1809] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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In the Lumber Regions. 
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The great and increasing demand for lumber 
each year sends the lumbermen further into the 
will allow of only a brief outline of the opera- 
tions. The land is first explored, or " pro- 
spected," as the miners say. Good timber 
must be uot only abundant, but accessible, and 
which consists of a large log house for the men 
and hovels for the cattle. These logging camps 
are more or less carefully prepared, and our 
artist has shown one of the better sort. As we 
Fig. 1. — rue loggers' cami-. 
wilderness, and whoever would visit a logging 
camp, and enjoy the hospitality and novel life 
of its inmates, must now go along distance from 
the sea-board. One of our artists, who passed a 
sufficiently near a stream to allow of its being 
taken out after it has been cut. Many a noble 
pine yet standing owes its existence to the fact 
that it is located where its fallen trunk could 
.tig. ~. — FELLING AND SAWING. 
have seen them, the door and a hole in the roof 
were the only openings, that in the roof serving 
to let iu light, and for the exit of smoke. 
Within, the camp fire occupies the center of the 
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Fig. 3. — LOADING TUE SLED. 
portion of last winter in the picturesque por- 
tions of Northern Maine, has furnished us with 
several spirited sketches taken in the lumber 
region, which are here <riven. Lumbering is an 
uot be readily moved to the banks of a stream. 
The scene of operations being fixed upon, an 
advance party start for the place in October 
with supplies to last them for a short time. 
SBHES^ —-—7---- -7^"^ 
Fig. 4.— ON TUE DRIVE. 
building, and on each side are beds made of 
hemlock boughs, with the feet towards the fire. 
If the party is to be a large one, rude bunks are 
made, one above another. The advance party 
b. — THE LUSLUEU SUU'. 
occupation which requires capital and organized 
labor ; and while the general features are every- 
where the same, its details are modified by the 
laws and customs of different States. Space 
They make the journey sometimes by boat, but 
often on foot after they get beyond the reach of 
roads, packing their provisions and "traps" 
upon their backs. This party prepare a camp, 
also make roads on which to haul the timber 
to the river, by cutting down undergrowth, 
bridging over swampy places with logs, and in 
other ways constructing such roads that a 
