Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1886 [PAGE 268]

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260 Forest Record for 1871.

i ! Ave'g i A g e of Dis- 1 P e r gro'th Total N o . i N o . of ; t r e e s C o s t of C o s t of C o s 1 i o f in feet c o s t N a m e of T r e e s . a c r ' s j t r e e s . ! w h e n t r e e s . i p l a n t . g CUltl- 1 t a n c e • c e n t d plant'd 'ation. p l a n t ' d 1 Lving. i n a n e s . ; s o f a r . ch

Ash, green Catalpa Chestnut Elm, white Larch, European Maple, white Osage Orange... Pine, Austrian... Pine, Scotch Walnut, white.... Wallow, w h i t e Totals

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% % % Mr

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l,300i 3 y r s . 14,974' 2 1,361 2 1,361! 2 860; 2 10,890 \ 1 680, 3 1,361 2 680 9 t o l 2 i n 680 1 t o 2 ft 1,361! 2 y r s . 1,361 1 36,749

$27 149 21 30 4 98 8 5

20' 74! 77! 00! 76! 0V 16 44

30 oo:

30 00 j 20 40, 8 00;

$6 .95! 35 03 i 4 17 6 79 3 95 21 20! 6 17 4 78i 4 40! 4 25' 3 43 4 07,

$6 4 2 3 3 8 3 1 2 3

19 79 53 95 43 50 89 30 94 04 85 1 42

2x1 2x4 2x4 2x4 2x4! 2x4 ! 2x4 2x4 4x4 4x4 2x4 2x4

.98 .95 100 .50 100 .25 .98 .98 .2 .2 .99 .98

1 1 1 2

2

.01 $40 34 .6: 190 16 ! - 28 47 .6 40 74 12 14 .6 127 71 ! 18 22 1 11 52 1 37 34 1 37 29 24 9^ .6 1 14 09 i 583 00

$433 48; $106 59

$42 83

All t h e aboye trees looked fine t h e first part of the season, but d u r i n g the after p a r t t h e W r hite Grub 'the larvae of t h e May Beetle) almost destroyed some of the varieties. T h e y w o r k e d mostly on t h e E u r o p e a n L a r c h and White A s h ; in some i n s t a n c e s girdling t h e r o o t s entirely, from one a n d a half i n c h e s below t h e surface, several inches d o w n ; a n d owing to t o t h e season being so dry. the t r e e s could not r e p a i r t h e injury. White Ash two feet h i g h w e r e girdled in t h e s a m e m a n n e r . I n the case of t h e Austrian a n d Scotch P i n e s we att r i b u t e losing so m a n y mostly to the d r y n e s s of the s e a s o n . The Scotch P i n e were n e v e r t r a n s p l a n t e d before, which we t h i n k was one c a u s e of so m a n y dying. C h e s t n u t s were injured s o m e w h a t by the grub."

Forest Record for 1872.

A s h , Green \ Ash, White j Catalpa i ( Chestnut ! E l m , W h i t e . ..; L a r c h , Euro-j pean IKe-pl. '72 Maple. White . 1871 O s a g e Orange. Pine, Australian Ee-pl. 1-2 P i n e , Scotch .. Walnut, White. 1871 Willow, White! 1872 P i n e , (White.. S p r u c e , Nor way

4,000 1 y e a r . . . .

$30 00; $6 90

30 32 72 4 97 6 4 5 5 12 82 4x4 20 4x4 00 2x4 67:2x4 00 4x4!

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302 ft.1 98 4 ft.; 98,5*6 ft. i 304 20! 4 99 2 9*U 98|3 in.;

4 97;

194 44 18 95 10 49

1,000 9 t o 12 i n . . 1,000 12 t o 15 i n . .

25 00 20 00;

6 40 3 70

2,722[12tol5in,.| 1,300 10,0^3;.

122 49i 9 85! 29 94! 45

I 30 3

38 22; 75 50 27 90 05 19 5 00! 30 ft 5 07 19 70 144 34 144 34 47 51! 47 51 $371 40! $958 13

10 12 2x4

....; $227 43 $34 30 $109 70!.