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constant expense in taxes. A timber crop not only gives a return 

 on the money invested, hut it makes productive tlie capital 

 locked up in the land. These returns are figured on the yield 

 obtainable without pruning, thinning, etc. If forestry treatment 

 is given the returns sliould be higher. Again, these profits are 

 figured on prices of stumj)age prevailing today. The future 

 profits will be higher in proportion to the advance in stumpage 

 values. 



Timber culUire for profit is strongly commended to landowners, 

 especially where lands are being held that are producing no 

 returns whatever. One great advantage of tree culture is that 

 the farmer and his regular labor can be readily taught to do the 

 work and that very little attention save protection is needed after 

 the crop is once started. 



Mr. Borst's address was well calculated to demonstrate the 

 entire practicalnlity of forest culture for ])rofit. 



Discussion. 



Benjamin P. Ware said there was no question that the subject 

 of forestry was of the greatest imj>ortance. The lecturer had 

 treated it on a large scale and he had noticed in some of the 

 illustrations that the ground was covered with men, as many as 

 thirty in some instances. Now that method was too costly for 

 the average farmer. 



lie Ijelieved in following nature's method, that of scattering 

 the pine seeds broadcast, which required no labor, no artificial 

 appliances, no seedlings, and no great cost. 



He knew of a bushy, rocky tract of land that had been well 

 covered with a good growth of white pine by simply scattering 

 .seeds over it. 



In Germany owners of land were obliged by law to cultivate a 

 certain amount of forest trees and he urged the everyday farmer 

 to go into forest planting. 



Mr. Borst replied that broadcast seed sowing was wasteful and 

 that the seeds were liable to dry \i\> or to be eaten by birds and 



