138 YEARBOOK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



applies to a plantation established forty years ago, and to be marketed 

 now, than to one established now and to be marketed forty years in 

 the future. In the last forty years White Pine lumber, as represented 

 by the Detroit market, has advanced fully 100 per cent. If it should 

 advance in the same proportion in the next forty years, the return on 

 this investment would be proportionately greater. 



While this estimate is for White Pine it is applicable to Red Pine 

 and Norway Spruce over a large part of New England. From Mas- 

 sachusetts to North Carolina the Chestnut may be counted on to give 

 commensurate returns when grown for telegraph poles and railroad 

 ties, and likewise the Black Locust for posts. a In Virginia, the Caro- 

 linas, and Georgia is much land that could be planted to Loblolly Pine 

 with indications of profit equal to the estimate. Actual examples of 

 planting the Loblolly Pine are lacking, but its rapid growth strongly 

 indicates great usefulness as a planted tree. Black Walnut may also 

 be counted as a profitable tree for planting in the Southeastern States. 

 It is adapted only to the more fertile soils, and requires from seventy- 

 five to one hundred years to produce lumber of great value. 



It happens in many cases that there are protective as well as financial 

 considerations. Soil which erodes easily by water or is so sandy as to 

 be blown by the wind may be retained and improved by a forest cover. 

 A forest furnishes the best possible cover for the watersheds of storage 

 reservoirs. For this reason fully as much as for the financial one, 

 several water companies are planting extensively in the Eastern States. 

 Among the most important of these are the Metropolitan Water and 

 Sewerage Board of Massachusetts, which is planting on the watershed 

 of its immense reservoir at Clinton, jVlass., and the water department 

 of the city of Woonsocket, R. I. (PL III, fig. 1). In both cases the 

 planting is being done in cooperation with the Bureau of Forestry. 

 The water companies supplying the cities of New Haven and Hart- 

 ford, Conn., are also planting large tracts about their reservoirs under 

 plans prepared by the director of the Yale Forest School, and the city 

 of Middletown, Conn., is similarly planting under directions from the 

 State forester. 



The States of New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut have re- 

 cently acquired extensive areas of nonagricultural land, and are now 

 engaged in the work of foresting them. The State of New York 

 especially is undertaking work of great magnitude. Within the 

 Adirondack Preserve are about 60,000 acres of burnt-over waste land 

 which it is planned to reforest. A beginning was made last year by 

 the planting of 750 acres, and it is proposed hereafter to plant at tne 

 rate of 1,000 acres per year until the waste land is covered. Nur- 

 series for the growing of seedlings are now being established. 



Albert Neilson, in Forestry and Irrigation, August, 1902. 



