Today, this small body of pine woods contains 90,000 board feet of lumber worth at least $1,500 on the stump.
The farmer who set out the trees devoted about $35 worth of land and labor to the miniature forest.

Within a generation this expenditure has grown into a valuable asset which yielded a return of $34.09 a year on the investment.
[Illustration: ON POOR SOIL TREES SUCH AS THESE ARE MORE PROFITABLE THAN FARM CROPS ] A New York farmer who plays square with his woodland realizes a continuous profit of $1 a day from a 115-acre timber tract.

The annual growth of this well-managed farm forest is .65 cords of wood per acre, equivalent to 75 cords of wood--mostly tulip poplar--a year.

The farmer's profit amounts to $4.68 a cord, or a total of $364.50 from the entire timber tract.

Over in New Hampshire, an associate sold a two-acre stand of white pine--this was before the inflated war prices were in force--for $2,000 on the stump.