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high. This is a costly plan, but may be adopted when one 

 wishes to save time, or desires a few trees as a wind-break or 

 otherwise. In transplanting trees immediately from my own 

 nursery to the fields, my favorite time is just as the bads begin 

 to start in the spring. I have planted seeds both with a plan- 

 ter and by hand. On our light sands a man and a boy will 

 plant three acres in a day dropping six seeds in a hill, it will 

 take about one-half a pound of seed to the acre. This is rny 

 favorite method and is more satisfactory in results though 

 more costly than that of using the plough and planter. When 

 the evergreens are two feet high I would thin them, leaving 

 one thrifty plant in each hill. I do not trim till they get large 

 and then cut off only the dead branches." 



Tully Crosby, of Brewster, said : " In our small town about 

 1500 acres of old waste land have been planted with pitch 

 pine. The Norway pine has not proved a success with us. 

 Many old fields bought for fifty cents per acre and planted 

 with pine twenty-five years ago, are now worth from $10 to 

 $20 per acre. The pines grow well for twenty-five or thirty 

 years and when cut off a second crop springs up immediately 

 and this crop does better than the first. The pitch pine takes 

 root and grows on our barren beach sand where no soil is per- 

 ceptible. Our people are now planting trees every year. I 

 have recently planted twelve acres. Two years ago I cut off a 

 lot planted thirty years since and the land is now full of young 

 pines scattered by the first growth. A man with a two-horse 

 team and planting machine can plant ten acres in a day and 

 three pounds of seed will do the whole." 



E. Higgins, of Eastham, said : " Thirty years ago twenty 

 acres of condemned tillage land, worth one dollar per acre, was 

 planted with pitch pine. The present value of this land is $15 

 per acre. In 1870, 225 acres more of the same sort of land 

 was thus planted, the present value of which is $8 per acre. 

 About 150 acres of sandy land, utterly barren and not worth 

 fifty cents to the acre have been planted, the present value of 

 which is $7 per acre." John G. Thompson, of North Truxo, 

 says : " About 650 acres have been planted in this town. The 

 price of pitch pine seed for the last few years has been $1.50 

 per pound. Thirty years ago land in this town could be 



