NEW METHOD OF REARING OAK. 



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be planted with 3000 oaks five years old. This cal- 

 culation, too, is made in round numbers, which ren- 

 ders the difference of the ratio considerably less 

 than it would be by reckoning the fraction. 



By adopting certain modifications in the manner 

 of planting the acorns, the expense of the process 

 may be rendered still lower than that stated above. 

 Instead of trenching the patches, and making them 

 tw^o feet square, they may be only dug so deep as is 

 practicable on account of stones, and their area re- 

 duced to a square foot, or one fourth part of the 

 dimensions which have been formerly recommended. 

 The cost will thus be reduced in the ratio of five or 

 six to one, and still the system will be attended 

 with far greater success than can be attained by 

 pursuing the method of which w^e have so often 

 had occasion to speak in terms of disapprobation. 

 Such modifications, however, will deprive the sys- 

 tem of many of its advantages, and ten times the 

 money that they save in the outset will be ultimate- 

 ly lost. 



