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found most advantageous; each person selecting for his own locality, needs, 

 market or personal taste or preference, such varieties of timber as an intelli- 

 gent judgment dictates. One thing is evident to every observing, thinking 

 man, and this is that the exigencies of our times demand, more tlian almost any 

 other one thing, a united, well directed and widespread effort at timber culture. 

 In my own State, a few years ago, the great drawback to its settlement and de- 

 velopment was the superabundance of timber that interfered with agricultural 

 pursuits. Now, the first and leading question of the seeker after real estate 

 in our section is, "■ How much timber land have you ?" and the price of land 

 depends upon this more than upon the quality of soil or many other important 

 requisites. 



