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feet in height and from 0.9 to 1.3 feet in diameter at 

 the base. The four trees gave 70.6 cubic feet of timber 

 for pulp, which yielded 1,225 Ibs. of the dry product. 

 At the present price of pulp the total yield per acre, if 

 cut, would be $1,111. If to the value of the land an 

 equal sum be added for the planting, plus compound 

 interest and taxes, the total capital employed may be 

 estimated at $64.83 per acre, so that the total yield 

 for 32 years would be $1,046, or $32.70 per acre for 

 each year.* All hillsides and all rough lands in the 

 world should be in forest. 



A few miles from Spencerville stands a shaft on the 

 spot where the first Macintosh apple tree grew. In 

 its native home, Eastern Ontario, this fine variety 

 attains an excellence which it reaches nowhere else; 

 and here it should be largely grown. The orchard 

 lands of British Columbia command a price of $1,000 

 an acre. Yet large areas in our Eastern Provinces 

 those adapted to the growing of the Macintosh in East- 

 ern Ontario, for instance, the Eameuse near Montreal, 

 or the New Brunswicker in the St. John Valley are 

 in the market for one-tenth to one-twentieth or even 

 one-fortieth of that price because now devoted to dairy- 

 ing and grain-growing, which under scientific orchard- 

 ing would yield as large returns as do the Okanagan 

 fruit lands. Not over one-tenth of the suitable land is 

 u-ider orchard in the far-famed Annapolis Valley. 



Putting the land to a more appropriate use has 

 proved, in specific cases, a real solution of the problem 

 of depopulation. Fruit-growing has saved the situa- 

 tion in several counties in Ontario. Wentworth County 



* Publications of the International Agricultural Institute, 

 Rome, Vol. I, No. 6, p. 34. 



