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tion. There was a good sale for the fence posts* among the farmers of 

 the vicinity, though most of them sold in carload lots to farmers and 

 ranchmen in the western part of the state. 



Mr. Robinson, writing in regard to his grove, says: "I am well pleased 

 with the result. It has been a source of a great deal of pleasure and 

 very little bother or worry — yes, I did worry some last fall for fear I 

 might not find a market for my stuff, but now I worry because I cannot 

 supply the demand for my posts. I could sell 60,000 more this spring 

 if I had them. 



"If I had it to do over I could realize quite a little more from the 

 same timber. I should have had fifteen cents each for the posts which 

 I sold for twelve and one-half cents. They were a fine post, and would 

 have sold readily at fifteen cents. I also found a good sale for the ten- 

 foot posts for stables and sheds, and could have sold several thousand 

 fourteen and sixteen-foot poles for sheds and cross-country telephone 

 poles." 



In establishing, maintaining, and harvesting this grove, Mr. Robinson 

 has hired everything done and paid good wages. A farmer could have 

 done most of the work himself at odd times and could have easily saved 

 one-half the expense. Nevertheless the enterprise has been a profitable 

 one and is a splendid object lesson in showing what can be done in 

 forest planting when rightly handled. 



