Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-30
PROFIT IN TREE FARMING

Unused lands in any part of the
United States can be made to produce
from Sc to $40 an acre, according to
recent forestry report by the govern
ment.
In the report the interests of the
country in general are considered, and
in this light tree growers are advised
to keep their trees uncut until they are
of mature size plantations of red
cedar twenty-five years old" says one
report "haVe netted $20050 an acre.
European larCh, used for telephone or
fence posts, will net from 5000 to 1925
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 that
in ten or fifteen years his tree crop
will reach a salable value the figures
of the national forest service are a bit
out of reach. Yet to that individual
hope is offered in the announcement
that there are uses and even good
prices paid for trees which range from
the tender age of six years up and
that the demand for these slender
striplings is growing greater each
year.
An example of this lies in the match
industry alone. This line of manufac-
ture has nearly all been merged into
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, and
after clearing the tract moves on to its
next forest. In the manufacture of
barrel slaves and hoops trees of al
most any tough, flexible wood are used
from the ages of four to fifteen years,
while the straight young trees of ten
years will make salable flag or tent
poles.
Young alders, poplars and willows
of 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
can be used in the manufacture of
wood alcohol, for which there is an
enormously increasing demand all over
the country Furniture manufacturers,
always on the lookout for wood with a
fine grain, will take birch, cherry, wal
nut. etc, not large enough to be used
in making parts of house furnishings
for use as veneer Never before in
the history of the United States has
so much wood been used in the manu-
facture of ornaments and toys as is
now being used for that purpose, and
thousands OF leeI u spruce dIe 6lll-
plOyed by manufacturers of sleighs
and wagons.
In some parts of New York and
Pennsylvania large quantities of small
timber are used in wood distillation
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 wood
pulp products are manufactured. Then
again, many small trees are bought for
the manufacture of toothpicks, while
in the mining country of Pennsylvania
and other coal-prOduCing states thou
sands of Sprays are purchased to
serve their peculiar purpose. This is
to check the speed of the mine carts
as they go rapidly down the steep
grade of the mines by being thrown
beenath the wheels.
These are only few of the hun
dreds of uses to which young timber
may be put if it is near enough to
market to be sold.
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