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When a farm is quite destitute 

 of a forest, some spot, or spots,the 

 least adapted to tillage of any part 

 of the farm, should be converted to 

 this use, and be planted with such 

 trees as may be expected to thrive 

 best. 



If these spots be tillable, "cattle 

 of all kinds, and swine should be 

 fenced out ; and the ground well 

 ploughed and harrowed, and made 

 mellow. Acorns may be put in, 

 in rows foair feet asunder, two in- 

 ches apart, and two inches deep. 

 The intervals may bear some hoed 

 crops, while the trees are small. 

 They should be hoed the first year 

 with the hand hoe ; the second 

 with the horse hoe, and so on af- 

 terwards. When they are a year 

 old begin to thin them. When they 

 are, by repeated thinnings, as they 

 grow larger, reduced to the dis- 

 tance of eight feet, ail the rest may 

 stand for timber, till some of them 

 are fit for some uses. But tht; final 

 distance for large timber trees, is 

 from twenty to thirty feet." Coni- 

 plete Farmer. 



But if places designed for forests 

 cannot conveniently be tilled, the 

 trees should be raised in a nurse- 

 ry, and traiipplanted into such pla- 

 ces. The cost of doing it will be 

 trifling, to compare with the ad 

 vantage to be obtained by doing 

 it, especially in those parts of the 

 country where wood is become a 

 scarce article. Small clumps of 

 trees on little eminences, have an 

 excellent effect on the beauty of a 

 country. 



In the Mass. Agr. Rep. vol.V. p. 

 32 to 62, were published some va- 

 luable '' Remarks on the gradual 



diminution of the Forests of MaS" 

 sachusells and the importance 

 of an early attention to some 

 effectual remedy. With extracts 

 from the work of M. Michaux, on 

 the Forest Trees of Korth Ame- 

 rica. Our intended and ne- 

 cessary brevity render it inex- 

 pedient to give the whole of 

 this paper, but we will present 

 such extracts as we think will best 

 serve to excite attention to this 

 very important subject. 



In adverting to the great solici- 

 tude manifested by some Europe- 

 an nations to preserve their wood- 

 lands, the author observes that "In 

 France, great and extensive public 

 forests were sacredly preserved, 

 even during the period of the re- 

 volution, when almost every thing 

 else was abandoned to destruction. 

 By the systf-m of management 

 which now prevails, it is compu- 

 ted, that the forests of France, and 

 the supplies which they furnish, 

 will never diminish, and that there 

 will be always sufficient for domes- 

 tic consumption for fuel, as well as 

 for architectural and naval purpo- 

 ses." 



Stating the causes which induced 

 a too general destruction of forest 

 trees in this country, the author 

 observes ; " The cost and expense 

 of clearing our lands compared 

 with their value after they were 

 cleared, and the difficulty of era- 

 dicating completely the after 

 growth, were so great, and the for- 

 ests themselves appeared so vast 

 in proportion to the probable de- 

 mand for fuel, and wood for build- 

 ing, and other purposes, that no 

 man dreanjt that the day would ar- 



