42 FOREST TREES. 
Diameter. Height. 
European Larch - 8to12inches. 30 feet. 
Black or Am. Larch 4“ 6 “ 25 
White Ash - - 3B” 5 & 16 « 
Silver Maple - - 4“ 6 « 25 « 
Sugar Maple - = 2 a 12° 
Black Walnut - 26 4 8 14 
Chestnut - - a gt ae 16 “ 
White Elm - - yee, THE 16 “ 
Scotch Elm - = O& 16 « 
European Birch - ge Gt 14“ 
European Beech - 28 4 4 10 * 
White Pine - - 6“10 « 35 
Norway Spruce--* - 5“ 8 & 20 « 
Scotch Pine - - Le 3 20 “ 
Austrian Pine - - 6“ 7 * 16 
Balsam Fir - - a 16“ 
The above is not a solitary instance of the rapid 
growth of the Larch inthe West. We may therefore 
assume that it can be grown in twelve years to such 
size that each tree will furnish two fence posts. 
Allowing four hundred trees to remain to become of 
larger size, and deducting three hundred for those 
worthless or indifferent, two thousand trees might be 
cut from an acre, affording 4,000 posts, which, valued. 
at only twenty cents each, would be worth eight 
hundred dollars. The upper part of the trees might 
be used for rails to nail on the fence posts, or for 
other purposes. The estimate of twenty cents each 
for the posts is much below what they would be 
worth in many parts of the country at the present 
