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feet apart, containing 12,000 trees, at twelve years 

 were 8 inches in diameter and 35 feet high, the 

 previous thinning paying all expenses of planting and 

 cultivation. Ten feet of the bodies of these trees 

 were worth, for making bent stuff, &c., 40 cents each, 

 and the remaining top 10 cents, making a total of 

 6000 dollars as the profits of 10 acres in twelve 

 years, or a yearly profit of 50 dollars per acre for 

 each year's growth. Mr Everett is said to have 

 sold 23 acres of black walnut, of twenty-three years' 

 growth, for 2*7,000 dollars, or 50 dollars per acre for 

 each year's growth. By the way, it is well to re- 

 member that ash will grow where many trees will 

 not." In this country, on the contrary, ash timber is 

 most. difficult to grow profitably to large size. 



" But the great point noticeable is that the money 

 is secured, or rather secures itself, without labour 

 after the first ten years. Any plantation, men of ex- 

 perience say, in which the trees are 6 feet high, and 

 the ground so shaded that weeds and grasses cannot 

 grow, needs no more care till the time comes to thin 

 it for posts." 



