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this brush in the month of August or September, and effectaally 

 finished it ; there was no sprouting ; if I had cut them in any 

 other season, they would have grown again. 



E. W. Stebbins, of Deerfield. — Is that so with regard to the 

 wahiut ? Can you kill out the walnut sprout by cutting it once 

 or twice, or even twenty times ? 



Mr. Perkins. — We have no walnut timber in our place, and I 

 cannot say from actual experience ; but I have no doubt that it 

 can be effectually killed. There is a time when the life of the 

 tree is pretty much done for this season, and does not operate 

 until the next ; and if, at that time you cut off all the leaves, it 

 will effectually kill it. 



Mr. Smith. — In answer to Mr. Stebbins's question, I will say 

 that some few years since I spent a few days in Wisconsin. A 

 friend of mine was clearing a piece of land for wheat that was 

 covered with what they call " scrub timber," consisting of white 

 oak and walnut ; and they were digging it out invariably. They 

 dug down twelve or fifteen inches, and cut off the roots. I 

 asked the reason for that, and they said it was the only way 

 they could clear the ground. They stated that they would grow 

 there for a hundred years if they were not cut down low. 



I will state that I use ashes, leached or unleached, on my 

 land, and the result is to bring in white clover, I consider that 

 I get great benefit from it. 



Mr. Wetherell. — I was speaking to Professor Turner, one 

 day, and I told him that I had heard that the hickory could not 

 be transplanted and made to grow. He said, " I can show you 

 one growing." I asked him how he managed to move it, and 

 he said, " My men dug down a depth of twenty-two feet, to the 

 end of the tap-root, and then the tree was removed to my yard, 

 a large hole dug, and the root coiled and placed in that excava- 

 tion." He showed me the tree, and it was growing. That is 

 .an illustration of the depth to which the tap-root of that partic- 

 ular tree penetrates. 



I would say, also, that a friend of mine told me that he cut 

 over a swamp the last of December or first of January — cut it 

 smooth and close — and he never saw a sprout from a single 

 bush or shrub. He said he had cut it frequently before, at 

 other seasons of the year, and was troubled with sprouts ; but 

 in this instance, he never saw a single sprout. Yet this case 



