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who ■t of a ihe 1 that'best noDg ords, a Idib ii9 : i can [ f aria ig-0 de-une,badevit-leane19 U)bave ' tbe rould t tbe com-iland tbnt t tli'e bnre-veral kins' vlteel ition. it is •e. bad dis-eave-prich. nest, cibly “tlie ;b na-xper-Ntere ncet-ivan-1 ad-i tbeCOU8-snut.[ions,i andit asto.findsdiateVl.it-iBstieistor,Tbe.ductT.udaye fol-ipon-oess: icngo ) Ua-wilb rticle is a eigbt s all •four and oats, ie of suits far-pray tliei. i tbe tellitecnIB Ofg 31 arkitingConway.The Culture of Pines.To Ihe Land Oitneri and all Public Spirited Cicmne of New Uampuhire.- The United States census of 1880 Informs us thot there are in tills state more than 410.000 acres of old turned out fields, (matures atfd Idle, unsightly waste lands, producing neither farm nor lorest crops. The amount of this was'e Is believed to bo Increasing. This land was covered with Jorest which the first settlers felled, and It was cropped or postured till it no louger paid for cultivation or fencing. What this lnnd now needs Is a.rotation crop of timber. Seeding these waste idle and unsightly acres to timber trees would surely secure, at least, three most desirable results, viz. :(1) an exceedingly valuable crop of timber; (2) a great Increase in the fertility of the soil; (3) a vast addition to their beauty and attractiveness to summer tourists and our own citizens.With a hundred thousand acres of fine white pine plantation parks with their grateful shade and beautiful pruned trunks holding high aloft ll.eir whispering emerald tops—the home of singing birds and chirping squirrels—cooling the atmosphere by absorbing the heat and filling the air with their health giving resinous aroma and carpeting the eurtlt by Clothing their feet spth the amber colored cushion of yielding leaves; and giving the most reliable surety for plethoric pocket b'aoks to their owners—I say witlt these parks of pine and of other timber uud nut trees, more of our sons and daughters will gladly remain at home, fewer of the old homesteads will be abandoned, more of those deserted will be reoccupied, greater the hosts Of guests at our summer resorts, and fnr happier the owners by tlinr lucteascd prosperity.When Germany's Bismark was weary and sick from ovctwork the famous physicians ordered the great chancellor to the pine woods as the best hospital and sanitarium in the world.Edmund llersey, the practical farmer and teacher of the agricultural students In Harvard University, found by experiment tlitit In some twenty or twenty-five years a growth of trees, pines I think? added so to the fertility of tlio soil, that It look somewhere from sixteen to thirty dollar’s worth of fertilizers per aere on the adjoining land of the same quality, to produce as good a crop as that upon which the trees had grown produced without any fertilizers.Augustus Piatt, Esq., a member of the Massachusetts board of agriculture, writes me that in the spring of 1850 he planted white pine seed on eight acres of very poor land, cut the trees in 1801 and sold them in box board logs, which brought him tit round numbers two thousand dollars. At this rate a hundred thousand acres of white pines on our waste lands would when forty years of age bring at the mill twenty-four trillions of dollars, which Is more titan one sixth of the assessed valuation of the real estate in this state In 1800(8141.740.710).A friend of mine has recently sold for two thousand dollars the shook uml boards which he sawed from rive acres of sapling pines about seventy-five years of ago. Augustus Pratt has five acres of pines from seed lie sowed in 1800 for which he would not take one thousand dollars. Besides the great amount cut out iii thinning 1 feel sure that I have mure rather than less thau at the rate of fifty thousand feet of excellent pine timber to the acre with nn average age, as shown by the annual rings, of about fifty years.Mr. Jewell, late of Winchester. N. H., A. Pratt, of North lllddleborouglt, Mass., the Shakers of Enfield, Conn., Prof. O. A. Wentworth and the uuderstgoed, of Exeter, have demonstrated that white pine can be grown by planting or sowing the seed where the trees arc to be grawn and thus saving the expunse of growing m nurseries and transplanting. Omar Pease, of the Enfield Shakers, sowed pine Bccd, as lie procured it for several years, till lie covered nearly two hundred acres of sandy barrens with thrifty pines.If my friends, the newspaper, magazine and official foresters, are right, the talus mid rivers will beltave a great deal better by reforesting these waste acres, nnd our farms will be mote productive and our watci powers much moro valuable. Gladly will we accept unexpected bless-
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North Conway White Mountain Reporter
North Conway, New Hampshire, US
Thu, Aug 19, 1897
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