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wood, fence-posts and railroad sleepers, to the value of thousands of dollars, could 
be cut to-day, to the great advantage of the remaining trees. The profit of such an 
operation is apparent, especially when we consider that the land used for these plan- 
tations did not cost more than ten dollars an acre, and probably not half that 
amount.” 
SIBERIAN ARBORVIT^E. 
“The second experiment was made by Mr. J. S. Fay, a brother of Mr. Fay of 
Essex County, on his estate at Wood’s Holl, in Barnstable County, on the extreme 
southwestern point of Cape Cod. A tract of lancJ one hundred and twenty-five 
acres in extent, which is now densely covered with Mr. Fay’s plantations, was in 
1853, seemingly as little fitted for the purpose of tree culture as can well be imag- 
ined. It was fully exposed to the cold northwest winds of winter sweeping across 
Buzzard’s Bay, and to no less baneful southwest winds of summer, which came from 
the Atlantic loaded with saline moisture.” 
