WOODLANDS. 73 



ON WOODLANDS. 



You should never cut down your timber in the 

 spring, when the sap is up in the tree, unless the bark 

 is the grand object; as you will injure your land, and 

 the timber will not last half so long. You should 

 clear your woods of the undergrowth, or bushes and 

 briars; and suffer them not to encumber the ground. 

 By doing so, the trees will grow faster and larger. 

 Then seed your woods down in clover and herd grass, 

 for the purpose of having pasture for your horses, 

 cattle, sheep, and your sows and pigs, while the pigs 

 are young. 



If you should have any spare land, which you do 

 not intend to cultivate, and improve by my mode of 

 cultivation; and you should wish to introduce the 

 pine, you must procure some of the seed, put them in 

 a barrel full of water, and let them go through the fer- 

 mentative process. Then sow them on the land that 

 you have set apart, and with your large spike har- 

 row, go over the ground, so as to cover them. If 

 well done, they will soon come up. Beware of sow- 

 ing them too thick, as it will give you the trouble of 

 cutting up the superfluous scions. In ten years you 

 will have a beautiful woods. 



It appears that all living objects of the creation are 

 subject to disease. Trees are no exception, for they 

 too have their diseases in great variety ; such as the 





