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feet apart, containing 12,000 trees, at twelve years 

 were 8 inches in diameter and 35 feet high, — the 

 previous thinning paying all expenses of planting and 

 cultivation. Ten feet of the bodies of these trees 

 were worth, for making bent stuff, &c., 40 cents each, 

 and the remaining top 10 cents, — making a total of 

 6000 dollars as the profits of 10 acres in twelve 

 years, or a yearly profit of 50 dollars per acre for 

 each year's growth. Mr Everett is said to have 

 sold 23 acres of black walnut, of twenty-three years' 

 growth, for 27,000 dollars, or 50 dollars per acre for 

 each year's growth. By the way, it is well to re- 

 member that ash will grow where many trees will 

 not." In this country, on the contrary, ash timber is 

 most difficult to grow profitably to large size. 



" But the great point noticeable is that the money 

 is secured, or rather secures itself, without labour 

 after the first ten years. Any plantation, men of ex- 

 perience say, in which the trees are 6 feet high, and 

 the ground so shaded that weeds and grasses cannot 

 grow, needs no more care till the time comes to thin 

 it for posts." 



