THE MONEY VALUE OF FARM 

 PLANTATIONS 



OCR country is so new that very few of our tree 

 plantations have ever been cut. Consequently 

 we have very little data on the actual money returns 

 on them. Theoretically we know pretty well what 

 they should yield but some people are slow to accept 

 theory in such matters. To them the following reports 

 of actual results may be of interest. 



Castle Hock, Minn., March 14, 1919. 

 Mr. \Vm. T. Cox, 

 61 S. St. Albans, 

 St. Paul, Minn. 

 My Dear W. T. : 



Your two letters of recent date are received. Very 

 glad indeed to hear from you. 



Audit men who have raised trees for profit: 

 In my experience the only man to whom I can ac- 

 tually refer as having some basis for figuring a purely 

 financial gain on his planted trees, is A. R. Voss, of St. 

 James. \Vatonwnn Co. At the time of my visit there 

 he had some 26 acres of planted trees of some 28 or 29 

 varieties of both conifers and hards, on one of his 

 farms. These, at that time, 1912, were about 15 years 

 old. They had been paying him good returns both in 

 fuel for his various farms and town house and as a 

 windbreak to his corn field in the dry year of 11)11. 

 Roughly we estimated that his trees had, up to that 

 time, repaid to him ample rent for the period of time 

 for which they had occupied the ground and some 



