Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-21
SOLID TURNPIKES

paved with the hardest-procurabIe
stone. The French take great pains
with their roads, and keep them
carefully repaired. Ride out into
the country in any direction, from
any city, and you are always sure of
finding smooth, solid, clean road.
At intervals of a mile or two will be
found road-menders, breaking stone
or repairing spots needing it. All
along, at short distances apart, may
be seen piles of "Macadam' on the
road-sides, ready for. use when re-
quired. Where the country is hilly
or the ground uneven, the track of
the road is crooked, but runs where
the easiest grade can be found.
WHEREVER A TREE CAN BE PLANTED
without injury to grain-crops, there
it will be found. Along the sides of
the road, along lanes leading into
farms, along the banks of brooks or
streams of any size, will be found
beautiful rows OF trees of different
kinds. Wherever there is patch
or strip of ground not arabic or fit
for vine or grass, it is sure to be
planted with trees, unless it be ma
ked rock. The northern mountain
slopes are covered with forest-trees
where it is possible to grow them ;
and the same is true of the steep
kill-sides. The sunny sides of all
acclivities are kept for the growth
of grapes, mulberry, olive, peach,
and other valuable trees; but the
shady sides are given to the fire
wood trees. The willow is grown
on the wet or low lands, for basket
making and for fuel. Trees are en-
couraged to produce large tops and
many branches; and these are clip
ped off for fuel as regularly and sys-
tematicaHy as sheep are shorn in
Wisconsin for their wool. The Lom-
hardy poplar is largely grown for
the sake of the biennial or the trien-
nial crop of limbs they produce; and
so of many other varieties of trees.
In addition to the trees grown by
the farmers for fuel, shade, and orna-
ment, there are many large forests
owned by the Government, i'll which
wood is produced for citv-consump-
ton. There are several of those for
ests in the vicinity of Paris, contain
ing each from 10, 1000 to $4,000 acres,
aud which have been carefully pre-.
served as state timber-lands for cen
turies. Paris is mainly supplied with
fuel from those forests.
They are full of deer, hares, and
other game.
MANURE
is collected and saved with as much
care in France as anything else. AL
the leaves of the trees are carefully
raked together and conveyed to the
stable-yards to assist in forming com.
post-heaps, to be applied in the pro,
duction of crops. Lime and gypsum
are also largely used where procura.
BILE; and all manures and night-soils oi
the cities, as well as bones and blood
Of slaughtered animals, are carted
off into the country, and prepared
for the use e-ef the fields and gardens
In short, no substance which will
help the land, and increase the
growth of vegetation, but is utilized
in France. The English, l know
are in the habit of saying that the
farming of France is inferior to thai
of Great Britain. And the reason
they assign is, that the land is cuj
up into small free-holds, and not SC
scientifically cultivated rs IN Eng
land, where the farms are large ant
not owned by the cultivator. Ii 5
true that more machinery is employ
ed on English farms, and that th'
blowing is deeper, because four o
six horses or steam power is used I,
subsoil-plow; and more guano is inn
ported, and more manure is applied
because there are a larger propoa
tion of cattle to produce it to n Civ
en- area than lp, France; but, for al
these, the farming in England is n
better than in France, and
! NOTHING LIKE AS TASTY AND NEAT,