4:8 WHAT I KNOW OF FARMING. 



remains of now extinct races who formerly peopled 

 and tilled the central valleys of this continent, and 

 especially the Territory of Arizona, probably bear 

 witness to a similar recklessness, which is paralleled 

 by our fathers' and our own extermination of the 

 magnificent forests of White Pine which, barely a 

 century ago, covered so large a portion of the soil of 

 our Northern States. Yermont sold White Pine 

 abundantly to England through Canada within my 

 day : she is now supplying her own wants from Can- 

 ada at a cost of not less than five times the price she 

 sold for ; and she will be paying still higher rates be- 

 fore the close of this century. I entreat our farmers 

 not to preserve every tree, good, bad, or indifferent, 

 that may happen to be growing on their lands but, 

 outside of the limited districts wherein the primitive 

 forest must still be cut away in order that land may 

 be obtained for cultivation, to plant and rear at least 

 two better trees for every one they may be impelled to 

 cut down. How this may, in the average, be most 

 judiciously done, I will try to indicate in the suc- 

 ceeding chapter. 



