The Republican journal., 1882-02-09
Wood and Wood Lots.

tNu eelin- Brother \. Thought
l4- step in and continue our
.s Lust week t0r few minutes. See
o- aye getting up Your wood. DO you
INST .-.sa. e5 pick out the poorer trees p
+"e. that depends upon circum-
stances n / don't care to have it grow
-aIu cut clean and pile the brush
Summer burn. and SOW the burnt spots
'. clover If the lot is for family use for
. coming time, 20 carefully through it
-j pick NIP all the down stuff. no matter
.w rotten, as ID all helps to make rub
a.s4 tOI the hor-pen and coW tleup; all
.Ie dead trees, all the old, large trees
-4lj alr going backward all the crooked
-lHf-eu trees that Will grow more and
MUre undesirable as they increase in size,
e.A such as stand in the way Of the de-
tcupmeut Of other and better trees. If
There IS not room for all let the "tittest
uF.Ee. This lot is TO be cared for in
t-.rrSpects, not as wild land to be left to
I.-r.t put us j permanent Improvement
~locE VI al kinds is to be kept out of it
i, carefully as from tie corn field"
"Wuld it not be better to cut clean
.a. LET il grow up again ~
] DON'T think So 1t is better to first
-o "ter the lot and take out the large
tters anless some are left for special pur-
poses. and then cut all trees as fast as
Toet become a foot or fifteen inches in
'aWe.er Wood OF this size is the most
pl"l.dule to use in all respects. 1t
Us M convenient size to handle, is easily
prepared is at the best as to quality, and
besides, there is no period of growth
When 1t gains so rapidly as between six
inches and foot through. \ careful
man with a steady team can go all over
lis Wood-lot with very little damage to
growing trees the roads, if cut with good
Judgment, doing very little harm"
How does your wood hold Out?'
20, there's wood enough, and in the
country, generally, it is gaining and will
continue to gain; and it ought to till
these dry, ledgy, barren hill tops are
covered with forests which will hold the
snow and thus irrigate the valleys, keep
ap the springs, repIenish the streams and
catch the summer clouds as they pass
over laden with moisture"
But there is a commonly received
opinion that wood is growing scarce, is
there not z"
~ es, but 1t is not 80 away from mark
e. With our warmer houses, more eco
homlcal burners and well filled wood
houses, not half the wood is consumed
mat there was sixty years ago Indeed,
put one thing is necessary to insure wood
ID abundance for all coming time, that is
TO keep stock from all lands where YOU
want wood to grow"
81 see yOq have plenty of dry wood
] suppose YOU think it economy to burn
seasoned fuel?n
Not only economy but comfort. NV
wife would sue for divorce if she did not
have plenty of dry wood that she could
get without going out of doors. And be-
sides, it requires very much less wood if
cut up and housed green and well cured
under cover, to run a fire. Then the fire
can be started quickly at any time and
will not go back upon the cook when
most needed. The whole matter of fuel
and its growth and preservation is one Of
very much more Importance than is
usually accorded to it."
How is it about timber trees, can any
thing be done in this direction?"
every much. We have many kinds of
wood now that are worth more for man
utactures of various kinds than for fuel.
White birch, poplar, hackmatack and