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east of the village. The land, between nine and ten 

 acres, was in 1835 mostly covered with white birches, 

 with some white oak and maple trees. The land is 

 light gravelly loam, the bushes and trees 1 had cut 

 and about one acre of the land ploughed and planted 

 with potatoes, and in October, 1 835, 1 sowed one 

 pound of locust seed, but very few came up. In 

 May, 1836, 1 had one acre of land furrowed in fur- 

 rows ten feet apart, and in these furrows sowed two 

 pounds of locust seed, and think that more than ten 

 thousand trees came up. These were hoed once the 

 first year but in the following winter more than three 

 fourths were killed. In the spring of 1837, sowed 

 one pound of Locust seed, on two acres of land, in 

 rows about ten feet apart ; the seed came up well, the 

 plants were slightly hoed the first year, the first win- 

 ter killed more than half of them. In the fall of 1 837, 

 I planted between one and two bushels of white 

 oak acorns in rows ten feet apart, made by plough- 

 ing a furrow, but from these acorns not a single tree 

 came up. I presume the early frost of that year kill- 

 ed the acorns before they were ripe. In 1838 ; sow- 

 ed one pound of locust seed which came up well. I 

 pour hot water on the locust seed, let it remain 

 twelve or twenty hours in the same water ; but few 

 locust seeds will germinate if not soaked in hot wa- 

 ter. I presume there are now on the nine or ten acres 

 of land, in the fourth year of their growth, from five 

 to six thousand trees, and in the third year from three 

 to four thousand trees. Where they were too thick, 

 I transplanted them, and they now cover eight or 

 nine acres. They have been very extensively attack- 



