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FARMER'S ASSISTANT. 



FUEL. In the Northern States, fuel is an expensive 

 article, not only to ihe Ftrrner, but to those who live m 

 villages and towns. To the Farmer, however, this artiel 

 usually the most expensive ; as, on account of his not 

 estimating the. real txpense he incurs for fuel, he is in 

 habit of using it in profusion ; generally consuming, together 

 \vith what he suffers to be wasted, twice or three times the 

 quantity really requisite for the use of a family 



A Farmer, with a farm of two hundred acres of lancf^ 

 generally leaves about fitly acres of it uncleared, principal- 

 ly for the purpose of supplying himself with fuel. This 

 land, in the older settled parts of the Country, and where 

 wood is becoming more scarce, would, on an average, com- 

 mand a price of, say. forty dollars an acre, or two thousand 

 dollars for his fitiy acres, the interest of which is one hun- 

 dred and twenty dollars a year. 



Then add about thirty-seven cents, as the expense, per 

 load, of cuting and drawing home about one hundred and 

 twenty loads a y^ar, which amounts to upwards ot forty-four 

 dollars, and the Farmer will find he incurs an expense of 

 more than one hundred and sixty dollars a year for his 

 fuel; a sum which is about double what is usually expend- 

 ed by a family living in a village, and perhaps more than is 

 usually expended, for this article, by a family living in our 

 more large and opulent towns. 



Under article, WARMING OF ROOMS, we have described 

 some improvements in the means oi warming one or more 

 apartments, with the least expense; by which it is estimat- 

 ed, that as much as two-thirds of the usual expense, of fuel, 

 for this purpose, may be saved. 



And, under the article, STEAMBOILER, we have also 

 pointed out the means of greatly lessening the expense 

 of cooking, boiling, Sec. by means of which an equal saving 

 of fuel may be made. Thus enabling a Farmer, of the de- 

 scription just mentioned, to retrench his expenses, in fuel, 

 more than one hundred dollars a year. 



But, in addition to all this, great savings may be made, 

 by adopting the best means for making woodlands yield the 

 greatest possible quantity of wood, as well as of husbanding, 

 lo the best advantage, that which is growing. 



The natural growths of forests are but seldom composed 

 of those trees which grow most rapidly. Such as are most 

 congenial to the soil, and climate, always cover the earth, 

 in a state of Nature, whether their growths be rapid, or 

 slow. At the same time, many trees of quick growth will 

 thrive well in soils, and climates, very different from those 

 where they were first found Such is the case with the 

 locust, button wood, Lombardy- poplar, willow, Sec, Sec. 



