152 PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 
destined for shipment to Europe. There are but very few walnut trees left in 
this section of Kentucky. 
Oak lumber has become so scarce that inspectors accept anything offered, 
even if but a shell of good timber remains around a badly decayed log. 
At each railway station may be seen stacks of oak ties which have been 
hauled from great distances across the mountains over steep, rocky roads, 
quite deep with mud, as a rule, which are waiting the inspector before ship- 
ping them northward. 
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PRECIPITOUS FIELDS OF A CUMBERLAND MOUNTAIN FARM. 
Probably twenty northern railways have agents here buying what ties 
can be obtained. 
Kentucky has had a harvest of timber in these mountains, but it is almost 
concluded. What will the harvest be in these abrupt precipitous slopes a few 
years hence? 
The state cannot afford to have too large an area of its territory bared 
and eroded, and abandoned as not being worth the taxes. Yet it is fast 
coming to that point. Only the coal underlying, and the oil in places, to pro- 
duce an income. 
