Growing Black Locust Trees figure 18

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Description: English: Photo from the United States Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1628 “Growing Black Locust Trees” with the following caption: “This 20-year-old black locust grove was started by planting year-old seedlings on a worn-out and gullying field. It contains 1,880 posts per acre, worth 10 cents in the tree, or $188 per acre. This is an average yearly gross income of $8.40 per acre.”. Date: 1941. Source: United States. Department of Agriculture. Growing black locust trees., book, January 1941; Washington D.C. (digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5886/m1/31/: accessed December 13, 2018), University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department. Author: United States Department of Agriculture.