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CHRONICLE. 
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on in an irregular 
eer the consequence of which is 
the flush rema in soft for a limited time 
But he was a born genius. <A few 
ose omg! was a ing very learnedly 
ne on the stupidity of pla seg pe 
sisting in cultivating the China a var iety, when ord- 
e 
ed gardens with hybrids, -i was 
ta ir unnecessary, as pruning 
c 
editions as the pranin pos an “y so generally 
known.” My friend admitted that the in- 
formation was n, and expressed his 
deepest gratitu i oe it, int thought he would defer 
the conversion of his bushe 
In the earlier days of Indian 
was considere 
visitor is always certain o! 
any fuss, h are sure signs success and 
$ ped of ‘the und . James A, Camis, Dar- 
8, Seplember 5, 1874. 
eneral inclin dd 
the annual proŭnetion of. the fast disappearing Pine. 
The question is one that grown upon us by inves- 
Smar; ret ve not hesitated to set a n 
n before the pu public In the oe by 
Mr 1 Little ot this city, at the recen om 
-lumbermen tawa,—a report rt OF which was pre- 
sented in our columns— it 3 be re that he 
in a Pennsylvania quoting from an official circular the 
i i ust their 
We now find the 
- lowin à New York Tribune Rip oe in 
; we Boston Linker Trade, which ga s the 
; above referred to. 
their at consumption ; 
When i is considered 
amoun secs to 
e ma ay in so “Measure ealis r 
ur timber will be in a few years he whe 
find ourselves called apai to supply all and mo 
than that vast amoun ve hundred millions of 
; the lumbe 
wi 
a6 o look to our forests for ad alo 
is teaches the „< onal lesson of the necessity of 
these resources of ours in e tiy possible 
X eet The ale reads as follows 
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and consumers in this State ar 
Seea 5 a die of the apott fact ‘that 
z ‘ine resources of Penn se og se are not inex- 
- haustible, as they have apparently long been con 
sidered. The a was once one of the leading Pine 
Producers in t eU ense forests bordering 
{ and traversed by its its a tributaries ; 
of = = a y, and in fact 
trees that covered y much oi 
- nearly one -fifteenth of this land. 
much 
din the 
comply with |- 
and to 
The BEG ai of the Delaware rih e yielded no Pine 
for years the resources of the eragi me a oat en 
Alleghany and Monongahela hare 
nae to supply the markets of ey ‘Ohi io Valley, that 
y short time their Pine fores Il be 
aitoi. Eas eh markets must, mn erefore, "took to 
the counties of the northern part of the State for their 
supplies of Pennsylvania Pine. ‘ladelphia and Balti- 
m ave been furnished with this timber from 
the latter region for years, but an increasing demand by 
marke s, an 
awakened much alarm among 
Susquehanna Valley, an 
hi 
interests of Pennsylvania, postpon ned as long as possible. 
A significant and alarming fact is that the coal ser 
once famous Pine producing countie: ply 
same product. e no erm 
counties o tate are now the only hope, for the 
market 
ets. The ey are drained by the Susquehanna River 
and its tributaries. By ‘‘ E; 
markets,” 
e lumber can te 
owever, do not ship 
lumber to find a market, ‘but -only to fill orders. 
Much of thë P. i tract 
ed for by the Erie Railway Company, which consumes 
etween 15,000,000 and 20,000,000 feet of lumber 
zen ually, h markets which 
mand the ee of the forests of the Susquehanna 
counties are a cipally oy ded Sagan and Balti- 
more, and the important intermediate ports, 
The piahi Pasians counties of Pennsylvania 
now are Lycoming, Potter, n Ik 
5 earfield. 
A. 
Pine in that revion is 
It is admitted that the annual demand will 
continue to be as as that of the past five years 
i z eet... The 
ome 
nds of operators is—How 
Aco that separ ? It is estimated 
te) that ti 
of Pine 1 
in the above counties will yield at present 10,000 feet of 
Pine. This would require PA eho to produce 
: ns, of es 
the P 
produced from which would naturally follow the Susque- 
anna Riv er to market. It includes timber, farm and 
o0, 
Pott 338,400 
Cameron 88,680 
Tio 400,000 
Elk ‘ 276,480 
Clinton + (512,000 
Centre .. ` 400,000 
Clearfie! - 784,000 
Total s% ss ++ 3,719,560 
To produce 2,500,000,000 feet of Pine will require 
This amount. does 
not exist, the t liberal estimate placing the number 
actual Sranncodecteg acres at one twenty-fifth of the 
above total unt. Some tors go 
ne. Taki s 5 
than four years will exhaust the Pine supply of the Sus- 
atas ciny, and the now comparatively neglected 
their Pine. these inexhaustible? Is not 
ane the once pis pine ang State of 
Aae m is so nearly bereft of this great source of 
th that the date ofi its Ahmas so easy of at 
omp utation 
f the available 
There is Bae mi food fi 
| an in this 
arm 
the Fom it is true, but what a the fatre? pd 
treal Gaze 
Pere 
DURING this month, and as early as possible, the 
bee-keeper should take iga possible precaution, and 
oe pt every known ns, safe e disposi- 
ure the 
on of his ont tity for the era The 
uy every 5 should yu 
show 
he rapidly decre EEEN Pine woods of the 
bees do not convey the infection, except by means of 
the honey they with them and nai: in the ete 
of the hive into which they may be in as 
the queen does not deposit n her ei 
(alone) is unattended with danger to the stock to 
which she may be given. 
considered exhausted, and it will sete’ Soutien evident 
that a pnd are weak in stores, feeding should 
e pro witht further delay. This should 
take see ace on ily a nig 
robbing, which the scent of bee-food 
t occasioned 
time of y 
vocative of robbery, and someti the 
pon ee of the united stocks ; it will therefore be 
prudent to avoid its use, and ado e measures 
iw i ina recent number of the British Bee meds 
Taking a hint from themselves is sometim 
Neither of these holes eat permit o ere cae 
bee passing at a t ich we i istake 
on the part cheat © onderful arenaen, for some- 
tiges of wax-moth which may be found there, the floor- 
ee should be thoroughly a eo where so con- 
hould be turned 
aot ase that the bees 1 may ube the comfort 
of a clean floor and n no vermin in their winter quarters. 
Destroying Wise? nests now will vent the 
ager of many hun 
a 
ity that th pests, ch at i 
dok now, should be allowed to until thei 
queens for next year, mta hybernated, as then t 
ies, ar 
angerous, more easily aaa and i 
and bein 
inexpensive m ae ial ; , eV ery bee- keeper 
should, by its m ns, endeavour y oid his neighbour- 
hood of tengo veting ritish Bee EE 
pests. Z. 
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