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more promising half be left to mature, as they 

 should be ; two years later, another and larger crop 

 of hoop-poles may be cut, still sparing the best ; and 

 thenceforth a valuable crop of timber may be taken 

 from that land ; for, if cut at the proper season, at 

 least two thrifty sprouts will start from every stump ; 

 and so that wood will yield a clear income each year 

 while its best trees are steadily growing and matur- 

 ing. I do not advise restriction to those two species 

 of timber ; but I insist that a young plantation of 

 forest- trees may and should yield a clear income in 

 every year after its fourth. 



As to the Far West the Plains, the Parks, and the 

 Great Basin there is more money to be made by 

 dotting them with groves of choice timber than by 

 working the richest veins of the adjacent mountaiffs. 

 Whoever will promptly start, near a present or pros- 

 pective railroad, forty acres of choice trees Hick- 

 ory, White Oak, Locust, Chestnut, and White Pine 

 within a circuit of three hundred miles from Den- 

 ver, on land which he has made or is making pro- 

 vision to irrigate may- begin to sell trees therefrom 

 two years hence, and persist in selling annually 

 henceforth for a century at first, for transplanting ; 

 very soon, for a variety of uses in addition to that. 



But this paper grows too long, and I must post- 

 pone to the next my more especial suggestions to 

 young" farmers with regard to tree-planting. 



