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Mr. J. B. Lyman.— If Ohio could turn out 2,000 or 3,000 such 

 boys as this lad in Portage county, half the continent would in ten 

 years be eating Ohio apples, drinking Ohio cider, boiling Ohio pota- 

 toes, and sending agricultural committees to study Ohio farming. 

 We say to Marius, go on my lad, God bless you and your orchard ! 

 May the east wind never blast your buds, may the curculio never 

 sting the red cheeks of your apples ; may care and losses never blanch 

 your own ruddy cheeks. 



For that orchard that is to far for hauling from the barn, we will 

 prescribe. You burn wood in Portage county, and mostly oak 

 wood, some beech and maple. JS"ow, you save every shovelful! of 

 hard wood ashes, and buy all jow can at a reasonble price, for that 

 orchard. No matter if they are leached — they are not much hurt 

 for manure by the leaching. Then, some wet day, get your father 

 to give you the use of the steers, and plow up some rough piece of 

 pasture land near the orchard, take the sods and pile them, and let 

 them rot down. Go to the woods with side boards on the cart, late 

 in the fall, just before Thanksgiving, and gather a good many loads 

 of leaves, oak, and beech, and maple, preferring the beech, pile 

 them in a wet fence corner, and throw some sods on to keep them 

 down and help them rot. Early next spring you will be able to 

 throw half a cart load, perhaps, of compost under and around each 

 tree ; that will prove for apples better than yard manure. Tou 

 may know of some neglected piles of rotting oak tan bark, or oak 

 sawdust. If you do, and the distance is not too great, let it finish 

 rotting in your orchard. 



The Destkuction of oue Pine Forests — The Eemedt. 



The following paper was now read by Mr. W. H. Trowbridge, of 

 Michigan. He said : 



The impartial and well-informed observer must view with alarm 

 the wholesale destruction of the forests, no less than the reckless 

 consumption of lumber. And it is notable that the very ones who are 

 the heaviest engaged in this destruction are those who least com- 

 prehend it. The lumbermen of to-day, having sufficient for their 

 present needs, are careless and blind as to the wants of to-morrow, 

 and only those among them who have witnessed the almost total 

 exhaustion of pine from the forests of Maine, or from the pineries 

 of the Allegany region, can fully realize the enormous demand upon 

 a comparatively limited supply. The Canadian forests will need no 



