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of income from the three fourths to be thinned out is 

 as follows : 



Seven hundred fence-posts, worth flOO 



Cord wood, worth 100 



Expense preparing and marketing 100 



Profits $100, equal to $20 each year, and better 

 than barley crops, with all the value left, on the 

 ground. At the end of fifty years the two hundred 

 and fifty trees left standing would be worth $10,000, 

 and equivalent to one hundred per cent, profit on the 

 investment, allowing the land to be worth $100 per 

 acre, and interest compounded at ten per cent, per 

 year. M. Trottier's estimate gives as much in half 

 the number of years. 



The estimate of profit on one acre of White Ash, in 

 the "Western States, at the end of twelve years, is 

 $600. 



The measurement of trees in Springfield, Ohio, 

 twenty years' growth, one foot above the ground : 

 Larch, 10} inches ; Birch, lOJ ; Elm, 14J ; Spruce, 

 14 ; Burr Oak, 15. They are planting in the Prairie 

 States one hundred and fifty million trees annually, 

 occupying about two hundred thousand acres, and 

 equal to about one thirty -fifth of the destruction 

 throughout the entire country. 



Humboldt, the great philosopher, said : " Men, in 

 all climates, seem to bring upon future generations 

 two calamities at once — a want of fuel and a scarcity 

 of water." 



A blessing has been pronounced upon the man who 

 would make two blades of grass grow in place of one. 

 How much more is this due to the man who plants a 

 tree where nothing grew before. 



