Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-10-06
DtM1StrroS OF THE FOREST. Farmer T., living

DtM1ytT1oN OF TIE FoREsr-Farner T., living
tot over TWENTY-FIVE miles from Rochester, hao $
magnificent grove of sugar NAPLES, part OF VINCE
he wasaccustomedto tap regularly, and manufacture
theretrom the susar Consumed in his tamlv. 5''E
this manufacture involved good deal OF hard
lahor sugar went down i'll prince, ard tue wages
of hired he p went up, wood and timber heca'1'c
an important item of traffic and all kinds OF farm
produce gradually the facilities Of transpGt
tation increased
Farmer I. was quite an expert in figures, as we'd
rs a shrewd manager on the farm, so one day he
solved problem on the following data, to wit-ti,t
amount of cash bis sugar orchard would bring him,
after deducting all the expense of clearing and
fencing the land and delivering the wood and timbst
in the market After carefully working out the
problem he found to his SURPRISE that the interest
of this sum would buy all the sugar TOR his family,
save him the labor of tapping and boiling, and
give him the use of bis fields for the raising ct
crops. Without more ado he set gang Of chop
pers remorseeSsly to work, and one OF The nos.
magnificent forests of maple ever seen on Ontario
county (where it was locatedl or any other was
speedily converted into cordwood.
Farmer I. made money by the operation, al
though he was well enough off before. He has
raised, and still raises excellent crops upon those
fields, but his form is scant of fencing and
frewood and if an attempt commenced to-day
to raise forest upon that farm commensurate to
its wants as the residence of man of taste and
berality his chdren's children would be forgotten
in their graves before the could lift their headf
to half the attitude Of those so Internationally
sacrificed A brick and mortar structure worth q
hundred thousand dollars can be built in single
season; but if a man desires tree two centurie5
old, he must take two centuries to grow it. :.
The demand of civilization upon the forest 1or
fuel and timber is enormous and far beyond its
capacity to furnish indefinitely. Nature must have
season of rest and half dozen of centuries to
renew her gigantic decorations The dust of
persisted cities must feed its roots for ages ere
magnificent forest cover up the unsightly ruins
There is a new feature just now being developed
in the call for timber, that ought not to be lost
sight of or ignored, and it is this Heretofore ths
broad belt of forest that extends north and SOUTH
parallel with the Atlantic coast and before it was
encroached upon, stretched east and west 1900
miles, has been open to market only on the eastern
side; but now the broad and comparatively tree
less prairies of Kansas and Nebraska to say nothing
of the new States nearer home, must be supplied.
This double demand is accelerating the previous
rapid mmolation of the forest. The axe and the
saw are eating their way towards the centre from
both sides, and consequently doubling the destrucs
ton. Far-seeing will guard their forests as
among the most valuable treasures of their farms;
and not permit dimnution beyond the point where
natural growth will keep up sufficient supply, at
least for their own use.