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been sold for, I think it was, $75. The lumber in that black 

 walnut tree brought $75. The black walnut lumber of this 

 country is fast passing away, it is lumber that will be wanted 

 always, and he who puts out a black walnut tree upon his land 

 and cultivates it for twenty-five or thirty years, while he may 

 receive nothing from his labors during that time from that 

 land, yet, at the end, he will have a fortune if he puts out 

 enough of them. 



A VOICE. Hadn't he better get his life insured? Wouldn't 

 that pay better? 



Mr. HOYT. Whether he lives to reap the benefit of it, or 

 whether some one else gets it, is in a sense immaterial. We 

 don't live in this world entirely for ourselves. We live in this 

 world, certainly to some extent, for those who are to come 

 after us, as well as for ourselves, and anybody who puts out 

 black walnut trees, or the European larch, or the white pine 

 will have trees that will be sure to bring a heavy revenue in 

 thirty or forty years. 



In planting trees for forest, in my opinion, it is advisable, 

 at least from my observation in growing them, to put out a 

 good variety; that is to say, I would not put out pine, oak, or 

 black walnut alone, but I would begin the forest with pine and 

 other valuable timber trees of various kinds interspersed 

 among them. They will grow better and they will grow 

 faster, and they will be more profitable if they are grown in 

 that way. We have on our place trees that I set out, per- 

 haps forty years ago. I put out a tulip in the center of a 

 group and surrounded it with white pine and Norway spruce, 

 and those trees have all been trying to see which would get 

 up the fastest, and that old tulip planted in the center of the 

 group is now a tree seventy-five feet high, and stands there 

 above the rest. There is a white pine two feet in diameter 

 there. I measured that white pine, and it is two feet and four 

 inches. 



I have noticed in the nursery where we grow mixed trees 



