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cording to my observation, of about sixteen hundred cords of 

 wood ! 



Fifty years ago, it was a common thing for the farmers of 

 Essex County to sell their farms, and remove to newer States, 

 in alarm at the approaching scarcity of wood and timber. My 

 father-in-law, who sold his farm in what is now Georgetown, 

 in 1780, and removed to New Hampshire, spent many anxious 

 thoughts upon his old neighbors, how they were to get along 

 when the fast decreasing woods were all consumed ; forty years 

 afterwards he returned to this vicinity, without finding any 

 trouble in obtaining fuel ! The committee who made the last 

 valuation of this town, report that the wood is little, if any, 

 diminished within the last forty years. 



The walnut is a beautiful tree, easily raised from the seed, 

 and of much more rapid growth than the oak. The wood is 

 excellent, both for fuel and timber, and the fruit is highly 

 valued, especially among children ; and it is generally a good 

 bearer. 



The elm starts readily from* the seed, which ripens in great 

 abundance, before the leaves form, every spring, and may be 

 s own and produce a thrifty plant the same year ! It is a tree 

 of great beauty, thrives in almost every soil, is of rapid growth, 

 and produces valuable wood, both for fuel and timber. In 

 1845 I brought two trees under my carriage, both of which I 

 could carry easily upon my shoulder at once, and set them out 

 in the street in front of my house. The largest tree girths, by 

 measurement to day, one foot from the ground, three feet and 

 two inches. A row of elms from the seed sixteen years ago, 

 set from the garden on the river bank, are now, several of 

 them, t-sventy feet high and six inches through. 



I propose to add a few words upon "Worms Injurious to 

 Forest Trees. 



Mr. Coffin, in his History of Newbury, gives an extract 

 from the margin of an almanac of 1736, written by the Hon. 

 Bailey Bartlett, which tallies so exactly with a similar calamity 



