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of the oak, ■will be the means of effecting an object so desirable. 

 Some portions of Europe have been converted to mei-e deserts, by 

 destroying the forests, — the sand being blown about like the waves 

 of the ocean ; and in some cases threatening to overwhelm and de- 

 stroy whole villages. In some parts of our county there is a great 

 deficiency of trees, while at the same time there are many tracts of 

 land which are unfit for cultivation, upon which trees would readily 

 flourish. The feed on much of the open pasture land would be in- 

 creased, as well as comfort afforded to the animals, by planting for- 

 ty or fifty trees of the yellow locust to the acre, the income from 

 which in a few years would equal the value of the land. Trees 

 protect a country from the force of winds, attract the moisture of 

 the atmosphere, prevent too great evaporation, and have a tendency 

 to promote the health of the inhabitants, as well as to add beauty 

 to the landscape. Says one, "there is nothing in the compass of 

 animated nature so interesting as trees. They speak a language to 

 the heart which none but a heart of utter insensibility can fail to 

 understand. It must be noticed by every observer that even the 

 "brute creation feel a veneration for trees. They form a part of al- 

 most every implement and every machine by which the genius of 

 man has taught him to lighten the labor of his hand. There is that 

 in a tree considered as an individual work of the Creator which 

 may well excite our attention and most amply reward our study." 



Indian corn is worthy of more attention than is usually bestowed 

 upon it ; not only for the grain which it produces abundantly, but 

 for the large amount of fodder, when raised for that purpose. It 

 bears high culture, withstands the drought avcII, and produces more 

 to the acre than any other grain. An error is frequently commit- 

 ted in its cultivation by removing at the last hoeing the suckers 

 which spring from the root. The male blossoms on the main stock 

 under ordinary circumstances do not remain in vigor more than four 

 or five days, and frequently not so long. And this length of time 

 is only sufficient to fertilize the earliest ears, in which the female 

 blossoms come out first from the lowest grains and present them- 

 selves at the ends of the corrola or husk, and as they come out are 

 fertilized. Thus, they are daily presenting themselves until the whole 

 are fertilized. But if the heat of the weather, or other causes de- 

 stroy the male blossoms before the whole of the female blossoms ap- 

 pear, then if there be no suckers to supply the feitilizing powder, a 



