FOBEST PLANTING IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. 27 



Table 5.-— Yield and value of European larch (Larix europaea). 



Age. 



Loca- 

 tion. 



Yrs.\ 

 18; Iowa. 



27 

 28 

 28 

 28 

 28 

 31 

 33 

 33 

 35 

 35 

 35 

 35 

 35 

 35 

 37 

 39 

 . 39 



40 

 41 

 41 



50 



60 



2 28 



...do.. 

 ...do.. 



Conn. 



Iowa. 

 ...do.. 

 ...do.. 



Conn. 



Mass . 

 ...do.. 

 ...do.. 



Iowa. 

 ...do.. 

 ...do.. 

 ...do.. 

 ...do.. 



111.... 



Iowa. 



...do.. 

 ...do.. 

 ...do.. 



Mass. 

 ...do.. 

 Iowa. 



Soil. 



Sandy loam 



Black loam 



do 



Loam 



Black loam 



do 



Clay loam 



Loam 



do 



White sand 



do 



Black loam 



do 



do 



Clay loam 



Black loam 



do 



Black sandy 



loam. 



Black loam 



do 



Black sandy 



loam. 



White sand 



Clay loam 



Black loam 



Ft. 

 4x4 

 4 x4 

 3ix6 

 4 x4 

 10 xl2 

 8 x8 

 4 x5 

 4 x6 



(?) 

 4 x4 

 4 x4 

 8 x8 

 7£x7-! 

 4 x6 



3 x7 

 4x4 



(?) 

 3^x3. 



4 x4 

 4x4 

 8 x8 



6 x6 



6 x6 



923 

 506 

 1,107 

 L, 120 

 189 

 487 

 526 

 380 

 212 

 527 

 1,324 

 221 

 192 

 498 

 475 

 330 

 571 

 522 



398 

 299 

 292 



316 



155 



1,000 



Ins. 

 4.9 

 7.2 

 3.7 

 4.3 

 9.2 

 7.6 

 7.6 

 6.4 

 6.5 

 6.6 

 4.5 

 10.0 

 11.2 

 7.4 

 7.4 

 8.9 

 7.7 

 7.0 



8.3 



7.3 

 9.7 

 10.6 



Yield per acre. 



No. 



■rt J 00 



-32 



No. 

 336 



299 



"no 



132 

 92 

 429 

 240 

 32 

 140 

 216 

 170 

 155 

 305 

 308 

 330 

 462 

 269 



193 

 429 

 435 



71 

 162 

 340 



■dft 



a-- 



C3 O 



bo 

 <S ffl., 



QJ O 



Cords. 



13.73 



11.74 



15.56 



19.69 



1.89 



10.41 



10.48 



9.35 



4.94 



12.48 



20.97 



3.97 



3.00 



10.33 



10.72 



6.26 



12.10 



12.91 



7.44 

 10.48 

 6.51 



6.71 

 2.96 

 5.81 



365.00 

 60.00 

 30.00 

 35.00 

 65.00 

 65.00 

 60.00 

 14.00 

 15.00 

 15.00 

 15.00 

 50.00 



Ot3 



o © 

 c3 ca 



50.00133. 

 60.00163. 



25.00 

 50.00 

 80.00 

 60.00 



30.00 

 30.00 

 40. 00 



10.00 

 10.00 

 65.00 



160. 78 

 147. 12 

 137.28 



84.36 

 117. 58 

 115.32 



2a 





212. 04 

 226. 03 

 223. 01 



103. 61 

 110.06 

 189. 92 



Profit ( + ) or 



loss (— ) per 



acre. 



+ 2. 



- 61. 

 -175. 



- 51. 



+ 32. 

 + 78. 

 + 117. 

 -115. 

 + 62. 



- 1. 

 + 40. 

 + 71. 



- 5. 

 + 163. 

 + 58. 



- 58. 



- 84. 



37- 

 52- 

 36,- 

 04 + 



+ 51.26 



+ 78.91 



+ 85.73 



+ 19.25 



- 7.52 



+ "4.60 



52.15 



.06 



1.43 



4.09 



1.20 



.75 



1.58 



2.14 



2.09 



1.03 



.02 



.67 



1.18 



.09 



4.35 



+ 1.58 

 + 1.09 



+ ' .17 

 - .05 

 + 1.74 



1 In addition to the poles and posts shown in preceding columns. 



2 Single row reckoned as 25 feet wide by 1,742 feet long = 1 acre. 



SCOTCH PINE (Pinus sylvestris Linn.). 



Scotch pine will grow in all sections of the eastern United States, 

 and is well adapted for sandy soils too poor for agriculture or even 

 for the growth of white pine. The tree seems to do equally well on 

 the poor, sandy, Norway pine lands of Michigan and on old worn- 

 out lands of New England. For the first 15 or 20 years Scotch pine 

 makes very rapid height growth, often from 20 to 30 inches a year. 



Because of its hardiness and freedom from disease, it is to be 

 regretted that the Scotch pine already planted consists largely of a 

 variety from central Germany, the trees of which, when about 20 

 years old, become crooked, irregular, ragged, and of very poor tim- 

 ber form, yielding only one or two logs per tree. In Europe, on the 

 other hand, trees grown from seed collected in the Scotch pine 

 forests of the Baltic provinces of Russia, ordinarily called the Riga 

 variety, have straight, cylindrical, well-developed trunks, and yield 

 wood of a higher quality than the Scotch pine of central Germany. 

 Unless, therefore, the Riga variety can be secured, the planting of 

 Scotch pine is not recommended. 



