The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-08-11

oh PANoChht anu aOOdh dc ndAh Sdh bC
made by selling the timber for fuel
or burning it into charcoal and sell
ing that, so the best of the trees ow-
ing to the fact that they can be
worked into either fuel or charcoal |
more easily than the others can, are
the ones that are selected and cut, so
that while so large a part of the land |
is in timber, no great amount of good |
building material could be had. The |
oaks and hickories are as a rule, |
young, rapid growing and tough, and
are valuable for all purposes, for
which such timber is required, as
well as for fuel. Most all the larger
oaks have been cut for railroad ties.
less as any timber that grows. Cy-
press makes very excellent shingle,
| and Is the timber chiefly used here
for that purpose. This is the home
of the red-cedar-it has been. still is
and with care might ever be, one of
our most valuable trees, as the wood
will far outlast any other we can
grow. / have, on my farm, cedar fence
posts that were set in 1855, that are
still good, and have been told that
there are posts, that have been down
sixty years and are still good. But
while they are springing up every
year in great numbers. no care, as a
rule, is taken of them, and thousands
of them are ruthlessly destroyed.
Many are cut too soon before they
have grown enough red or heart wood
to make frst-class posts. Many are
allowed to be crowded out by other
nearly or quite worthless trees. If a
man wants to drive once through a
. wood and one of them Is in his way
it is cut and thrown aside-if ii
stands, where he wants to fall an
other tree, the other is felled and the
| cedar destroyed, or brush from other
| trees is piled against it, the brush is
5 burned and the ceder mon est" II
, they were properly cared for and al
r lowed to grow twenty or thirty years
: the owner would have something
valuable.
III / have said that in my opinion
fully one-half of the area in thii
; Iregion Is in timber, much of it, how
b lever, would in the north be denomi
mated brush. Most of the land has a
r some time been cultivated for awhile
t and then left to return to forest
which 1t soon does, the young tree
c coming up. SO thick that in man.
Iplaces, it would puzzle a rabbit to ge
g through.
Not all the cleared and is in con
lstant cultivation, or in growing any
thing of use. The common metho
of procedure is to pillow a piece o
Hand, plant it to something, as lon
IS as it will produce crop that seem
n to pay, and then abandon il to th'
d weeds and briers, or anything els
It that may spring up upon it. Will
l. in this state, such land produces notf
e ing of value, as there is little OF n
O pasturage, and If there were the land
!. are nearly all unfenced. Stock is no
lowed to run at large, and compare
S lively very few animals are kept-th
e only exception is dogs-dogs, every
e body must and does have. AS a rule
$ the poorer a man is, the more dog
J. he has. Hounds are the most 4
t fashion. Many of them are so lear
II that they have to prop, to do goo
LOB of barking-yet day and nigh
IS they are ION the CO." seeking wha
Z they may devour. They are said to b
It kept for hunting, yet, with the excer
IT tion of rabbits, there is very little i
v the way of game ehereabouts. However
s let half a dozen men with guns and a
5. many or twice as many dogs, get on
e and start a rabbit or two, and the
is can make lots of noise. If you wan
IS the friendship and good will of
E ISoutherner, you must be very care
is full how you treat his dog. You ma
a slight or misuse him or his family. G
W speak disparagingly of any of HI
il friends, and possibly he might foi
It give you, but if you scold or kick b
n, dog, (no difference what he is doing
IT you will never have forgiveness
N neither in this administration nor
a that which is to come. The sam
ID crops that are grown in Logan cour
ty, Ohio, can be and are grow
g here and, with success when prope
lcare is used. Kentucky blu
- grass, though grown to some exter
- does not do as well as with you, OWN
probably to the fact that this is ne
l., a limestone region. Its. with you, COZ
slant companion, white clover, doe
well here, as all clovers do. Timoth,
herd grass, orchard grass and othe
!, kinds of grass grow and do well her,
n In addition to these we have the ia
!. famed Bermuda grass, the old tim
y plague and detestation of the Soutf
y ton or sugar, and the constant ammo,
ance of the gardeners and true
- Igrowers of Virginia. While it ha
y one good quality, that of CROWN
and affording pasture in the hotties
and dryest weather that comes, thi
= is offset by so many decidedly ba
Nc qualities, that after two summer
: experience with it. am constraine
>. to vote it a nuisance. But we hav
70 it and l suppose always will. l hav
q said that we can raise profitably a
- the crops that you raise in Loga
a. county; we also raise some that yo
, do not grow at all, or grow on a sma
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