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coming" spring 1 am preparing to plant 

 one hundred and twenty-five acres to 

 catalpa trees of my own land. 



I think that twenty-five thousand trees, 

 besides those I shall plant, will be set in 

 this vicinity the coming spring, so that 

 we will have growing some two hundred 

 and eleven thousand trees from two vears" 

 setting. 



I believe we. as a community, can lay 

 claim to being the largest planters of for- 

 est trees in the whole country, on high- 

 priced farming land. This land is all 

 worth from sixty to one hundred dollars 

 per acre. 



I am not going into this wholesale 

 planting of trees from any sentimental 

 reasons, but as a good business propo- 

 sition. 



My investigations have convinced me 

 that I can expect to make more than twice 

 as much, during a ten-year period of time, 

 from the trees as I could hope to make 

 from farming this land, and it is good 

 corn and wheat land, too. 



Continue your good work for pure trees 

 and seed. I believe three-fourths of the 

 trees ofifered for sale as pure "speciosa" 

 are hybrid or scrub stock. Yours truly, 



H. C. Rogers. 



We have received the very nent ,ind instruct- 

 ive pamphlet of Messrs. Chittenden & Patter- 

 son. Consulting arid Contracting Foresters, Law 

 Building, Baltimore, Md. From a perusal ol 

 their letter we should think the firm eminently 

 fitted for pH-actical management of forest estates. 



This work is of great importance to owners 

 of timher tracts and wood lots. 



' ' Waiting f 07^ a rise ' ' 



COAI, TRANSPORTATION SCENE ON THE YOUGHIOGHENY RIVER, 

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