Senate Doc. No. 84. 



Plate XLIX. 



(-■1) DESTRUCTION OF FOREST ON MOUNTAIN RIDGES FOR PASTURING PURPOSES. I See pp. 2(i, 57-59.) 



(B) CORN PLANTED BETWEEN GIRDLED TREES ON APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN RIDGES. iSee pp. 26, 57-59.) 



Many of these steep mountain fields are " cleared," cultivated, badlv washed, and abandoned, all within 

 less than a decade, and before the girdled trees have fallen to the ground. 



