St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1921-06-04

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yeIoped for the products, and where
the cost of land, trees, and labor eaI
De kept as low as SIG per acre, for
lest planting on poor farm land is a
paying venture In other words,
reforestration is hardly "a paying in
vestment on capitalizat. on OF Ian
and labor in a greater sum than SIG
per acre.
u. S. F. B. No. 1l17 gives the
following exceptional example OF the
profits which may be derived from
the farm .timberlot. And inc dental
lily it may be n0ted that 'about one
third of all the forest land of the
United States is on farms; also tina,
on the farm timberlot the best care
lis possible to make the product
profitable.
"A New York farmers woodland
of lis acres earns him continuous
profit of 81 a day. The annual
growth is 0.65 cord per acre. 1l5
times O.65 equals rs cords (mott
poplar). He cuts an annual crop OF
Is cords.s His profit. is $4.86 per
cord. Is times $4.S6 equals $364.50.
or $3.50 per acre per year.
.sTwo acres OF white pine, near
Keene, N. H., were sold three or four
| years ago, before the war prices, for
$4,000 on the stump. The total
stand was 254 cords, which equals
I170,O00 board feet, or an average OF
| $4,000 feet per acre. The trees
were from SO to IS years old; so the
growth on each acre was about 1000
feet per annum and the gross re-
turns about S12.20 PEI acre lier
annum."
| "White pine, which was planted
On an abandoned sidehill pasture Of
about 3 acres in. New Hampshire "a
years ago, now conta MS about 80 600
board feet of lumber. The total
outlay at the time, counting the
value of the land and labor of plant
ing, was $35. The timber to-day
(1920) is worth on the stump some
thing over 81 500. Assuming land
value of IS per acre, and a Charge
for taxes and oversight for the
period averaging 81 per acre pc,
year, the operation has yielded A ,e=
turn of 5 per cent on the total in
,estment in land. labor, and annual
outlay. and in addition neat sum
equivalent to a yearly profit froo1
the start of over SIS per acre.
This last example is very instruc-
tive because it. shows that the cost
of care for the tim ber must be then
into consideration, and that usually
profitable returns should not be GX-
pected without continuous pGAtacf on
to the forest at some cost for .aani
of oversight. FIRES must be nre.
vented and hogs murt be excluded
A pertinent question faces 4sN Z
| reforestration practicable or nroft.
able anywhere executing IN the farm
TIM berfot, adequately fenced and CIV
en- individual attention by tn:
farmer?
| But consider the evamnle OF the
acres of white pine last above gwen
The returns are not as GOOD as =
first sight they would apnear 70 Ats
The result was actually les than
Iper cent annual interest on the IN
! vestment.
/ Suppoce land is purchased at -
liner acre. in 40 years at 6 nor s"s'1
Interest compounded, it should vie'<
1 s1O.2e. Now. if there is annnail'
outlaid, as assumed in the forester
| figures, "a sum of 81 per wear 90
care, protection end taxes. this sun
at 6 per cent interest comnoNn4 4at
annually should produce in 40 ye' :
s328.10. In short, at the end @
40 years the timber owner must sci
at $338.38 per acre to make 6 ne
cent per annuE, on the investme 4:
However, this leaves out a verv i''
portant item which must be ta1ei
into considerat' on that is the I, =
ment of risk from fire and storm
which may larga1v destroy the q.
\ vestment and make It a loss to t.
owner This is q risk which ha,; u,