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off the brush in the fall, and sowed white pine seeds, broadcast, 

 in March, 1850, on nearly three-fourths of an acre. There are 

 now 1,064 trees on the lot. 



My sixth lot (small lot) of pitch pines, planted in sward land, 

 March, 1848, with 309 trees, is a very thin piece of land, and 

 stony. The several lots on which my pine trees are growing, 

 did not pay for cultivation, forty years previous to planting the 

 trees. I think now these lots would be considered worth four 

 times as much as they cost me, including my labor. 

 1st lot, 708 trees, . 





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perhaps, 

 perhaps, 



8,992 900 " " 



Or 5 acres and 100 rods. This averages nearly ten trees to the 

 rod. I presume that I have nearly or quite 4,000 white pine 

 trees growing in several lots where there were some scattering 

 trees, sowed at different times, which I have not counted. 

 Perhaps they cover in all, something like two and a half acres. 



Statement of George Wood. 



In behalf of the estate of Richard Sampson, who put in his 

 claim for premium on forest trees, I would say that I adminis- 

 tered on the estate, and that I have not found any account 

 among the papers of his doings on the subject. But from his 

 widow and neighbors I have learned the following : Mr. Samp- 

 son first began by planting white pine seed ; they did not come 

 up well, and were partly deemed a failure. He then began to 

 transplant pine trees from the woods. The change was so great? 

 taking young pines in the shade and setting them in the sun- 

 shine, that a great portion of them did not grow, but withered 

 away. He then took them from the open field and the roadside ; 

 the result was that they nearly all grew well. He has set some 

 8,000 or more trees in rows, from six to eight feet apart. They 

 were set from May to October. He said the best time to trans- 

 plant is the last week in May or the first in June. As near 

 as I can learn, he began to transplant about 1844, and continued 



