Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17
PROFIT IN TREE FARMING.
Government Advice Which Will He'll
Owners Of Forest Lands.

Government Advice Which Will He'll
Owners Of Forest Lands.
Unused lands in any part of the
United States can be made to produce
from SO TO 500 an acre, according to
recent forestry report by the govern
ment.
In the report the interests of tn,
country in general are considered. ano
in this light tree growers are advised
to keep their trees uncut until they are
of mature size. "Plantations of rec
cedar twenty-five years old" says one
report, have netted S20054 an acre
European larch, used for telephone OF
fence posts, will net from 5000 to 500
an acre at the age Of twenty-five years
White pine at the ripe age of forty
years will produce $500 an acre as un
cut TIMBER" while other woods more
than twenty years of age bring prices
that compare favorably with these.
But to the man who is expecting thai
in ten or fifteen years his tree croI
will reach a salable value the figures
of the national forest service are Bit
out of reach. Yet to that individual
hope is offered in the announcement
that there are uses and even gooC
prices paid for trees which range from
the tender age of six years up an0
that the demand for these slender
striplings is growing greater each year
An example of this lies in the mattel
industry alone. This line of manufac
ture has nearly all been merged into s
great trust which annually purchases
at a good figure thousands of acres OF
white pine trees anywhere from Maine
to California. 1t buys these as uncut
timber in size from six inches up ana
after clearing the tract moves on to its
next forest. In the manufacture OF
barrel slaves and hoops trees of almost
any tough. flexible wood are used from
the ages of four to fifteen years, while
any straight young trees of ten years
will make salable flag or tent poles.
Young alders, popars and willows
of from ten to fifteen years serve man
kind i'm the manufacture of gunpOwder
while the prolific beech and maple
from six inches in diameter upward
can be used in the manufacture o.
wood alcohol. for which there is al
enormously increasing demand all Over
the country Furniture manufacturers
always on the outlook for wood Will
fine grain. will take birch, cherry
walnut. etc. not large enough to be
used in making parts of house furnish
ingS for use as veneer. Never befOr,
i'm the history of the United States has
so much wood been used in the manu-
facture of ornaments and toys as il
now being used for that purpose. anC
thousands of feet of spruce are en-
ployed Ivy manufacturers of slcighs anC
wagons
In some parts of New York anC
Pennsylvania large quantities of small
timber are used in wood diStillatioI
plants for the production of acid. while
all over the country small timber is
used for the manufacture of charcoal
Small sizes of timber. particularly the
spruce of New England. is used in the
pulp mills where paper and other Woo
pulp products are manufactured. Then
again. many small trees are bouGhl
for the manufacture of toothpicks
while in the mining country of Penn
sylvania and other coal producing
states thousands of "sprags" are pur
chased to serve their peculiar purpose
This is to check the speed of the mule
carts as they go rapidly down the steer
grade of the mines by being throw
beneath the wheels.
These are only few of the hundreds
of uses to which young timber may be
put if it is near enough to a marker
to be sold