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be 12 to 15 ffefit Wgh, and large enough for hoop-poles, wticti at forty dollafS 

 per 1,000, Tvhen cut and placed at the depot for market, amounts to |435.60j 

 with a good deal of small wood fit for suilim^r Use. This calculation ia based 

 on the suppoaition that all the ttees are cut. The trees might be expected 

 to sprout, if cut as they ought to bs. In the winter, and tWo fcoUld be allowed 

 to groW On dach stumj). In five yfears more these would give iis 15,000 poles, 

 Worth as mUch is the first by the pole, ot $600. ITo produce these last no 

 Other cultivation would bfe required except to thin out the stoots the first 

 year, and give them a little trimming afterwards. A similar produce would 

 be continued for several successive crops, oilce in dbout five years. All the 

 trees should be tut at evefy cropping, so that all ihight start on an equalityj 

 for the new ci^op. 



Another calculation would shoW a still greater produce from the acre. If 

 In the first cutting every fifth tree be spared, in every other row, there will 

 be 33 trees left in 33 rows or 1,08& for further growth. These would stand 

 5 feet in the row, and the rows eight feet apart, allowing ample room for the 

 erect groWiilg trees to develope into timber. There would then be 9,801 

 poles. Worth $392.04. The Second crop would not be greatly deteriorated by 

 the trees, if they were properly trimmed up yearly, until their clear bodies 

 Were At least 15 feet high, which might be considered a fair length, though 

 more might be attained. T!he third and fourth cuttings would not be as good 

 lis if all the trees had been cUt down, bUt each crop might be safely estimated 

 ht 12,000 poles, worth $480, each crop. At the end of 20 years the 1,089 

 trees would average ten indhes, for 15 feet in length, and when the value of 

 the timber of such young thrifty wood is taken into consideration, $1.50 a 

 tree would not be a high estimate, giving an additional value of $1,633.50 

 instead of the $1'?4.24 which the Same trees might have made if eultivated 

 and out for toop-poles. 



In all these calculations it is to be remembered that the ground is left full 

 of green roots from which sprouts may be expected) for future crops of poles, 

 and new trees. Other calculations might be made and results equally aston- 

 ishing arrived at. 



For ornament£il purposes few trees excel the hickory in the variety and 

 beauty of its foliage, and in its erect symmetry; cone-formed by lateral 

 branches, it is far more pleasing than the sharp pointed Lombardy poplar, 

 With its long perpeudieular growing limbs. The leaf is a pure deep green, 

 and its thick shade invites to its coolness The tree is almost free from all 

 noxious insectsj except a single variety of the tent worm, easily destroyed/ 

 As an ornamental tree, to last for a period of forty years, it rivals and in the 

 the estimation of many, excels the sugar maple and the elm. If the last 

 gives nothing but shadcj and the other a foretaste of maple sugar, this equal 

 in shade gives a promise in early life, and at last yields its rich nuts as the 

 compensation for the rod of land wbieh it honors with its presence^ This 



