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Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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f birch, for peg-wood, and of poplar, for paper-pulp, sell at $20 peracre; and it is estimated that the forests in the county average in value $50 peracre. In Vermont, in Lamoille County, about half the forest lands produce softtimber, and these lands sell at from $5 to $20 per acre, according to locationand value of soil. The other half is made up of hard - wood varieties, of whichthe most valuable is the sugar-maple; and maple - orchards sell at $100 to$200 per acre. In Massachusetts, in Bristol County, the best growths of pineare worth $200 per acre. In a few instances old fields have been set out withpine timber, and in most cases the investment has proved judicious. In Con-necticut, in Windsor County, the heaviest forests have all been cut down, andmost of the forest area is too rocky and sterile to cultivate; but upon about one-fourth of the forest area pines and chestnuts grow so rapidly that in twenty orthirty years they will make boards twelve to eighteen inches wide. Land on
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RAFTS IN THE DELLS.See Note 17. LUMBER AND OTHER FOREST PRODUCTS. 261 which timber is growing increases in market value every year. In LitchfieldCounty iron furnaces have been in operation more than a century, and to supplythem with charcoal the hills have been repeatedly stripped of their coverings;but after the trees have been cut down, most kinds sprout vigorously fromthe stump, and others spring up from the seed, so that if cattle are excluded theforest is soon renewed. Sprout-land, kept for wood, has proved remunerative,yielding every twenty-five years twenty-five cords per acre, worth $2 a cord,standing. These data evince that in the New England States there iseven now ample opportunity for the remunerative exercise offorestry. We find similar facts in abundance as we pass to theMiddle States: In New York, in Washington County, all the accessible original timberhas been cut off; yet there are some groves of hemlock, valued at $500 peracre, of pine, at $1000, and of oak and hemlo

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