The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-11-11
A Plea For the Beech frees.

EDITOR HERALD The time he's
come WHEN the honest countryman
feiIs his trees and gets ready MS
store OF Writer wood; and lEf tht
sake Of the pigs, turkeys, biIdS ana
souirreIs-tO cay nothing Of their
ui@ and profit to mani feel like
playing the champion for tie D-ech
tree.
never see Il load OF beech WOO,
anywhere, that L do not feel that
nature is robbed to no pun pose. a
beech-Iut bearing, food supplying
tree has been :hOughties SLY ntied 10
be used as fuel, when su&ar-tba'
NAV staI q Tor centuries anu NOT prom
n!an or beast ana viii make just IS
uogG firewood-is allowed to stand
cumberer OF the soil; II cOnIam!n3toF
of PASTURES in the early spTiug time
| bv the springing up of the nyri"us
OF winged SET ds that fly to every
nook in which they can take roo
| Films, IynHs and hackberr "a also
make lust as good iirew"od winch
! seasoned, AID never BE- ar any mas
vet YOU see plenty of the aDo'e
! Standing in wood lots wei be-
decl1ed with be CHI stun ps.
Why such IhOughtlessness? An
all Wi, e Providence Who p aimed t"is
wcrld aud inhabited 1t with beasts
and creeping thinga, also arranged
t. have SAID things led without
stint. Nut bearing trees nave
always in large nlr&sure Iur-
uished the winter supplies OF villa
animals from bears TO ground tquir-
reIs; from the handsome wild turhey
| to the wOOdPecker. From NOR
al stand point, has man, the lo1d OF
ere alton, any right to thus ruthl' ssly
! and u.elessiy rob these Inno-
ceEt beings, which God has MADE Oh
their winter supplies.
As pr, Of that ii is utter thought
le.sncsS, [ have never seen man
! who could show a single pol: l IL
favor of "a sugar tree against 4 lie ca,
yet they go along from yearTsssNss .Aesf
aud cut beech trees, leaving tnt
other DarIen tIe' standing.
take the ground that there Is al
ready mole land cleared than IL tai en-
| care of, but these lines are int ndtd
for lie farmer who has Ilere oil
wood land ANA expects il to T,m.'ih Il
| wood lot always.
), me people argue against mast
- fed hogs tia. they do 10. bhlg a.
; much On the market. Admitting
, they sell Tor iess, still theIe lie no (
l profit in them than i'll C!!e corn 1ed.
In the mast fed it 10 nearly al prof
in many cases with the corn led,
there is 40 pre- tit ut all. 1T is claimed
l bv MANY that mast led meat / hoi
good. / have hal little 10 do VITA
oak, AID let that pass; but say
positively that the best meat L ever
, saw WAS made on Leech mast ana
corn led two weeks; ami the pHcoi'
to day, November 4th, is as p cay
> ana as finn rs any | ever saw:
Ii j. claimed also that cholera al
J, WHY'S follows u i,e IVY mast crop. /
ha5 never /, OWED it on This I'iac'
: but once in twenty-five years an"
l then 1t was brought OK Ihc pace.
|; has been SAID that i'll Engihhu
ep.currs fatien their turkeyn on wal
, uur. to give the meat line flavor.
I never ate any walnut favored TURKEY
, iut / AIu very fOnd uG that meat an
: have eaten Il greaC deal Il turkey -
I my dav, and tie De>t turkey that
( ever ate, and turkey that - ui"'y'
u good, is the turkey fattened on beech
( nuts; and these it finds itself With NJ
> expense to man.
: The bYech puts on this farm las
t fill and winter fattened twen'y-th'e e
: hrga-eXceut two weeks IN coz
II aud kept siXty-live Pigs and shoats II
= god order without any corn, u"t;
t The bio snow in March; made ou
), hens lay and our turkey the lafgeSt
= ever saw. The beech nut crop 0'e
not mature every year. Neltbe r q /
any kind Of crop. When II does
Jheu | am in for hogs aud turkt y
and for the beech tee forever.
, Yours, ;. w. WAKEFIELD