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apply to all timber trees. By thinning thick young growth, 

 where growing lire wood, you will get many more cords of 

 wood when it is of good size for the market. 



Hon. John E. Russell (of Leicester). This is a very 

 important subject, and I regret that the Board has not time 

 to discuss it in full this afternoon. I judge, from the ques- 

 tions that are asked here, that it is a question that w^ould 

 bear discussion. Now, my friend Mr. Ware asks if it is 

 better to procure seedlings of wdiite pines rather than to 

 plant the seeds. Mr. Manning of Reading, one of the best 

 foresters in the United States, said that he once supplied a 

 man with two thousand yearling white pines, and every one 

 of them perished, owing to the manner in which they were 

 set out ; and Mr. Manning, who was a nurseryman, consid- 

 ered it much better for a farmer going into this branch of 

 husbandry to sow the seed of pines and to gather his own 

 seed. He also thought it best to begin with five hundred 

 trees to the acre, and gradually thin them out. 



There is no doubt that this is the home of the white pine. 

 Massachusetts, New England, indeed, is the home of the 

 white pine tree, and it is the l)est, most useful lumber that 

 ever was offered to the service of man. It grows readily 

 with us, and, indeed, so do all trees. The State of Massa- 

 chusetts, except Carolina, is the best part of the United 

 States for forestry. We have some examples in Massachu- 

 setts to which attention might be drawm. Down at Wood's 

 Holl Mr. Jose})h S. Fay has the most splendid example of 

 trees in the eastern part of this country, and perhaps on the 

 Atlantic coast. Mr. Fa}' raised a great number of his trees 

 from the seed. He has a great variety of trees there. 

 They have grown with a great deal of vigor from the seeds, 

 and it is a magnificent j)lantation. 



Men have greatly enriched their families by planting trees. 

 JSfo man will enriclt himself hij jjlanting trees, and that is 

 why our farmers do not pknit them. We do not have a 

 sufficient fixedness of purpose. We are looking to go into 

 some other business, to leave the farm and go somewhere 

 else, and that is one reason why we do not plant trees. The 

 farmers do not expect to eat the fruit, and that is why they 

 do not plant fruit trees. They do not work for the future. 



