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Planting s: 



Clearing areas preparatory to planting, . $4 00 per acre. 

 Transplanting seedlings from nursery to 



field 5 20 per 1,000 trees. 



Transplanting seedlings from nursery to 



field, . . . . . . 5 50 per acre (6 by 6 feet planting) , 



Improvement thinnings: 



Among planted trees, .... 

 In original timber stands, 



Fire protection: 



Clearing marginal fire guard 40 feet wide, . 



Maintaining marginal fire guard, 



Clearing and grading forest roads 15 feet 



wide 



Maintaining forest roads, 



Maintaining fire patrol, .... 



6 00 per acre. 

 20 00 per acre. 



150 00 per mile. 

 27 00 per mile per year. 



120 00 per mile. 



8 00 per mile per year. 

 95 00 per year. 



Reforestation. Summary of Costs (Wage Rate, $1.75 per Eight- 

 hour Day). 



The foregoing table shows that it costs $14.92 per 1,000 trees, or 

 $18.98 per acre (1,390 trees per acre), to raise the trees from seed, 

 prepare, plant and protect the lands planted through the time of the 

 final planting in the field; that it costs $0.22 and $0.31 per year 

 respectively to maintain efficient fire protection; that it costs $4.30 

 and $6 respectively for an improvement thinning, which will prob- 

 ably have to be made twice during the first ten years, after which 

 time the trees should care for themselves. 



Yours very truly, 



HENRY H. SPRAGUE, 



Chairman. 



E. R. B. ALLARDICE, superintendent in charge Wachusett depart- 

 ment; DEXTER BRACKETT, chief engineer of water works. 



