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Here was a tract of forty-three acres of timber with a 

 3'ield of less than sixteen thousand feet B.M. per acre, as 

 ordinarily estimated, a stumpage of about five dollars 

 per thousand feet, and a profit of over one hundred dol- 

 lars per acre. Though it is not possible to repeat this 

 everywhere, it goes far to explain why good hardwood 

 timber in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey sells at 

 one hundred to one hundred and fifty dollars per acre 

 when farm land does not bring one half as much, while 

 only thirty years ago the case Avas exactly the reverse 

 and the farms were rated by the amount of cleared land. 

 It also shows how, at least in a large part of the eastern 

 United States, woods may be exploited in a careful instead 

 of wasteful manner, and how many a small holder, who 

 can give the matter his personal attention and do much 

 of the work at odd times, may make his wood lot a source 

 of revenue. 



Waste Lands 



On every trip through the country, especially in all 

 hilly districts or in walks about any of our smaller towns 

 and villages, one notices pieces of land from a few rods to 

 several, often many, acres in extent which have practically 

 gone to waste. Some of these pieces are rich spots along 

 our streams, perhaps a little wet or subject to ovei^ow ; 

 others are dry, often stony, hillsides, where the removal of 

 the woods, the decay of the roots, and subsequent plowing 



