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Title: The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Rogers, Julia Ellen, b. 1866
Subjects: Trees
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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culture in various parts ofNew England, is herewith set down: Average cost of land per acre $4.00 Average cost of raising seedlings and planting . . 4.84Average taxes at 2 per cent, for 40 years . . . .3.20 Total J12.04 Compounding interest on each item for forty years bringsthe total cost per acre to $50.99. An average yield is fortycords of box-board timber worth $4 per cord from each acre.This is worth on the stump $160. Deducting the cost, $50.99, abalance of $109.01 remains as net profit. This is a net annualreturn of $1.15 per acre, with 4 per cent, compound interest 479 Profitable Tree Planting computed for forty years. Twenty years added greatly increasesthe profits. The New England farmer cannot help the Kansas farmer,except to prove that principles are universal in application. For-estry is not alone for the corporation and the state. It is practic-able also on a limited area, and the smaller the woodlot the moresimple the problem and the more perfectly it may be solved. 480
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Copyright, 1905, by Doubleday, Page & Company FRUIT AND AUTUMN LEAVES OF FLOWERING DOGWOOD (Cornus florida) CHAPTER IV: THE WOODLOT THAT PAYS One might think the farmers woodlot unworthy of mentionin a grave conference over the forest problems which now con-front the American people. Yet a recent census report gives630,000,000 acres of land in farms in the United States. Ofthis, 200,000,000 acres is wooded, almost one-third of the whole. From this vast acreage the farmers get cordwood to burnand to sell. They haul logs to the sawmills and get cash orlumber in return. Telegraph and telephone poles, posts, railroadties, nuts, Christmas trees—all these are sold from the woodlot.Beside fuel and fencing, the farmers get timbers for their barns,sheds and corn cribs. Their wagon tongues, axe handles andwhiffletrees are largely made from sticks of seasoned timber,furnished by the woodlots. If strict account of sales were keptand credit were given for things sold and used at home, the wo

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