New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-13
PROFIT IN RAISING FOREST TREES.
lost OF IT FOR THE NEXT GENERATIoN-BlG

MOST OF IT FOR THE NEXT GENERATIoN-BiG
PRICES FOR WALNUT AND CHERRY
a good many people who would like to live on farms
Of their in the summer months are deferred run
purchasing forty or eighty acres by the fact that there
TO be way Of getting any Interest out OF tc
capital invested. good deal has been said recently
about the abandoned farms OF NewEngland and INC
low prices at which they have been and are offered
for sale have attracted many longing eyes ron uIe
city's hot shops and close counting rooms
III could any way OF making even the interest
out OF one" sod New York commission merchant uie
other day. I'd buy a ifty-acre farm, repair the old
house on 1t or build plain one and turn my lannn
loose there every summer. There would be no need
then Of keeping the children we'll dressed one has TO
do even in II country hotel boarding house. aud no
bills to pay except for food and servant or two Blu
the very fact that these farms cheap Is due en-
tirey to the poor quality OF tire soil II farmers couIu
make wheat and oats and stock pay well on these lands
they would not abandon them. have no time to farm,
any way and TO employ others to do 1t for would DO
throwing away money II the soil was rich as the
Mississippi bottoms"
Now what this man wants" said enthusi-
astlc student Of forestry, " is knowledge Of some
crop which, planted will take Of itself for
hundred years pay HIM some interest on his money
while ii Is coming to maturity If he gets his land cheap
to Begin with and at the end of forty years be worth
to be found in forest trees
Forest trees - exclaims the New Yorker. Do y0l
take me for Il Mehuseahl Before fifty years ARE
will be engaged in other pursuits than money
making, theologians tell me.'
You don't need TO wait fifty years. IS the answer
Of the forestry enthusiast. They don't wait that
long ont West, where forestry is being carried
to some extent already. There a plants his
prairie wood lot with various kinds OF trees, EOme
Of them quick growing varieties, Others Of the slower
sort lie plants them close together, for several
One reason Is that the trees may force their
way slyward before spreading out. Forestr are
mastlike in their proportions generally. Each seeks
to spread It's foliage In the sunlight above its fellow.
Plant the same kind of tree in an open field and 1t
spreads its branches out from the first. sunlight Is
all around 1t and there IS No reason FOR exertlon
Thl, tree IS more symmetrical, the whole. but
not nearly 50 valuable for timber the long, bare
trunk Of the fOresttrcc.
Another for planting them close together is
that they may Lc thnned out with profit as they
grow In a few years the owner begins to cut out
his small tres, and sell them, 10 be made up into
bnrre hoops. As they grow larger, they are III
demand for hop poles Larger still, they make fence
posts and are wanted for wood pulp In the paper mills
and thea the remainder are far enough apart to be
let alone to grow into stout timber This crop Of
small stuf, for hoop. poles etc, does not cease at
any time 1t keeps coming up, year after year, among
the bigger trees.
The secret IS t0 make the right choice Of trees.
Probably the most valuable sorts arc black walnut,
Wild red cherry and white ash There Will always
DE a demand for thee woods In the manufactures and
the supply grows steadily less. The other day
man bought a tract Of forest hnd In one OF tile
southern state, and sold biz "cured' walnut
tree on Il for almost half what he paid for the place
Oc hundred dollars IS not unusual price at present
for n big blackwau tree OF the ordinary variety
I'm paris Of Iuinoi, the early settlers cut up black
walnut for fcnceralls. some years afterward when
,h. rail, had rOtlcd away. the farmers we're grhbenlg
M uie stump, and selling the gnarlcd roots at "a
nord some profit \ farmer in this or ncghoorlng
State WHO la, many vd-cheTy trees on his hhd
need not worry much over gislu and root crops
peulatOr, viii come ont from this cty and pay well
for the privilege Of cutting his trees Tor MIN ana
carrying them away. - oo ,ho, aftv
20 that IL take, no argument to prove that MY
icres Of such wood Is a fortune in itself vlual 70
lie Insurance policy for the owners children anu
.ourcc OF ,tlni pleasure some prOn ana .ue On
uense Ia him While he lives. IL can be rsiLea on
ion A. any time after the begin 70 approach ma
turt,y Hickory and Dutternut are bOth VarnUN
woods and the nuts from these trees are always sAaoie
The demand for rsimas tree, also grows yearly
Canadian forests are now beng drawn on lot new
Nork~ supply ,, ,o l.,
" On George NaHderbilts newly purchased pisce IN
%,l Carolina forestry l. gOiuc ~ b" chfri'd on III
large and mtclu gent He possesses an adNMttse
t,,rt covered With trees already, but he proposes 10
how that contrary to the accepted dea Of tNatlhe
woodland il Is not necessary, In order 10 make money
,.,, az IL 4, destroy ne forest