220 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



the trees advance in size. One hundred and fifty well grown 

 white pine timber trees on an acre are a good crop. 



If seed is used, instead of setting young trees, we would sow 

 much thicker, in order that the young plants should afford each 

 other protection until they get a fair start, when they may be 

 removed as becomes necessary, or they may all remain. The 

 larger trees will eventually stifle and choke out the small ones. 



Red cedar and larch will thrive on rocky hills ; white cedar 

 in wet swamps, where scarcely anything else can bo made to 

 grow ; spruce, hemlock and white pine in regions between those 

 extremes of wet and dry. 



The white ash flourishes in wet meadows and runs, in deep 

 loams and by the side of streams. Its value for various uses is, 

 in a large measure, appreciated, so we will not occupy space by 

 enumerating them. This tree may be propagated from seed 

 with facility. Gather the seed before it falls from the trees in 

 October, and plant in drills as for pease, when they may be 

 regarded as sure to come — as much so as any good garden-seeds, 

 with the usual care in planting. The young trees are as safe in 

 removal as an apple-tree. Indeed, in planting a hundred ash 

 trees ten to twelve feet high, we believe failures would be as 

 rare as in planting the same number of any kind of fruit-trees. 

 Save all the saplings of this kind, which give promise^ of making 

 timber, when sufficient size is attained. 



Having glanced briefly at a few of the more valuable kinds of 

 timber, without specifying their various uses, presuming that to 

 be a matter well understood by most New Engianders, we desire 

 now to turn our attention to the treatment of woodlands and 

 forests which are already advancing in various stages' of growth. 

 Our cities and villages each furnish a market for timber and for 

 fuel, either greater or less in extent, according to size. 



Tlie network of railroads which traverse almost every nook 

 and corner of this section of the country are great consumers of 

 firewood, as well as chestnut timber, and we propose to present 

 some statistics, in another place, which will convey an idea of 

 the magnitude of the consumption in that direction. 



Within a circle, ten to twenty miles from our cities and larger 

 villages, farmers have — many of them, at least — adopted a 

 system which is not altogether faulty, in cutting off wood for 

 market, or in large quantities for any purpose. AVe refer to 



