Litchfield enquirer., 1842-01-27
CTTTING WOOD AND TIMBER.

Every good farmer Ill the interior will, before the spring opens, get out and work up his fuel for year, or at least for a greater part of the year. It has been dis puted question whether it is best to cut clean in the wood lot as far as you go, or to select here and there the decaying trees and such as have done growing. The harm done to surrounding young trees by the fall of large one upon them; the bending and trampling the young and vigorous shoots when going through the lots in various di- rections with the team, and the greater la Dor required to obtain given number of cords, are all reasons m favor of making clean work And this course is to be pre- ferrcd where wood is abundant. But where it is scarce, the farmer, if he can contrive to pick out trees that will never grow more, and this pithouI doing much harm to young trees may find if for his interest to spare all such trees as are making wood fast from year to year. This certainly is the best course, if he looks forward not more than twenty or five and twenty years. But if he can look forward for more than quarter of century, and consult the interests of the next generation, perhaps he will give them a better growth, by cutting all as he goes now, and letting trees come up which shall be uniform in age, and which may ap- proach uniformity i'll size and maturity when it shall next be found advisable to clear the same land.
 Much of the farmers summer fuel ol the seaboard, consists of trimmings of his or chard, the toppings of his willows, &c.- Economy in the mere expense ot collecting and cutting up this kind of fueL will require the farmer to trim his trees Ill mld winter, and have all the brush chopped up before the hurrying work of spring comes on.
 D. ., f0 ho o proper time to trim an orchard than the spring and early summer, so that there is reason for delay. Which of these reasons should be allowed to prevail, may depend much upon the worth and condition of the trees from which branches are to be taken. If there be on the place forest trees or aged fruit trees, from which but little Ii any thing but fuel is ever expected, no great harm can be done by trimming these at the most leisure season, and working up the limbs thus obtained while the winter affords leisure for doing such work; but healthy and valuable fruit trees should not be prun- ed until the season is near at which the wounds will heal most speedily. Get up, while winter lasts, as much of your wood and brush as you can, without harm to the orchard.
 Loafer's Soliloquy.-Among the dry, quaint md philosophical scenes with which MT. Meals recent volumes of "Charcoal Sketch es' abounds, we think the following soliioquy of loafer who had been s!eigh-riding and got split is inimitable:
 dts a mans natur, 1 believe, and we can't help it, no how. As for me, wish was pig; there's some sense in being pig wot's fat. Pigs don't have to speculate and bust; pigs never go sleighing, quarrel with their daddies-in-law wot was to be, get into sprees, and make tarnal fools of themselves. Pigs is decent behaved people, and good citizens, though they ain't got no vote. And then they hav'nt got no old clothes to put on of cold mornings, when they get up; they don't have to be Jarnin' and patchin' their own pants; they don't wear old hats on their heads, nor have they to ask people for lem. cold wittals is plenty for pigs. My eyes! if I was jolly fat pig, belonging to respecta- bie people, it would be tantamount to noth- ing with me, who was President. Who ev- CT seed one pig sittn on cold curbstone. rubbin' another pigs head wot got chucked out ofa sleigh! Pigs has too much sense to be catched ridin', if so be as they can help it. I wish was one, and out of this scrape. It's true pigs has their troubles like humans; constable's catch 'em; dogs bite lem; and pigs is sometimes 6one over suckers as men. But pigs never runs their own noses into scrapes, coaxing themselves to believe it's fun, as we do. I never see a pig go the whole hog in my life, sept on rum cherries. ->,-@x,D.~r, x,r>uyn 0xxyNr MrNrIaky