More than anything else we need just now exact figures of the income from forestry planting, and we have much pleasure in giving from the pen of Mr. J. T. Allen to the Country Gentleman the following excellent note: "Mr. J. T. Griffin, near Omaha, is just thinning a tract of I 5 acres planted in 1860. The trees are 50 feet high, and average 10 inches in diameter one foot from the ground. Taking out the poorest, he is getting from each tree an average of 2 1/2 posts, worth 25 cents each, and two posts for wire fence worth 12 1/2 cents each, giving $96.25 per acre, and leaving 324 of the best trees. The tops for fuel more than pay interest, expense of cultivation, etc. The remaining trees have straight bodies, 12 to 15 feet to a limb. His plan of cultivation has been to plant the nuts ten feet apart each way and cultivate in corn for three years. The corn at 35 cents per bushel would amount to $73.50, or a total, with posts, to date of $175.75 per acre. At the end of five years the tract was seeded to blue grass, furnishing excellent winter pasturage and protection for sheep. In commencing again a plantation of walnuts, at the age of two or three years he would plant between each two a poplar to act as nurses to draw up the walnuts.

These should be cut down as soon as a body is grown, leaving a young saw-log in form, if not in size. The value of the cottonwood for fuel, fencing cattle yards, or roofs for cattle and sheep sheds, would be considerable."