WOODLAND PATHS 



danger of uprooting of the whole year. 

 Farmers often clear a shrubby pasture 

 in late March or early April hereabout 

 by taking advantage of this fact. They 

 make a trace-chain fast about the base 

 of a pasture cedar or a stout huckleberry 

 bush, and with a word to the old horse 

 the shrub is dragged from the softened 

 earth, root and all. In mid-summer, 

 after the ground has become compact, this 

 is not to be done. 



It is the spring house-cleaning time of 

 the year, when nature is sweeping and 

 picking up, preparatory to laying new car- 

 pets and getting new furnishings through- 

 out, and if any of the old furniture of the 

 woodland is not able to stand the strain 

 it has to go to the woodpile. Without 

 the mad March winds the forest would 

 lose much of its fresh virility, the old 



deadwood would cumber the new growth, 

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