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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



A Replanted Hillside. 



THIS IS ON THE VILAS TRACT OF THE BROOKLYN COOPERAGE COMPANY IN THE ADIRONDACKS. 



1911—42,000 white pine, 3-year old 

 transplants from the New York 

 State Nursery. 

 1912—100,000 white pine, 3-year old 

 transplants from the New York 

 State Nursery. 

 1913—59,700 white pine, 2-year old 

 transplants from the Brooklyn 

 Cooperage Company Seed Beds. 

 1914 — 60,500 white pine, 3-year old 

 transplants from the Brooklyn 

 Cooperage Company Seed Beds. 

 These plantations, inspected by visi- 

 tors in August showed on the average 

 a vigorous growth. Owing to the 

 burned over character of the replanted 

 land, replanting was necessarily accom- 

 plished under difficulties. The work, 

 however, must have been thoroughly 

 done, as shown by the condition and 

 progress of the young trees. The trees 

 were planted at the rate of from 1,000 

 to 1,200 per acre. They stand on cut 

 over or burned lands, with slight forest 

 cover. Mr. Parker states that the trees 

 of 1910 were poor in quality, but not- 

 withstanding this handicap, the soil 

 and environment in general about dis- 

 coimted it, and the young trees, 

 especially the red pine, have done very 

 well. Some of the most favored speci- 

 mens measured 7 feet, and the average 



is 6 feet. Owing to abundant rains, the 

 growth this year was remarkably 

 rapid. Apparently, the loss of trees in 

 the 1910 planting was not much more 

 than 5 per cent. The inspection 

 showed that some red spruce planted 

 in 1910 have done exceedingly well. 



Owners of private forest lands in need 

 of reforestation will be interested in 

 President Parker's table of the cost of 

 replanting. As already stated, the 

 replanting was done on burned over 

 lands requiring more or less clearing in 

 order to set the trees, conditions mak- 

 ing the cost about the maximiun, yet 

 the Brooklyn Cooperage Company is 

 convinced that it has made an excellent 

 investment in this work. 



1910, $18 per acre; 1911, $25 per acre; 

 1912, $16.50 per acre; 1913, $17.25 per 

 acre; 1914, $13.15 per acre. Like every 

 other industry, reforestation has to be 

 learned. Moreover, a farmer raising 

 cabbage or celery, does not buy his 

 plants, if he has employees on the place 

 who can put in their time growing them 

 on his own soil. So the people of the 

 Brooklyn Cooperage Company, with 

 experience, learned how to do the best 

 tree planting at the least expense, and 

 President Parker established his own 

 tree nursery. 



