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GROWING GOLD. 



woods and forest department, it follows that 

 the most advantageous system is to clear and 

 replant the land. There is a notion amongst 

 those who have no practical knowledge, and 

 among certain pretenders to it, that young 

 trees will not grow well upon old woodlands : 

 the examination of almost any land occupied 

 by ancient trees will prove this to be erroneous. 



The losses owners submit to by allowing 

 old trees to stand that have ceased to grow, 

 is at least four fold ; their decay, the interest 

 and compound interest of the sum to be 

 realized by the sale of them, and the growth 

 of those which might be planted on the land ; 

 at the expiration of twenty years, the accu- 

 mulation of property, by such arrangements, 

 would be important. On every estate there 

 should be a succession of timber, some planted 

 and some of a marketable size, the quantity 

 according to the size of the estate. Thus, the 

 annual home consumption might be provided 

 for, and the surplus sold. To establish this 

 system with the least injury to the existing 



