Putnam patriot., 1909-09-24
PROFIT IN TREE FARMING.
c,vernn,ers Advice Which Will HeIp
 Owners of Forest Lands.


 ruussd lands in any part of the rnited states can be made to produce s-nra ss 10 S2o au acre. according to recent forestry report hy the govern r1ent-
 Tn the report the interests of the .,,ntrv ln general are considered. and "a this light tree growers are advised fo keep their trees uncut until they are of nature size. Plantations of red .asar twenty-five years old. says one -sTart have netted Saao54 an acre. r,nroneau larch. used for telephone or <a,re hosts. will net from s2ou 10 S.,25 .r acre at the age of twenty-five years. yrhite pine at the ripe age of forty vssrs will produce S30o an acre as un- c,t timber" while other woods more ,han twenty years of age bring prices thai compare favorabiy with these.
 Rut to the man who is expecting that i, ten or fifteen years his tree cron rrtll reach a salable value the figures If inc national forest service are bit ont of reach. Yet to that individual bone is offered in the announcement ,,at there are uses and even good ,-sees paid for trees which range from ,ha tender age of six years up and ,hst the demand for these slender s.riolinss is growing greater each year.
 An example of this lies in the match industry alone. This line of manufac- .pre has nearly all been merged into ereat trust which annually purchases .. a cood figure thousands of acres of white pine trees anywhere from Maine to california. 1t buys these as uncut .;,,har in size from six inches up and af,er clearing the tract moves on to Its next forest In the manufacture ol barrel slaves and hoops trees Of almost any .ourh. flexible wood are used from tho ages of four to fifteen years. while any straight young trees of ten years will make saiable flag or tent poles.
 Young alders. poplars and willows n, from ten to fifteen years serve man kind in the manufacture of gunpowder while the prolific beech and maple from six inches in diameter upward cap be used in the manufacture oi wood alcohol. for which there is al enormously increasing demand all ovei the country. Furniture manufacturers always on the outlook for wood witt fine grain. will take birch, cherry walnut. etc. not large enough to Dc nsea in making parts of house furnish ,ncs for use as veneer Never before fn the history of the United States has sa much wood been used in the manu facture of ornaments and toys as is now being used for that purpose. and thousands of feet of spruce are em ploved by manufacturers of sleighs ane wagons.
 Tn some parts of New York ano Pennsylvania large quantities of small timber are used in wood distillatior 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 tht pulp mills where paper and other wooo pulp products are manufactured. Then again. many small trees are bought 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 throwi beneath the wheels.
 These are only few of the hundreds of uses to which young timber may bs put if 1t is near enough to market 10 he sold