38 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Mr. Lyman has recommended an excellent plan for trim- 

 ming trees. But nothing has ever been done, nothing has 

 ever been laid out upon my trees, except the expense of 

 planting pine seeds forty-eight years ago. If some gentle- 

 man should offer me one thousand dollars for those five 

 acres, I should refuse the offer. I believe I can get more 

 money by having it cut, doing none of the labor myself. I 

 believe there are sixty cords to the acre on one or two 

 acres. 



I have been intensely interested in the essay. I believe 

 what Mr. Lyman has said here to-day is just what the people 

 of the State of Massachusetts ought to do with these aban- 

 doned lands which we have heard so nuich of in late years. 

 If })ine seed were scattered over them, they would be a 

 source of income, if not to the present generation, then to 

 their children. 



In regard to Mr. Ware's question : within one and one- 

 half miles of this lot of five acres, which I said I would not 

 take one thousand dollars for, there are some twenty or 

 twenty-five acres which another gentleman employed a nur- 

 seryman to plant to pine trees when they were al)out two 

 and one-half or three feet high. I think every one of these 

 trees lived. I looked that lot all over with Mr. Austin 

 Carey, and it is in a condition that is not desirable to have. 

 The trees have branched out badly, I think, from the light I 

 have received from Mr. Lyman, that the cause may be the 

 worm he has spoken of. By cutting ofl' the top it has 

 caused these branches to come out. That lot of twenty or 

 twenty-five acres is to be sold at auction next Saturday, and 

 I am told by good judges of lumber that it will not bring 

 one thousand dollars ; that only a small part, if any, is 

 worth anything for timber, that it must be put into fire 

 wood. That is an illustration of transplanted pine trees. 

 It is within a mile and a half of the five acres that I planted 

 myself. I have cut off most of the land that I have planted 

 and got some spending money, and the spending money is 

 gone. 



Mr. Geo. Cruickshanks (of Fitch burg). Mr. Russell 

 has referred to the planting of larches in Scotland. There 

 are nurserymen in Great Britain who make a business of 



