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Saddles, harness and trunks, .... $1,220,049 00 



Mechanics' tools, 1,142,614 00 



Friction matches, ...... 95,750 00 



Making an aggregate of . . . . $11,748,822 00 



We omit several articles, such as brooms, brushes, clocks, fire 

 engines, and the bark used in tanneries, railroad-sleepers and 

 fencing materials, all of which would add not a little to the 

 quantity and value of wood and timber consumed in the State. 

 And it should be observed, too, that the returns of the assessors, 

 from which these facts are derived, are pronounced, in the 

 report, very imperfect, and that if full and exact, might swell 

 the ao'gregates. 



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We have, then, one aggregate of $14,869,146, from which, 

 only, the expense of labor is to be deducted ; and another of 

 $11,748,822, from which the expense of labor and of the differ- 

 ent materials used, is to be deducted. How large these several 

 deductions should be, we are not able to state with any pre- 

 cision. Allowing them to equal seven-tenths of the whole 

 amount, and this we regard a large allowance, the net value 

 of wood prepared for market, and of wooden materials used in 

 different manufactures, in the year ending June 1, 1855, would 

 be $7,985,396. And this labor and manufacturing has given 

 employment to at least 125,000 persons, and support, doubtless, 

 to five times as many. 



We proceed, now, to make further extracts from Mr. Emer- 

 son's report, and present his remarks on the continuation and 

 improvement of the forests. 



Planting trees on a large scale, has been seldom attempted in 

 New England. The inhabitants of the towns have been content 

 with the kinds of wood growing in their neighborhood ; or, 

 where particular kinds not to be found there, were necessary 

 for the manufactures already established, they have been satis- 

 fied to import them from a distance. In very few instances, 

 have systematic efforts been made to provide a future supply of 

 the best materials, in their own immediate vicinity. This is to 

 be done. The individuals interested in a particular branch of 

 manufacture may say, that when materials fail them in one 

 place, they will go to another. The owners of the land ought 



