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Plantation in account with Dr. 



To 10 acres prairie (§ $15.00 $150.00 



" breaking and one year's cultivation «> $5.00 50.00 



" 15,000 yearling trees, 5 aorta <§ $5.00 per m 75.00 



" cultivating S years @ $6.00 00.00 



" cutting out alternate row .">tli year 30.00 



" cutting out alternate row 9th year 80.00 



" interest upon Bret two items, in 10 per cent, for 12 years 330.00 



" interest ii] ion fourth Item (5 10 per cent, for 10 years 60.00 



" taxes 12 years, an average value of $10. per acre, at average of 2 per cent, with 



interest @ 10 per cent, on taxes 38.00 



$873.00 



Cr. 



P.v t',,4' "i five vear old poles, average contents }^ cubic foot, 25 cords @ $5.00 $ 125.00 



■'• 1,200 nine year old trees, average contents 4 cubic feet, 100 cords @ $5.00 500.00 



" 8,200 twelve year old trees of 8 cubic feet, 200 cords 1,000.00 



" two years start upon another grove by sprouting of stumps 250.00 



" original value of land 150.00 



$2025.00 

 873.00 



$1152.00 

 As net profit of $115.20 per acre, and this when every item upon the debtor or expense 

 side has been made as large as could be made to seem reasonable, and while every item 

 on the profit side, has been estimated as small as known facts would warrant, and though 

 we are at present unaware that just such an experimental grove as we have represented 

 has ever been grown and accounts kept, yet we will make bold to predict that more than 

 double the clear profit here indicated may be realized by any prairie farmer, and then 

 leave out of account improvement to the land, and increase in market value of timber 

 lands. 



If cottonwood was used the ten acres would yield nearly if not quite double the 

 amount of fuel that our account credits, but Soft Maple and Honey Maple and Hickory 

 Elm and Red Elm were in our view, in making the above bill, and with one of these trees 

 there is a source of profit after the 9th year almost equal to its profit for fuel, namely, 

 the production of sugar and syrup, which will be considered in its appropriate department. 

 The policy and profit of planting for fuel the Poplar family of trees is often ques- 

 tioned, and there seems to be a wide spread prejudice against them. But time will 

 doubtless dispel a prejudice so unfounded, and to the Poplar family, with some of the 

 Maples and the hardier Pines, is reserved the most magnificent work of civilization, to 

 redeem the plains or great American desert from its thraldom of drought and desolation 

 and make it a good pastoral if not an agricultural region. 



THE PRODUCTION OF MANUFACTURING WOODS. 



The 1 1 — t nf manufacturing woods is not a large one. Headed by the White Pine, whose 

 millions of feet of lumber freights thousands of long railway trains, and covers thousands 

 of acres of river and lake surface, it embraces the building lumbers, the cabinet Lumbers, 

 the Implement and machine strong timbers, the wheelwright's stutTs, the cooper's atufb, 

 and the material for the innumerable small wood manufactures down to the line box 

 block upon which the engraver cuts his lines. 



Within this list there arc a few woods which we cannot produce, by reason of climatic 

 incompatibility, but the great mass we can produce. 



