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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry2121915amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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Growing Pine at a Profit l'.\ j. R. Simmons .Issistant State Forester of ^(assaellnsetts A'1X1"" seed, planlcd and grown under average con- the planter are based upon a theory nr upon the experi- ditions, will produce, in fifty years, a tree one foot ence of a state or national government. One of the or more in diameter. Waste land in the state of greatest hindrances to the work of private forest build- Massachusetts, if reforested this year with four-year-old ing has been the lack of any record of individual suc- pine transplants, would yield $376,000,000 worth of lum- cess. It is not, however, necessarv to wait so long. The her in 1965. Deductng from the cost of planting and fiftv-\ear jjeriod was referred to merely because the care, the interest on the investment and the taxes for the maximum profit is gained in that time. Forest stands fifty years, would leave a net profit of $140,000.0(10. This now in existence demonstrate that up to fifty years the calculation assumes that there are 1,000,000 acres of trees grow faster than the interest on the investment. waste land, and that the cost of planting would be $12 per acre, that the land is registered under the new forest taxation law—a law similar to those now in force in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and X'ermont— and that lumber will be worth as much fifty years hence as it is today. Fifty years is a long time to wait for returns on an investment; especially so when the expected results of The turning point comes with the retarded growth of the ;)ine. Looking back a (teriod of years it is found that there was as much interest in forest planting in the Eastern states between 1820 and 1880 as there is today, with the result that large plantations were made by private indi- \iduals and some few by corporations. Seedlings were usuallv dug up from fields surrounding old seed pines
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FORTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD WHITIC PINE PLANTATION This picture was taken after the stand had been properly thinned according to the most approved forestry methods and is a striking illustration of what might be accomplished witli much of the non-agricultural land in Massachusetts if it were planted with white pine and protected from fire, insects and disease. The stand is near South Lancaster, Mass., and is owned by Mr. Harold Parker. 1043

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