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PRINCIPLES OF AMERICAN FORESTRY. 



The Profit from an Investment in Land that is stocked 

 with only very small coniferous seedlings is altogether 

 too small and too remote to prove an attraction to in- 

 vestors at present, even were the danger from fire entirely 

 eliminated. But there is considerable land that is now 

 stocked with a good growth of young pine of fair 

 size that could be bought and managed at a good profit 



FIG. 59. Cross-section of White Pine open grown. 



if the danger from fire could be greatly reduced. This 

 land in many cases would not have to be held more than 

 ten or fifteen years to secure a good profit on the invest- 

 ment, after which the profit might be made nearly con- 

 tinuous. The rapid-growing deciduous trees, such as 

 the Poplar, Willow, White and Yellow Birch, Soft Maple, 

 Chestnut, Ash, Red and White Elm, Hackberry, Catalpa, 

 Basswood, Locust, Black Walnut, and Tamarack, may 

 sometimes be planted and grown at a profit on waste 



