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ently grown together by root, trunk or limbs, but on cutting into them I never 

 found the least union of the wood. 



KXOTS. 



Mr. Warren Brown, Flint, writes as follows in reference to a huge oak knot 

 which he donates : " The tree is nearly three feet at the butt. The wart is ten 

 feet up the tree and is sound as a nut. I should have it made into a jounch bowl, 

 neatly carved. This wart goes round tlie tree within ten inches. Aro^^nd the 

 tree over the knot the tree is in circumference about twenty-five feet." 



Sanford Keeler, Superintendent of the Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad, sends 

 a portion of a pine tree which made a complete turn around and then grew on 

 straight. The curl was about 30 feet from the ground and there was six inches 

 in diameter. 



Hon. J. Webster Childs sends a mallet made of a black ash knot. It is well 

 made and is a beautiful specimen, showing a variety of faces or sides of the 

 grain. 



Mr. V. Gr. Canfield, Lansing, gives a cut from a knot of black walnut. One 

 side we have polished ; the other shows the bark. 



deer's axtlee in a tree. 



A part of one is imbedded in an oak rail from a tree two feet in diameter, 

 where it remained some years before it was discovered. By estimate the horn 

 was about nine feet from tlie ground when the tree was standing. This was 

 sent by Augustus Schmidt, of Kalamazoo, at the suggestion of H. Dale Adams. 



A. B. Wetherbee, of Cass County, sends the following : The deer's horn in this 

 case is about 16 inches long and has two branches, one projecting obliquely up 

 alongside, and the other passing horizontally into and through the heart of the 

 tree. The point of the upper branch is perfect; the lower one is somewhat 

 damaged, and the base of the horn, fixed in the sap-wood of the tree, shows 

 proofs of its former attachment to the head of the deer. The tree is perfectly 

 sound, and is an ordinary white oak, 23 inches in diameter. It was first noticed 

 by the early settlers about 36 years ago, when the tree was but eight or ten 

 inches in diameter, with the horn projecting apparently through the center ; the 

 points disappeared about ten years ago, and when the tree was cut, March 7, 

 1876, only a small portion of the bone attached to the horn was visible. 



The writer remembers seeing a specimen at the University of Michigan much 

 like the one sent by Mr. Wetherbee. 



In all these cases we suppose some one hung the antler on the limb of a tree 

 out of the reach of wolves and dogs, or to place it where he could find it on 

 some future occasion. 



Allen & Co., Lansing, send a model of their new patent window blind made 

 of the ricli, beautiful wood of staghorn sumach. 



WHAT TREES TO PLAKT. 



It may seem strange to hear of raising trees for timber in Michigan, but our 

 people will soon begin to raise some kinds, and some of us will live to see it in 

 all probability. So far as we can judge now our best trees to raise for timber 

 are white ash, hickory, black walnut, white pine, white oak, European larch, 

 and chestnut. An acre of timber raised, cultivated and properly cared for is of 

 much more value than an acre of forest trees of the same species. 



At tiie Agricultural College we have begun in a small way to raise some of 

 our native trees, some foreign ones also, to see which will prove of most value 

 for future generations to grow for profit, shelter and ornament. 



