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Show Investment Cost of land per acre (1st yr.) $22.00 Cost, seedlings per acre (1st yr.) .80 Cost of transplanting per acre (1st year) 3.20 Coct of cutting back per acre (third year) 2.50 Superintendents, implements, fire guards, etc., at 35 cts. per acre per year 3.96 Cutting and marking per acre 20.00 $52.46 Returns. Value of .posts per acre $315.21 Value of firewood per acre 12.00 Total gross returns per acre $327.21 The Yaggy plantation is cut by the -strip system. A total of 62J4 acres is cut annually, but the strips arc so distributed throughout the plantation that the openings arc not conspicuous. The farm contains also 300 acres of apple trees, but catalpa is counted the surer crop. A year ago the late freeze almost completely destroyed the apple ap-ple crop, and to offset its loss a double .portion of catalpa was harvested. While it is true that no other forest tree except eucalyptus has been grown in large plantations with so great profit as catalpa, it is equally true that, with the exception of cotton-wood cotton-wood and black locust, none other has been the source of so great disappointment. dis-appointment. Oatalpa can be grown profitably only with a beforehand knowledge of the habits of the tree, and a care that the site and the market mar-ket arc -favorable; after that there should be the exercise of as good management and as strict attention to detail as would be required to run any other factory and storehouse com-iWned. com-iWned. That is the practice of forestry. |