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the latter have been lumbered; some 

 have asked if this is nature's method of 

 rotation. 



When pines are removed, there is no 

 seed left to reproduce these forests, 

 while squirrels and other small animals, 

 birds, the wind and f owing water, at 

 times bring acorns, nuts, fruit of berry 

 trees and light-winged seeds from long 

 distances, and old, decaying stumps 

 make excellent perches and nesting- 

 places for these great tree planters of 

 nature. If frequent seed trees were 

 left when clearing timber nature would 

 reproduce the forest. This should al- 

 ways be done. 



Profits in Paper. 



Trees suitable for wood pulp need not 

 be so large as for lumber, and a dozen 

 years will produce good returns in the 

 quick-growing soft woods. Yellow 

 poplar, which is not a poplar, 

 but liriodendron, wilJrws, and simi- 

 lar soft woods are suitable for pulp, 

 many of them may be grown from cut- 

 tings. All will grow on sandy land if 

 moisture is present, although of course 

 they make more progress in rich land. 



Essentially Northern localities are 

 preferable for pulp. With land at low 

 prices, taxation moderate and labor ob- 

 tainable at fair rates, money will be well 

 invested in growing paper stock. 



The Carolina poplar, or cottonwood, 

 Aspen and Abele will grow in ten or 

 twelve years, and may be planted 7x7 

 feet, or 900 trees per acre. 



Black walnut grows rapidly in mod- 

 erately rich soil. The nuts should be 

 planted in autumn or kept moist until 

 early spring, and planted where the 

 trees are to remain. They may be used 

 to fill in gaps in the wood land, or with 

 system placed in solid forest. Unless 

 grass is abundant no cultivation will be 



needed in forest, but young groves 

 should be thoroughly cultivated for sev- 

 eral years. 



In the South the pecan is destined 

 to become and remain a profitable nut 

 tree, and will always be in demand as 

 timber. Where carriage spokes are 

 to come from in the future is hard to 

 tell. Pecan and other forms af hickory 

 are becoming very scarce. Here, too, the 

 nuts should be planted where they are 

 to remain, at least not attempting to 

 transplant nut trees after the first year. 



The chestnut is indigenous to New 

 England, Pennsylvania, New York and 

 the mountains of West Virginia and 

 Tennessee. Here this tree should be ex- 

 tensively grown to replace the forests 

 now so rapidly disappearing. 



The chestnut grows from the stump 

 after the tree is cut, reproducing itself 

 perpetually. It is of rapid growth, and 

 useful for lumber, crossties, posts, etc. 

 The young sprouts are used for barrel 

 hoops, where abundant. It might be 

 profitable to plant for this purpose. 



NEW BOOK FOR CHILDREN. 



Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 

 have Two Little Savages, by Ernest 

 Thompson Seaton, for the holidays. 

 Such a writer as Mr. Seaton, combining 

 the flow of language in entertaining fic- 

 tion with a thorough knowledge of na- 

 ture, of beasts and birds, trees and flow- 

 ers in their wild, native state, can not 

 fail to attract great interest whether on 

 the lecture platform or in his books of 

 woodcraft. The youth who reads this 

 book learns much of nature v/hile being 

 entertained with the story. The pro- 

 fuse illustrations will enable any one to 

 go into the woods and recognize many 

 of the plants, trees, birds and common 

 animals, and this is science, popularized. 

 The book should stimulate children to a 

 further study of nature. It jS a good 

 and safe book for parents to give their 

 children. Price $1.75 net. 



