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and cut in pieces. And every man, accus- 

 tomed to purchase such trees wliilc stand- 

 ing, will subscribe to the matter of fact. 

 Nobody, however, can suppose, that a 

 doubtful article will ever fetch as much 

 money, as one whose soundness can be 

 depended on. Of course, the proprietors 

 of timber suffer, not only because their ar- 

 ticle is really defective, but because what 

 appears otherwise, is suspected to I/e so. 

 A good system of management would, 

 among other beneficial effects, go far to 

 reduce the matter to a certainty. 



The woodpeckers frequently make 

 holes in trees ; but such are, in the first 

 instance, materially different from what 

 are left by dead branches ; having but scl-^ 

 dom a downward tendency, and never 

 ariy swell aroUnd them ; nor do they 

 often reach the core. In a }' oung vigorous 

 tree, they sometimes grow over; in one 

 the reverse, very seldom ; and, therefore, in 

 time, the wet they receive, will penetrate 



