28 REPORT ON FOREST TREES. 



Interest on do., 1125 00 



Int. on $9,375, old balance for 10 years 4685 00 



Total outlay for 20 years, $22,185 00 



Deduct produce of 1000 trees thinned out from eacli acre, 



at 12J cents per tree, at $125 per acre, 12,500 00 



Deduct for enhancement of value, during the last 10 years 



of 1422 trees per acre, remaining at $160 per acre, 16,000 00 



28,500 00 

 Leaving an actual profit, after paying rent, interest and 



expenses, of 6315 00 



Up to this period, the comparative gain is small, but the same 



calculation continued for 10 years more, will show a profit of 



$118,335 00, and the end of forty years from the time of planting, 



the round sum of $205,000 00. 



These calculations, as Montieth remarks, may to those who have 

 paid no attention to the subject, excite wonder, if not doubt, but in 

 making them, he says he 'has been careful to lessen rather than to 

 exaggerate the profits. 



The following facts, given in the Encyclopedia Brittania, of Art 

 and Agriculture, confirm Mr. Monteith. Mr. Pavier, in the 4th vol. of 

 the Bath papers, computes the value of fifty acres of oak timber, in 

 one hundred years, to be $60,000, and Evelyn calculates 1000 

 acres of oak in 150 years, at no less than at three million and three 

 hundred thousand dollars. Both these writers, who are of known 

 authority, made their calculations at a period when the timber was 

 of less value than at the time of Montieth's calculation, by at least 

 one half. 



Let us hear what Mr. Low, in his valuable work, "Landed Prop- 

 erty and the Economy of States," says. "The planter has been 

 characterized as the most disinterested of men, because he labors 

 for posterity. The claim of the planter to this distinction may be 

 questioned, although he may enjoy the thought that the workman- 

 ship of his hands will not perish with him. Like every one who la- 

 bors from choice, the planter experiences gratification in his pursuit. 

 The little tree which he places in the ground, quickly becomes a 

 part of the landscape around ; and thus the taste is gratified, almost 

 as soon as the work is done. In a few years more, his woods yield 



