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One lo-ft. log, 14" diam at butt, 13" at top. 

 One lo-ft. log, 13" diam. at butt, 9" at top. 



The second tree measured twenty-six 

 inches at the butt, and tapered gradually 

 to a nine-inch top, fifty-two feet up. 

 It was straight and perfectly sound 

 throughout. Several logs from each of 

 these trees had been split once through 

 the center, and all showed up perfectly 

 clear and sound-hearted throughout, the 

 first cut eighteen feet long not even show- 

 ing a knot. 



A larger tree standing near, measured 

 eighty-four inches circumference two feet 

 up ; seventy-two inches circumference 

 twelve feet up, the estimated height being 

 sixty feet to forks. 



Another of about the same height meas- 

 ured seventy-six inches circumference at 

 butt ; sixty inches twelve feet up. 



Most of the trees in this natural grove 

 had grown up within fifty years. The 

 growth had never been dense. Many 

 slender, upright saplings were growing 

 fifteen to twenty feet away from other 

 trees, and there is no evidence that this 

 natural growth has ever been crowded. 

 The farmers, who valued these trees and 

 wished them to grow well and rapidly, 

 had seen to it that every tree had sufficient 

 space for its roots to spread. 



Our chief interest, however, is not in 

 what the forest has produced, but in what 

 can be done by planting. Very near the 

 natural groves I found rows of trees 

 planted along lanes and about the borders 

 of fields. A tree which had been recently 

 cut from one of these rows was lying 

 upon the ground, affording a fine oppor- 

 tunity for measurements. The first cut 

 was nine feet long and measured sixteen 

 inches at butt, ten and a half inches at the 

 top. The second cut eight feet long 

 measured ten and a half inches at large 

 end and nine and a half at the top, or 

 small end. The third cut measured six 



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