Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-04-08
FORESTRY rOR VERMONT.

FORESTRY FOR VERMONT.
Vermont now has the expert leader
| ship in scientific forestry for which
she has for some time been working
az we'll as waiting. Professor A. Il.
Halves arrived Friday from New
Haven, Conn, TO take formal charge
| as State forester and Professor Jones.
| who. as botanist OF the Experiment
Station. organized and held the direc-
| torship of the state nursery up to the
present time. will now transfer all re-
sponsibility to Professor Hawes.
A bulletin will be ready for distri-
button from the experiment station in
a few days containing a detailed state
ment as to the Vermont forestry prob
lens and the steps to be taken to So
| cure seedlings from the State nursery
| and advice from the state forester.
The two trees shown by longest cX-
periencc to have value for forest
planting are the white pine and Nor
| way spruce. AS showing the large
possibilities from representation with
these trees in Vermont we are in
debted to Professor Jones for the OPP
portunity to print extracts from two
letters recently received by him. Tho
| first is from s. D. Hobson of Island
Pond showing the possible growth OF
white pine. Mr.. Hobson sayss
in our correspondence last spring
I told you Of having planted white
pine seed in 1915 and said that some
time I would write up the result.
II sent men n few days ago and cut
the best tree OF that planting. It
was fourteen inches in diameter at
| the ground and showed thirty-two an
nual rings in the wood 1t was 70
inches in d!a meter up twelve feet. and
showed twenty-five rings there, show
ing that It grew twelve feet in height
In seven years. At twenty -four feet
in height It was sever. inches in diam
eter and showed fifteen rings or that
1t took seventeen years to reach q
height OF twenty-four feet.
"As stated above the diameter at
twelve feet was twelve inches a,
using the Bangor scale rule gives ~
feet in the butt log and % feet in the
top long--l11 feet. have taken the
| two logs to n saw mill and will some
| time give you the exact amount sawed
out.
81 have found by actual measure
ment that If this tree had continued
to grow as in the past. it would have
| Il i, ba,
ten years on the "a feet. not to add
anything for growth in top"
The second statement Is from Hon.
| George Aitken. manager of the BILL
ings farm at Woodstock who has
| been planting pine, spruce, larch and
| other trees on that estate for many
years In order to test the CONNER
cial value OF the Norway spruce Mr..
Aitken recently arranged to supply
some OF the logs to the International
Paper company for trial and the fol-
| lowing statement is based on the re-
| suits of this trial
Four average trees of Norway
| spruce, SO years old, made one cord
| of four foot wood as cut for pulp.
OF these trees No. I, - feet high, ~
inches at butt, cut a log 46ia feet long,
| 6 inches at top; tree No. 2, 81 feet
high. Is inches at butt cut a log 47.l
feet long. inches at the top; tree
No. 3, 63 feet high, IA inches at butt.
cut n log 40 feet long, C inches at the
| top; tree No. 4, 81 feet high, l6 inches
at butt cut a log 30 feet long, )
inches at the top,
Mr.. Aitken in commenting upon the
says that the land on which these
| trees were grown is poor sandy hill
side. not fit for cultivation. Placing
Its original value at $500 per acre
| the compound interest on this sum for
20 years would amount to sG4.5O; To-
cal taxes compounded would be $3.50.
Deductng these amounts from the
selling value Of an acre OF such pulp
wood there would remain gain of
over 81 900. II these trees were cut
for lumber the selling price would be
much more" Mr.. Athens figures do
not include the cost of planting and
OF course are based only on the few
trees which he has cut Making every
allowance, however, these results
serve to illustrate in a striking way
the significance OF forestry for Yer
gun.