120 VALUE OE TIMBER. 



mon life. Indeed, without it, we would be near- 

 ly as deftitute as we mould be without food or 

 raiment. Timber, therefore, is equally neceflary 

 to our private comforts, and to our exiftence in a 

 national point of view ; befides, wood is to the 

 country as clothing to the body. By the proper 

 management of wood, the feats of the great are 

 embellifhed in an eminent degree ; towns and 

 villages are beautified, and our fields are fhel- 

 tered. 



The advantages to be derived from fubdividing 

 extenfive tra&s of barren country by plantations^ 

 are evidently great, whether confidered in the 

 light of affording immediate flicker to the lands, 

 or in that of improving the local climate. The 

 fad, that the climate may be thus improved, has, 

 in very many inftances, been fufficiently eftablifh- 

 ed. It is, indeed, aftonifhing how much better 

 cattle thrive, in fields even but moderately fhel- 

 tered, than they do in an open expofed country. 

 In the breeding of cattle, a flickered farm, or a 

 flickered corner in a farm, is a thing much prized ; 

 and, in inftances where fields are taken by the 

 feafon, for the purpofe of fattening them, thofe 

 mofl flickered never fail to bring the higheft rents, 

 provided the foil be equal with that of the neigh- 

 bouring fields which are not flickered by trees. 



If we inquire into the caufe, we fhall find, that 

 It does not altogether depend on an early rife of 



grafs, 



