The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-09-22
BRUNSWICK'S PINES.
MAINE TOWNS SUCCESSFUL EXPERT
MENT IN RAISING TREES

BaFreD Plains Made to Yield /. Good
Income by Public Spirited Citizens.
Thousand. of Trees Have Been Set
Out and Sold.
Brunswick. Me-. is probably the oaiy
town In the United States engaged in
practical demonstration on a lag
scale of the possibilities OF municipal
forestry. says the Boston Globe II is
planting and raising pine trees for the
good Of the community in general ami
as an example to farmers and othe.
landowners in the vicinity Its nurS-
cry of pines contains about 10000 seed
Hngs in iourishing condition. and it
has already set out ON wild land about
GO,OCO trees.
The towns activity in this direction
is due to the influence Of Austin Carey,
one of Americas foremost foresters,
who Is a graduate of BowdOin college
and resident Of Brunswick In this
he was seconded by a few farseeinS
citizens, the most active in the venture
being DR.. F. n. Whittier Of Bowdoin
college. r. w. Eaton. a mill manager,
and Leslie A. Lee, professor In geology
at BowdOin.
These gentlemen In town meeting
presented to the voters the plan Of Mr..
Carey. They mentioned the steady ad-
vance in the price Of pine lumber and
the constant decrease in the natural
supply and claimed that should Bruins
wick take up the culture Of pine trees
it could not fail in the process Of time
to secure a considerable financial re-
turn from its investment and labors. to
say nothing Of the beneficial example 1t
would set its citizens and other towns
In the state.
They also represented the towns spe-
cial facilities for raising pines on the
town land or common known as the
plains. Here the town owns LOCO acres
Of wild land. presented to 1t many
years ago by the owners Of the Pejep-
scot grant, on which the town was
built The soil is sandy and adapted
only to the growing Of pines or of
blueberries.
Parts Of the plains are covered with
II SIOwOh VI OIuCUCAAy
from which not less than 5000 worth
Of berries are gathered each year by
the residents and persons from other
GOWNS. Other parts, however. formerly
covered with heavy pine growth. have
become barren. Mr.. Carey's plan was
to raise young trees and set them out
on these barren spots between existing
areas Of pine. The voters listened and
voted, though not without doubt as to
the wisdom Of their course. to appropri-
ate 500 to begin the work A commit
tee was appointed to carry out the
plan.
The white pine was selected for ex-
ploitation, though the pitch pine and
the Norway pine are also found in
Brunswick and thrive there quite as
well as the white pine. The white pine
is commercially more valuable than
either Of the others and Is rapid
grower. A majority of the fine trees at
Bowdoin-"those tall, academic pines"
Of Hawthorne-areo Of this variety
TIE spot selected for starting the mu-
nicipal nursery was about two miles
south OF the town on the farm of D. G.
burlington. who was appointed custo-
dian Of the nursery Though without IT,
tle). and q fire warden as well, to guard
the young trees against their worst en-
envy.
The first years work at the nursery
was largely transplanting seedlings
found In their natural state in old pine
growths. fields and other places. A con-
siderable numberScame from the rail-
road embankments in the town. width
er the wind had blown the seed from
the fine old pines Of Bowt,oin and near
there Some Of the young gentlemen of
the college. taking a sentimental inter-
est in the work, contributed their labor
to tr2nsplanting the seedlings, and sew
eral thousand were placed in the beds
through their efforts.
The cost of fire protection has been
estimated at cents an acre annually.
The first cost Of stocking an acre with
the seedlings is about So At the end
Of fifty years, when the trees will be
ready for numbering, their cost per
acre viii have been but $500. The
market value of lumber that each acre
may reasonably be expected to yield
even at such prices as now prevail viii
be about SO Mr.. Carey has estimated
that at the smallest ratio Of Increase
The trees that will have been planted
when ready for market will yield So
coo worth of lumber, while the growth
left viii continue TO produce steady
annual yield. II is thus seen that i'll
time the barren Brunswick plains with
care can be made 20 bring the town d
very pretty income.
The public spirited citizens who have
devoted their time to the towns exper-
imenJ in forestry are much gratified
ct their success thus far with the white
pines and contemplate extending their
planting to embrace other trees Al