PLANTING ESTIMATES 131 



ESTIMATES FOR PLANTING AND ESTABLISHING. 



The following estimates will serve as useful guides. It is 

 in all cases supposed that the trees are raised in a home 

 nursery ; otherwise the expenses will usually be far greater. 



It is also presumed that an area of about 40 acres is 

 fenced at a time, at a cost of 303. an acre. 



Supervision is not specially charged, as it is reckoned 

 along with the annual outgoings of the whole area under 

 forest management. The cost of weeding and cleaning, 

 cutting out rank grass and replacing dead trees, is, however, 

 included, thus giving the total cost of establishing a 

 plantation. 



(1) Pure Douglas Fir. On good deep loam now covered 

 with grass ; 2 year 2 year plants used. Pit planting 4 by 4 

 feet apart : 



Digging pits, 2700, at i8s. per 1000 . . .^290 



Planting, at 93. per 1000 146 



2750* 2 year 2 year, at 305. per 1000. . . 426 



Planting only . 7 16 o 



Rabbit fencing ;i 10 o 



Cutting-out, etc i 14 o 



340 



Total cost per acre . 11 o o 



(2) Douglas Fir. Same as (i) (i.e. 2 year 2 year plants; 

 4 by 4 feet apart), but trees put in with a planting spike. 

 The land first ploughed deeply once in the autumn : 



i ploughing ........ o 13 o 



Planting with spike and trowel, at 7s. per 1000 . 0190 

 2750 plants, at 305. per 1000 . . . . 426 



Planting only . . $ 14 6 



Rabbit fencing ..... ^i 10 o 

 Cutting-out, etc ..... i 10 6 



- 306 



Total cost per acre . .8 15 o 

 1 To allow for waste. 



