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GROWING TIMBER TREE-PL ANTING. 



IN my judgment, the proportion of a small farm 

 that should be constantly devoted to trees (other than 

 fruit) is not less than one-fourth ; while, of farms ex- 

 ceeding one hundred acres in area, that proportion 

 should be not less than one-third, and may often be 

 profitably increased to one-half. I am thinking of 

 such as are in good part superficially rugged and 

 rocky, or sandy and sterile, such as New-England, 

 eastern New- York, northern New-Jersey, with both 

 dopes of the Alleghenies, as well as the western third 

 of our continent, abound in. It may be that it is ad- 

 visable to be content with a smaller proportion of 

 timber in the Prairie States and the broad, fertile in- 

 tervales which embosom most of our great rivers for 

 at least a part of their course ; but I doubt it. And 

 there is scarcely a farm in the whole country, outside 

 of the great primitive forests in which openings have 

 but recently been made, in which some tree-planting 

 is not urgently required. 



" Too much land," you will hear assigned on every 

 side as a reason for poor farming and meager crops. 

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