, 1869-11-07
NEW ENGLAND BECOMING BAR
Rem,

"As tho late Coutoocpok Valley Fair, Joseph B.
dreas Of fa1ms in New Aanpsht.e had teen
a1A s9oHiS ., 1ooa @ % and huber. IN s,sse section
Of the town OF Warner, where formerly forty yoke
OF oxen were Kept, and from which twenty fa1ni-
Of oxen can now be fonnt. with hst hoases and
twelve old cellars. In the town in which he re-
sited one school district bad stn'ilct down 70
tEo families; aud slmllar state OF tolnEs could
be found ali over the State"
Ia response 70 this paragraph, the Troy Daily
~ fhc Principal cause is that hundreds OF so-
called farms are not and never we're farms The
men who Owned aud occupied the land have cut
land from which wood and timber axe cut = gen.
orally burned over. The sshes of The hnEnc.a
| brush and rood make good drtssu9 Of manure,
For lha space Of ten or fifteen Jears tne land will
yte.d good crops OF wheat, oat8 npd potatoes
Bu. The land IS 20. level, and the plea, lne sun.
| away lie ashes, he vegetable mould formed trom
| the leaves of the old forests, and the nne soil
leaving In nome cases coarse g1avel OF dls'nto~
! grated gran!se, and IN othcr8 only bare rocsA
t :" The river buttons or iuterra!ess OF the Con.
| necucnt River; tho MeYnrDac Mves, and all the
81 Sg 18TH HDfs 81 nss xss as Viz;
| OF the CONNECTICUT Hss forest OF pinea from
| Long Island Sound to the lake or the same name
timber Of every S,nd- We Know hundreds d
| acrts Of 1and-yes. Thousands Of acre4-ou which
plue trees, one hundred A"d nfty and two han.
ti1el feet In height, and rom three 70 etght fee
In diameter, stood almost one to the square rod
which were al, cut DOM and batned up TO oper
the soil Tor cultivation.
"1r t,soee trees were standing now, any oue. O
| them would be worth more than the present val1't
OF the 9cle on which hundred or mora u then
| stood. and An acre OF th0se trees would now bt
| worth more than hundred acres Of cultivated
land.
Anew Hampshire bug been stripped Of all 1t.
! timber. Within the last ten years tho locomotive
engines have burned UP more wood than hi
raDrp1ds are worth There IS not nSarle lani
euonph N New Hampshire 10 rRs1c the qusntlty o
vegetables aud cereals necessary for tho supper
! Of It's present population. The hills nud the mar
row valleys which have been stripped Of THEFT
woody rolhtnR- and laid bare 70 the frpsts 81 win
Ter, and the snns and ratns Of sunnucr. will be
t come stony md brtd wnstes lite whole provinces
IN the souih Of France. unless the forest ts ouct
more 'nyite'l y G1ssr tae'T nateatesl Z; !, ,v
quoIes! paragraph, lies in valley at the xessers
lIas: Of the great mountntn called Moonhlllock. l
| Is wholly m0untNnous town. TAe urst seitsr
By agrcu.nrc in ! small vay. = Their timaer. thss
! hutter and cheese, their pnfh, thten 10 bo%o7 Q
Portsmouth In tho winter, were exchanged 70
sugsr. mol1sse., ~, aAIi*aSa and other goods
! road 1fora Concord 10 naSefhih md north t
Montreal. has been bntlt through the torr
aud has 6evoured The forest With Mmoz
sometimes laJ oafu the nouutAi1A Their tins.
ID gone, their wood 10 gone their nelds nrr ba>te
by the son IN sumuer. and washed ty the rains c
| reputation ! The impoT ershment OF the lanf
and the decline Of population are not mJetcrJ
The taMe cBuEes have made other countries
de.sst: y EnIogs Aaa, %oa ~; A1, hns, @ sasfs u
crUwded With cIt1ea spd Villages, and which NJ
Dow utterly destitute Of Eegetsi,on, so that Kos
can h4ssijy crop subsistence The cause OF N
tesolation Ia found In denudln1 the land Of Il