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FOREST PLANTATIONS. 



KEEPING PLANTATIONS DRY.' 



A variety of circumftances may have laid your 

 young plantations in fome parts under water. Ex- 

 amine, therefore, the whole of fuch as are liable 

 to fuch an occurrence from their fituation ; and 

 take care that they be made dry, or at leafl as 

 much fo as things will admit. 



Although we have above urged that the young 

 plantations mould be kept dry with care, we would 

 not be underftood as giving the lead latitude as to 

 keeping old woods, or timber trees of any kind, 

 at all in a wet flate. Indeed, if the young plant- 

 ations require to be kept dry to fecure their pro- 

 fperity, old trees require it much more fo ; info- 

 much, that when we fee old foreft trees in a fick- 

 ly ilate, our firfl fufpicion generally is, that it a- 

 rifes from too great a quantity of moifture ; and, 

 in nine c*fes out often, this proves to be the fad. 



It generally happens, that, at the firft eftablifh- 

 ment of a plantation, proper ditches and drains 

 are made. But, from a change of matters, or 

 probably from neglect, or it may be from an idea 

 that it is a matter of indifference, they are, in a 

 vaft many inflances, allowed to be choked up, 



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