Forestry for profit by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Trenton [Beers pres, inc.]
Published: 1922-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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Black Locusts, IS years old, large enoiajh for fence posts.

yoru'di/ Spruce, 11 years old, ,s' years after planting. These trees were big enough for

Christmas trees u years ago.

A planter doesn't liave to wait a lifetime for profits as so many persons believe. Most

species make fast g:rowth on Jersey soils. Poor farm land may be good forest land.

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yet it is usually easier and often better to plant comparatively small g;roups of from one to several acres of a single species, each group representing the fittest tree when climate, soil, markets and all other factors are considered. A mixture of species is sometimes advisable, as for instance, where it is desired to grow a short time crop, such as Christmas trees or fence posts, to be removed at an early period as a thinning, leaving the remainder to grow to sawlog size. Planting black locust in mixture with other species lessens the danger of an attack b\^ the locust borer.

Quick Growing Trees. —Other things being equal, by all means use the species that will give quickest returns, but bear in mind that rapid growth is usually a response to stimulation through fertile soil, abundant moisture and favorable climate. Most species grow well under suitable conditions; even the best will grow slowly under unfavorable circumstances. Many rapid growing species lack in quality of wood what they gain in quantity, yet for certain products such as pulpvv^ood, cordwood, boxboards, etc., quick growth of a large quantity of comparatively low quality wood is usually most profitable.

Nut Trees. — Fair crops of nuts may be, and often are, produced by forest trees. However, nut culture is not forestry, but a branch of horticulture, like fruit growing. A tree developed for nuts has too much crown to produce good lumber; one grown tall and straight for lumber has too little crown to yield much fruit. Dismiss, therefore, all thought of combining the two crops. Let fruit (including nuts) be grown where that is likely to be profitable and where the trees can be given the care they need. Trees for lumber are satisfied with poorer soil and much less care.

Species Not Recommended. —A few species unfit for economic planting in New Jersey have been so persistantly boomed that their real qualities should be known.

Catalpa grows very rapidly on rich, moist soil and in a mild climate. In North Jersey its late growth is apt to be frozen; in South Jersey only the best agricultural soils are fit. Its wood is valuable chiefly for posts and poles, being very durable, but weak.

Walnut wood is valuable only when cut from the heart of large, old trees. A tree 40 years old might be 12 inches in diameter, }^et contain only a 4-inch cylinder of dark heart wood. The sapwood of young black walnut is very wide, light in color and practically unmarketable. Moreover, walnut demands for good growth soils so fertile that farm crops would undoubtedly bring in bigger profits from the same land.

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