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The operation of planting is anise simple and uae 
and efficiency is dependent as silica else, upon good or- 
ganization. A planting crew may be as small as two men in 
and the other to follow with the trees which he plants just as one 
would plant a tomato or a cabbage plant, except that no water is 
use It is necessary, ever, to kee e roots of coniferous 
trees moist because even the slightest amount of drying will 
cause the resin in the s to hard nd discount the chances 
shading out the lower branches and making it possible for clear 
logs to be produc 
The initial cost a establishing a plantation should not exceed 
$15.00 she acre, including the cost of the land, if good interest 
is to be expected. . 
Where itis is possible to thin out a plantation at a profit such as 
might be the case in a stand of black locust where small fence 
take care of the cost of the operation and may even help to 
the taxes. Bucket stock may be secured from a pine plantation 
in as short a time as Slee years and a good quality of box 
lumber will result in forty yea: 
Forest planting will ea never be widely practised on 
private land in this country until a more equitable system of 
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the one recommended by Professor F. R. Fairchild, of Yale, 
based upon taxing the yield at the time of cutting, is the soundest 
system. Public sentiment has a long course of development 
ahead of it before private owners will do any great amount of 
