Profitable Tree Planting 



of an acre in this wood harvest is sixty cords of four-foot wood. 

 "One seventeen-acre grove near Los Angeles, set in 1880 and 

 cut for the third time in June, 1900, produced 1,360 cords, an 

 average of eighty cords per acre. On poor land the yield is only 

 a third to a half the above amount. In a grove near Pasadena 

 set in 1885 and cut for fuel in 1893, there were in July, 1900, 

 some trees two feet in diameter and many over one hundred 

 feet in height." — Bulletin No. 35, Bureau of Forestry. 



Hon. Elwood Cooper has 200 acres of broken land planted 

 to several species of gums. He estimates that he can cut 1,000 

 cords a year indefinitely without detracting from the appearance 

 of his groves or from their usefulness in other ways. Fuel brings 

 $3 to I5 per cord in the local markets. The depletion of the 

 natural forests in many sections of the Southwest has made a fuel 

 famine, which the Eucalyptus has averted. In some places the 

 oily leaves, pressed into bricks with crude oil, have proved an 

 acceptable fuel for cooking. It is as timber that these trees 

 bring the highest prices. Masts, piles, bridge timbers and tele- 

 graph poles, tall, straight, hard and durable — these are in demand 

 at good prices. The best Eucalyptus produces in but twenty 

 years a log equal to an oak that takes 200 years to grow. Blue 

 gum lasts twice as long as redwood and Douglas spruce in the 

 piers of Santa Barbara and other coast cities. 



Eucalyptus oil and eucalyptol, distilled from the fresh leaves, 

 form important by-products when trees are cut down. One 

 ton of leaves yield 500 ounces of oil. This is extensively used in 

 lung and throat troubles, and is proving beneficial in the treat- 

 ment of many other disorders. 



WHITE-PINE PLANTATIONS 



"Between the years 1820 and 1880 was a period of enthu- 

 siastic white-pine planting in New England. Men were then able 

 to foresee the time when the marketable native white pine would 

 be gone, and the rise in prices would make the planted timber of 

 economic importance. ... At the end of this period there 

 were said to be in Massachusetts alone forest plantations of 

 white pine to the extent of 10,000 acres. About 1880 the interest 

 began to decline, largely because it was found possible to bring 

 lumber from the immense supply in the region of the Great 



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