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The chestnut grows from the stump after the tree is cut, reproducing itself 

 perpetually. It is of rapid growth, and useful for lumber, cross-ties, posts, etc. 

 The young sprouts are used for barrel hoops, where abundant. It might be 

 profitable to plant for this purpose. 



LUMBERING. 



Most of the lumbermen of to-day, as well as of the past, only see the present 

 timber value in the standing forests. They do not consider the importance of 

 a new forest to take the place of the one which the unseen power always at work 

 has provided for them. The carelessness in many instances is simply appalling. 

 This negligence causes fire to overrun the cut over land, totally destroying what 

 seed and young seedlings may have been left. Conservative lumbering is a sub- 

 ject every owner of timber land ought to familiarize himself with. 



PROFIT IX PINE TREES. 



John Murphy, a farmer of Fayette county, Indiana, is now 68 years of age. 

 When he was 18 years old he planted a number of evergreens on the farm which 

 has always been his home. Arbor vitse, fir and pine were planted, all of which 

 died except the white pine, an ornament and a shade, when Mr. Murphy cut the 

 tree and had it sawed into lumber. 



Only one twelve-foot log was sawed from the broken tree, which was 24 

 inches in diameter at top. It made 300 feet of lumber. 



Mr. Murphy is the owner of 227 acres, part of which is yet in woodlands; 

 ash, oak, etc.. which he does not consider of great profit on account of the inferior 

 character of the wood. Now suppose, that when this pine was planted one 

 hundred acres of his farm had been used for the same purpose, the trees set 20x20 

 feet, or 100 trees per acre. He would now have for sale three million feet of white 

 pine lumber, which at $10 per 1,000 feet, net a low price truly, but safe for an 

 estimate that portion of his farm would now be worth $30,000. 



Mr. John Murphy can not turn the wheels of time backwards and begin life 

 anew by planting his farm in white pine. Yet there are a million fanners in the 

 United States who can and should begin now to plant pine, walnut, catalpa and 

 other trees with which to supply the future manufacturers and commerce with 

 lumber, and incidentally to provide an ample income for their old age. 



