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Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 185, 6 August 1920, Page 5

The .ever-increasing scarcity and cost of firewood and ooal has turn pel main- land-owners' attention to the feasibility of growing their own supplies. Nearly every farm lias a certain amount" of poo:- land. A good idea is to plant this up with pin us insignis-. Tlie trees grow rapidly, and can be-lised for firewood .■about, the sixth year. The \voo(d, if kept dry, makes splendid firewood, and burns brightly without sparks. ]f 1000 trees to' the acre are planted, starting a.t the sixth year these may bo thinned down to 100 to the acre by the twentieth, year, and you will still have an asset worth £200 per acre for timber. Write for booklet on Forestry, post free.—H. G. Kingsland, Forestry Specialist, Wakefield, Nelson. —Advt.