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THE FORESTER. 



August, 



double that number of crops are grown, 

 and an equal number of taxes levied ; 

 while in growing a crop of lumber the 

 owner pays from seventy-five to one hun- 

 dred and fifty taxes on the one crop. The 

 above is the hard side of the case and in 

 my judgment is a proper subject for legis- 

 lation. We have in New Hampshire 

 about 30,000 farms, and, according to the 

 census of 1SS0 116,000 acres of idle land, 

 producing neither farm nor forest crops. 

 Much of this is good land upon which to 

 grow lumber and it could be easily seeded 

 to the proper timber trees if the owners 



What will be the results from planting 

 one of these poor and idle acres to White 

 Pine seed ? Suppose the seed costs a dol- 

 lar and the planting two dollars. Out of 

 courtesy to real estate call the idle land 

 one dollar. Here is an investment of 

 four dollars. At ten years of age, of the 

 2,722 seedlings four feet apart each way, 

 one-half should be cut out, leaving 1,361. 

 For kindling wood, bean, pea sticks, or 

 fence slats, these thinnings might or might 

 not pay the farmer for the slight expense 

 of a little labor in his more leisure hours. 

 Now each tree has thirty-two feet of space. 





YOUNG WHITE PINK IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Courtesy ol the Bureau of Forestn] 

 (TREES TWENTY YEARS OLD.) 



had the required knowledge, and their at- 

 tention was directed to the subject. 



The White Pine (P. strobus), Spruce 

 and Chestnut would be the most profitable 

 trees for many localities. 



How soon this space will be occupied and 

 the trees begin to crowd so as to require 

 more space by means of a second thin- 

 ning, depends upon the varying rate of 

 growth in different localities. At the sec- 



