becon.org wrote:

> Black locust of the right size makes really good long lasting fence  
> posts.
>
> The flowers are good for nectar and therefore honey. I understand that
> a selection (variety "semperflorens") from Europe, said to bloom  
> for six
> weeks, is preferred for honey.
>
> I have read of a study in Wisconsin which showed much better growth of
> pine trees planted with black locust due to the nitrogen fixed.
>
> I have also read that Russian work showed better growth of poplars  
> planted
> with caragana. I might prefer caragana to black locust. I  
> understand that
> poultry can eat caragana seeds; black locust seeds are toxic but I  
> don't
> know if some creatures can eat them - probably, but I don't know what.
>
> Black locust has fairly short thorns. It's honey locust that has  
> the big
> (several inches) narrow spikey ones, and big long seed pods
>
> Doug Woodard
> St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Carrie Shepard wrote:
>
>
> > What are the good uses for black locust trees?
> >
> > We have had a lot of them pop up on the property behind us and I was
> > wondering if that was a good or a bad thing.  There the ones with  
> > those
> > nasty thorns, right?
> >
> > Carrie
> > In OK
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