id: 



Where the belt or forest is designed exclusively for fuel, then all the rows 

 inside of the cedars and hickories may be planted with such trees as shall 

 make the best and most fuel, at 20 years pf age, and one-half of the belt may 

 be cut away at a time, leaving only the cedars. When the cut portion has 

 grown up, twenty or more feet, the other half can be cut. If kinds have 

 been used in forming the belt or forest,, which send up shoots and suckers, or 

 if small seedlings have started, there will be no risk about the forest or belt 

 springing up again even too thick to stand and so as to require a great deal 

 of thinning out. 



Timber belts may either be reserved in clearing. lands, wherever it can be 

 found sufficiently thickly planted by nature with valuable native trees, or be 

 made by planting. They should run in such manner as to afford protection 

 from the severe prevailing winds; but no farther from belt to belt than will 

 afford the required protection. We have indicated for level land forty rods 

 apart as a v^ry proper distance. If the land is more or less hilly discretion 

 must be used in placing the bejts, and irregularity in their position will be 

 necessary. They maybe allowed to occupy a hill side, or its brow, the bor- 

 ders of a ravine, pr other irregular surface which cannot be advantageously 

 tilled without liability tp wash. But wherever they are, however located, no 

 cattle or hogs should at any time be allowed access to the growing belt, as 

 the one would consume the nuts and the other destroy the young trees which 

 are to keep the shelter perfect and afford the succession of trees when the 

 old ones are cut. 



SOME OTHER ADVAN'TAG-ES OF TREE BELTS. 



The strip of land occupied by the tree-belt is far from being so much land 

 lost to the farmer. Beside the protection and shelter it would afford by 

 warding off the winds from the men, the stock and the grain; assisting its 

 growth by making a moist strip of ajr around the field, and thus not unfre- 

 quently protecting the growing crop from frost by collecting and holding the 

 vapor on a cool summer night, the trees shed many of their leaves on the 

 land, where they decay, greatly enriching the mil. When the timber has 

 once grown up, what can be more convenient than access to this storehouse 

 for a stake) a pole, a lever or other timber desired for use. No other acres 

 would be of equal value to. the farm. Wood land is to-day more in demand 

 in the thickly settled portions of the state, than wheat land, and higher 

 prices paid for it. 



It is not unknown to us all that many countries are fearfully wasted by the 

 depredations of insects ; also that the most devastating of these insets are 

 such as are seldom seen on the wing during the period of their ravages. Thus 

 the locust and grasshopper have, from time immemorial, devoured the vegeta- 

 tion of some countries at the east. The ravages of these insects have fur- 

 nished the theme for the illustrations of the poet and orator in the east, 

 when describing the wrath of God against the sins of the people ; and 



