A GIANT PINE.
BIG YIELD FROM HAWKE’S BAY TREE. The value to farmers of planting pinus insignis trees on their property was strikingly proved by the return yielded from a tree recently felled by Messrs Fourneau Brothers’ bn their property at Pakowhai, Hawke’s Bay. The Director of the State Forest Service (Mr L. Macintosh Ellis). has just advice from Mr Fourneau stating that the tree, which was 45 years old, was felled on August 8, and. milled at Tracey and Sons’ mill. The tree yielded 4300 superficial feet, 300 battens, and six cords of firewood. It measured 126 feet in length and was 154 feet in circumference. The butt was oval-shaped, and the tree gradually tapered to the, top. The logs sent to the mill varied in length from four to fourteen feet. The firewood w r as taken from the branches and the extreme top end of the tree, which was too soft for milling. The tree realised £55 in value, which shows the wisdom of planting timber.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 September 1924, Page 5
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169A GIANT PINE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 September 1924, Page 5
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