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H. 1. RUSSELL, Publisher, ‘ \ A FARM AND FIRESIDE JOURNAL. VOL. IX. _ \ (T. COOPERSTOWN, N. Y., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1886. M = a r - are farm gfipfifl man was driving his cows to pasture. Not | long,\ at the same time holding his Imuds‘1mnny were the rides taken by his ]()\’l'lyf.'\llgllflt of the same year, ure eum This mecting rice of waters sufliciently to have saved the- buindreds-of-mil agr | dunghters, Lucia and Marin, on -the favor- vas. the couse o£ permanent tion -by-th -~ __ _ ___disturb the peace of the family, and the! ~~~captain -It certainly being able to pass through the berd with Lubout one foot npart. . - § Of Farm Lira as ai. | CU\ wagon we entered. info. conversntion | -. We-lnstantly suspected it to be our horse. i “uglinnuub’u of Farm Life of Otden with the herd driver. - We enquired \how , We asked Mr. White'who we could ge Times, Stories, &¢,.«--No. 8. many kead there wereiplllcdrm’e.“ \Fif | go with us to the Beaver Meadow. ty head, sir,\ was the reply. | \'Who owns} could find no better guide Written expressly for Tit: Orsx‘do Fanxen, cus 2. BY It BakBm One of the interesting things of olden times was the military trainings. | 'The mil- itary spirit of the Revolution had contin- . med until the war of 1812, and from the ' close of that the military genius of the people did not decline much until the latter part of the decade of 1880, Every able bodied citizen between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, had to do military duty, either in an independent company, or else in the militia. Rifle companies were much more popu- Inc than the militia, which were styled the *'Aeodwood\ as-embodying all left after the best elements of society were enlisted into the uniformed companies. Military position was one of distinction, and much sought for, or perhaps we had better say seldom refused. | Many is the instance where the citizen soldier went through all the grades of office from fourth corporal to captain, and perhaps using up quite a term of years in making the ascent. - After the man had attained to the digni- ty of captain, it was the custom for a num- ber of the members of hiscompany to gather at some given rendezvous, and in a body in early morning hours go to his residence and than that boy, , team we had, after which Tom: refused to them?\ \General H-- iind myself, sir.\ * he knows every spot for miles around,\: work. by the side of any other horse we had. By titis time they bad some of them answered Mr. White, We obtained n htu-lwu bought one of the sume 'color, think- reached the gate and commenced going in- itern of Mr. White, and tying our horses ' ing he would be mmfuu‘mry to him, but to the pasture. We remarked that they |in bis barn, with the boy as our guide, / he would fight him likea tiger, MF, Chas. were \a very fine herd,-very splendid went a long ways through woods and , Hand, a neighbor living in Oneonta, called cows.\ \How many of then belong to ) swamp, over n cordaroy road, to the Beaver on us otie day and. wanted. to purchase! Manitobu was given it, by the courtesy of GeneraFH- ?\ we enquired, \Forty-nine | Meadow, being all the while delighted with | Tom. We told him of his peculiarities | the Northern Pacific railroad company. Its sir,\ was the ready reply. We thought of the vivid description given of the horse, how \ and advised him to take him home and try , NeXt heeling was held at the ngricultural that answer many times: thereafter. The be had bappered to discover him, and that him, and if satisfactory, named the sum | department in Washington. May, 1884. herd did belong to him and Genef@l, truly. he had just set down on the fence to tell ' for which he could have him. The papers read at thnt meeting were pub- He owned one, und General H-~- the other | Mr. White of his discovery as soon as h¢ - Ietook him home and harnessed him | lished by the government departments, and forty-nine. stopped milking, when we drove up to his with a horse he had, and Tom at onee| thus were extensively | circulated. The General H had a neighbor who pos- place. recognized him as his mate, in fact; Congress hold its fifth meeting at Saratoga sessed more physical strength than any man Ou nriving ut the Beaver Meadow we he was almost an' image of the one we had Springs in September of the same year. It we ever saw, We had heard of many of found a very high fence securely made, ; killed. Mr. Hund kept hint until he was held a three days' session, nnd its opening his feats, among which the following is one, [and were instantly met it it by our lost '1wp,,gy,fi\-(.’ and he still looked und neted {Address was given\ by its president, Com- About the year 1886 was noted as one Bleim'sc. He could hardly suftlciently e missioner Loring of the United States ag- very deep snow. Mr. R-- had been to Syracuse after a sleigh load of salt. In re- turning home be had to pass a place on the banks of the Onondign river called the \narrows.\ It is some miles below Cort- land village. It.was a difficult place for teams to pass under ordinary circumstances, but during that deep snmi', teamsters tried . to avoid meeting there if possible. Mr. R-- had already advanced into the place when a man. drove in from the oppo- site directioxb and \they met in the closest for that government in the person of R. ; W. Phipps-f Toronto. held at St. Puul, Minn., in August, 1888. It was well attended by members from sev- eral states and at its close, 'un excursion to Xpress like a young horse, and he then exchiunged He rubbed us him fora young«pan, by with his head, licked our hands, whinnered, of one hor his pleasure at seeing us. in the exchange. | gleston of the | department at Washington danced around and expressed his joy in an _ Mr, Gregory had a gray horse of the' Was then, aad is still the secretary of the jinumm'uhk' number of untics of his own. same age, and one day when Tom was over | forestry congress. Ourself, our father, a cousin in our em- | twenty, we happened to meet him (Mr.} ploy, and the boy guide formed our party. The night was dirk to blackness. After its adjournment, many of its mem- Gregory) in Mr, Ford'sstore. While talking | bers necompanied. by Dr, Hough, the gov- with him, both sitting near the door, Mr. [ernment forestry commissioner, - made a An examination showed that the horse Hand drove up with Tom, before his car-, trip into the | Adirondack regions in the had been saddled and whipped on his riage. \I wish Leould exchange uldgruypprlhuru part of this state. | The Ameri- flanks and shoulders so suvurcfy that he for a young horse like that,\ said Mr/| can Forestry congress held its next meeting « I was ridged all over. He had then been Gregory. When wetold him he was of lhthcplcmlwr 28 und 24, 1885, at Bos- 22 on- by-tae {ite bays. We kept them \until 4tllcy were government of the Canadian provinces up- 4 toi sixteen years old, when Bill, the hear one, | on the subject of forestry, and the mppoint- \You ; wis killed by a kick, by gne of another|ing of an able commissioner of forestry The third meeting of the congress was e-hundreds -which - have and The same is true of the head waters of the Missouri. | Itis notfoo lateto impart remedy { the increasing danger from that stream, as government. still owns .considerable of the doubtless, ns in the case of | the Ohio, pur» sue the policy of waste, instead of econ» omy. same ' course whic hus' rendered desert wastes the most noted portions of the old world, -| Arid uninhabitable deserts now mark many of the most thickly popu- the sites of their lurgest cities are now nearly unknown. Shall we in our fair [country repent their folly? .Many of the | castern natiomnbnve- within -the pust half | century made great efforts to check and ; remove by tree planting as far as possible ring the value | ricultural department. Dr. N. H Egg-TU“! evil effects produced by their rncestors, [and thus far with marked success, It is high time that our people should fully awaken 'to the importance of this rejoice at what is being done. More rige orous laws have. recently been passed in many states, for better protection against forest fires, - Others for plunting and pro- tecting trees in certain localities. - These things nugur well for the future, The will . be required for protection below, ~: lund about its various sources, but 'will . Wein our country are pursuing the lated places named in sacred history. Even subject, hisnotndnygousuon, Wetruly_ __ tied head and food with a strong rope bal- , same nge, and the horse his dunghters- used--ton, / heet # ter. The piece on his leg still remaining ' to ride so long before, be was. truly aston: | session of uncommon interest. . It was at- in the swollen flesh. - His head had evident- . ished, - ~ [tended by governors and - being upon the river side,] ly beenedemwn. within a foot of his fore _ WerACP Femember Mr. Gregory or his! muny stiles. Leta . haar ~ im the depth of snow deceiving him, as leg, und, in that condition left in the Mead-! bome, except With the most pleasant recol- I The last meeting of the congress was is noire enoug'fw soon ns his sleigh was out of the beifén ow, doubtless intending. to obtain. him at ' lections, as a happier: family, or @a more held at DePuniak Springs in Florida, Dec. awake a stone stutue if such a thing were | track, it overset and his barrels of salt roll- ‘ some future time. - Our search in every di- pleasant one sthan was his, nt: the time we! 16, 17 and 18, 1885. It was largely pt- possible, C ed eightcen or twenty feet down the bank. ' rection had prevented opportunity of time, never need exist. ' Buch officer nwakening occurred several \ i ; duri 1 1 - ._ | The man he met drove on. | spiriting him away, While engaged on Mr. Gregory's mill. ' officials of southern states contributing to r sens » P i : a stice Ne \nite 5 m j 3mm! . uring the sunsml), usf Ill“, t‘fmmng‘ We will tell the remainder of the story |_ He had knawed the halter in two, close the lite Justice Nelson of the United Btates ffs success, - 1‘139‘) ere lfvurrflterxs, and \if\, £8 / 8eNet |;, the language of our Informant. \I was | to his leg, and thus just. relieved his head, - Court, and the distinguished lawyer, Josh - [t will be seen that the matter is one of I]; F115\? of the ”113ml 1mm\; “fl“? driving down the fiver road when I saw / as its ends were still wet, - We opened the - Us A. Spencer of Utica, made us daily lls : no small interest, but its work is but just held at some convenient place, at which a general review would 'be had. 'These before ime in the road tn the narrows, the | fence und he followed us like n dog, being for several days, and i very pleas it ac- y’ commenced., a. fave tearm of my neighbor R-, | He was pick- | sure to keep his head close to my father's thiis begun with those 1115111»: Thesevere changes from heat to cold, general training\ days were attended by ing up his barrels of salt and carryhug them / arm, In time we with happy fnces, got | Stisbed. gentlemen. - Spencer, we believe, | the increasing and severity of winds, the all the people fur -and wide. Everybody in his hands before him, up the steep bank | safoly back to Mr. White's and after liber. Was. formerly a mechanic of same craft as protracted drouths, the failing springs, the with all their uncles, aunts {Ind wm‘tsrhfifl placing them on his sleigh, apparently | yljy compensating the lm‘y, pursued our: OUS, and a remarkably pleasant man, would attend those military displays. 45 ug easily as T could bad they been filled | homeward route, with light hearts, as we - We met him buta few times afte ually a compuny of nrtilery would form a with dry cobs. - I offered to help him, but | uf| greatly liked the hora: onr nequaintance with Judge Nelson: con- part, and it “Gulf! he lucky if the heaty he refused assistance, and I sit a short time! - 0p ”Jud” following we went to our Ub4cd during the remainder of his life. the place where held? unbroken in company iforsomo miles.\ Our inform- “0.x.“ had just the right qualifications ltnr . ‘pmducmg in our country, p is true “017 * h unt was a neighbor of Mr, R-, thieves, as no stranger could eateh him _ [A baber written by 1. Baker, and read before ' can not have a settled country, and at the | It would be hard to make one of the We put a new flume and wheels and | without shooting him, but he. would come 4\ M9! Land Horticultural afrflctlyz. (In llu;n;eu|l;,mmcfimc hnve it all forest, - It in equally | toin Of' tus Ida” \PTTPWIUIIKU \ die gears in a mill near the residence of this) to those with whom. he was aequainted at m3? Oneinta Junuary qith, 10th, and Hith' , true thit we can not have a habitable coun ! r r, eate » 3:18; ffigfiufilfixcfli‘1:1? ',,L|.dcl:,lllfl::[ljchzi \trong man in 1880, um} had an opportuni- cinll. (fu. nifitklflls _\-\.\]“1i‘“;\.i”“ \V; lioyud celled by any Inter feats of gustronomic l)\ to withess a feat of his superior strength, | that (inn ,M0 (n 1!‘j‘:(- vuu nc'n. x; in: Illllu skill - How much the appetite procurred We had frumed the bulk~l.1('n(l bent of the | a l'Jual'J pmlllm fnluhrg figiium'm fin-Infan— by military marches und evolutions had to | \CW Blume of very beavy timber and much | ow, where bunches of willow | were hun- do with the qualities of such dinners we | \\ - tpart of the murrows. | They joinfly tread entire neighborhood, if any lived near, e snow so us to pass, and did so, with volley after volley of musket or rifle discharges, It was called waking up-thes officials from tended, Governor Perry and muny state rward, DWL i apd small streams, the increase in many ' climatic'diseases, are all continual remin- ders of the great changes which the de-| ; struction of our forest nreas hnve, and ure, ! of the earth have tried the experiment, and its chief topics, - Nor lms: its interest been ' fuilure :uu{ (lvsnlmiun. mn‘rk aviary such at- | confined to our small area, for the leaven ‘ ‘lefl' We must {mumum a Just Prwxlr» of this important: subject hus extended. to' tion of forest nreu in ull our country, if we tion of our socigty forestry lias been one of When all was put together ready to | dant, and there the thief had tried to ride i 6 j | bi widently erly refuse , . R would escape baving it in time become un will not try to decide, {Ellyn some twenty men in the vicinity him, and he evide mil) 'ad vite rly refused every state in our union, and has drifted _ ll bn I]; ' tr, p e co t were invited to help us set it up. - Among {to move shed. We found 'several pla- 'r hor for | \ans uninbabitible waste. , Another long to be remembered nttrnc- ednvited to belp us set it uf #} 1 across our northern. frontier iuto Canada, j ; them was Mr, R--. - He stepped up to | ees where he had no doult kept turning tion of those tary dis ¢ s e h thn .c ; ever resell]: 73:11:11,251)\; 1211]??? “Gli ”I: ' the bent and took bold of one: corner as { aronnd with his rider until he had worn the even pno“, hsnrbthc or liflwrc'fll 1m: Sue the timber lay in position ready to rise, < the sod off ground in a circleof ten or twelve XY \¥ mised it up and down as if of cork. - We j feet dinmeter, Evidently thethicf could not gungerbo-gingerbread, «ix cents a card. R ‘ f . \ Right from the oven boys, walk up 1”Bluftcrwm‘d tried our strength in the same, make him go at sll. and bad spent the up; hop up, run up roli) l'lp lumllfl'c up ! way upon the bent wich no more impression night in a fruites attempt, and at day- . X S i i e in. ec i sen him down the river in the any way to get up, to buy this fine, . fresh, than if 1.1. hind been s mountain. | We could / light Inn-cl taken him do ' R I not stir it, - Mr., R--- was the most mus- | fmost of the to the Beaver new, gungerbe-gingerbread, only six cents 1 R ° hil , oun, a card, alx cents, six cents, six. ponce a card | UW\ Man we over suw, | Méadow - before. named, and left: him for | fective action in the matter is confined to a proved and cultivated Innds in the vicinity. boys. ® The Wu\ fl;u bo 1; untllmnn quite Cortland County, like many others at | another trial. very recent and short period in our nation's: Many a farm is now in a time of drouth, ald boys, Wonk? pon bi ;;L,mdin.y 1,0;in f that time, was serfously troubled by n gung |_ The diay before he was taken, a B06, MF higory, - As carly os 1681. William: Penn, , destitute of water, which would have M a e of horse thiaves, - While erecting the mill fooktum young man with a Tice as frr ns a\ hosccarcs; ras truly immaryel. Greatwas* i . E3 ' gingerbread we bave before named, for Dr. MeKorter, girl, by the nume of Mills, was around the - 6 ; ! I H ; i i I - a ere Among the military generals who used to ' \i\! tried their Inck on one of our hores, ; place and took his Illnlllil‘lll the hotel there, attend those general' musters was General \V ° 5% lime had three. A prir worked ' No doubt he was the thief, as be was nfter H- a man niomxm us from our present 2+ UPPOT Lisle, our home, and one we' wards arrested by the Sheriff of Ofsego memory must at the time we \trained\ drove for our own use. Our single horwe county for horse stealing, and was confined, ig. Needing shoeing, one Monday morning' we believe afterwards, in the jails. of both | to {828 massed severilt ws for | the are too positively proved to.admit of doubt. have been over sixty years of nge. _ He resid- hid A M i , 1485 to 1828, | ed in Cortland county and was an extensive ** left him at home and took in his place ' Schoharie and Schenectady. counties, and pre farmer for those times. - He wis ohlcpr ap 2 fne five-year-old, we think as handsome 'finally died in a - penitentiary: for | such through, aml with his white hair, clean horse as we ever saw. | He was mik ' thefts ao, shaven face, straight inflitary poise ofiiszed in the neighborhood and we had broken ' - In 1841, in the raily spriog, we repaired noble horse, made a fine appearance. - He ; him to ride and drive when three years old. 'a mill for Deacon Just ph Gilbert of Gil had a voice for command which could awake 399 purchased him. <bertsville, patting in a new wheel and the echo ring among the hills, and anflitary | He was a very knowing horse, and had gears and southward into Mexico, until the en- If we maintain forests upon our rough tire North American continent may be said. lands and hilisides, we will thus preserve to be awaking: to the: importance: and in-. the sources of the springs and brooks, and Huence of forestry, and fs effects upon At the same time such timbered lands the future good of its intiabitants. would by their growth give a continued ' The subject of forest influence has occu «gain of more value thin is possible in a pied the attention of farseeiog. men in our naked condition; and besides continually way, country since its first settlement. | But ef. , exert a beneficial influence upon the im- the founder of the state of Pennsylvania, unfailing supply if a grove of n few neres issued an ordiniance to. those who occupied | was set and protected above it« main and his linds, \'That one nere of forest must be ' best spriogs. | If such was of «ugar maple, proserved. for every. five. cleared,\ which it would serven threefold mission, Water- | ordinance dowbtless soon lost its force, after supply, augur, and the best of timber and ' Penn's doath Ournational c imgress from fuel. The effects and influence of forests servation of live onk, south, and in the So, too, is the fact that we nre rapidly ex. | Inst named year, appropriated ten thousand ' hnusting our lumber supply. - But that is dollars for purchase of such timbered lands: not its worst feature--We-ean find a sub In INH congrress preed Inwsdiscontinuing | stitute for wood, but what can we substi { timber agencies, and trafisferred all their «ute for climate? duties to the general land office and confer- The official figures of our government Tt was mpon the Butternut Creek req upon that office, the power to settle and . give for manufactured umber in the year trappings, which were really surpassing in A Will of his own. - We drove him to (in- near the villige of lhllx‘rtslvillv While compromise for public timber thefts. | In of 1889, 18.091,836,000 feet. - Shingles the richness and splendor. | cinatus and turned him into a large mead: . there, the same horse was nguin lflken from , 1869 congress pmssed an act to encourage aime your, ,046,000. Adfi to these One day it was our luck to be seated at| Ow in which were several other borses, di. a barn and down the south: side of: the ' the planting of trees in Nebrasks, which fimma the vast amount used in raflroad the dinner table ona general training day, | rectly opposite the mill. - On Wednesday . creek about two miles, one Saturday Bight. | has since been followed by numerous nets fl“. for charconl and for fuel, and then with the field officers, at which about the| morning he was missing. Knowing his , Our father was forrman fif the work, and for forest enlture in all the states and territor. include mf- amount consumed by forest following conversation took place. The | Wise freaks, we coveladed he had become we wont from (\Hi‘fl‘m‘k‘ on Saturday jes west of the Mis«issippi. In 187%-4.6-7 fires, 11an éf our minds mngzmpfl‘m sam table was lengthy, and upon one side was dissatisfied with his company and gone . at night to spend Runday and Monday fmh - various acts of congress were paseed to en I? Pau hm! a“??? g\ n- T sa seated the field officers, while the company | home. | The mail went down that morning , him. I: flht‘ 3-021)\ :’2;\1T\§m“;:'lifi.‘-gi fourngc the will 002,11\th in the tree: Hairpin y of on ruction of forest ecup f {and we wrote home that our horse Tom , arose and found the ho ess regions of the west. M0154”! figflfifipwn‘figsfifi‘mmimz. and if he was there to inform |_ made search and followed hisAlmClF in the in 1874 congre$s appointed a committee fliflrk somic of the large}- results. Only foot were some who were very anxious to | U% and send a boy up with the single horse | road down the creck ?hom iwo miles 10 _to examine the question of a forestry de- A t'vf‘hrm‘ljflw fliflood in the Ohfo and fill his position, of which fact the General | On Saturday for us to drive down. 'opposite a barn standing near the road, . partment to.be connected with the burenu KL: tributaries, fro-filmed the waters in the was well aware. | Those dinnerssometimest Towards night our father came up riding . Ad discovered that the horse had evident of agriculture in Washington, and to be . Mississippi as to ll‘lmlidflteig large Portion i | ® mand : farther, det its management. In 1876 Dr. F. B. of the staté of Mississippi and Louisiana, were somewhat lengthy, and were enliyen- | one horse and leading another and said {! refused to go any fa unde gemen . causing millions of dotlais los» in thes, ed with spicy conversation. Tom had not been seen. He lookcd in the barn aad found Tom . Hough of Lowville in this state, was ap- sing h oflars los in We then examin- The conversation amorig the field officers | ed and found be had been taken ott\ the ! standing quie:ly in a stall. and be welcom- pointed as a United States forest commis-, Sates, and along the valley of Ohio and Jand machinery neces@y. for successful a at this time was turned upon the subject , bars into the street. but we could tmick him ' ed father with a whinner the moment he sioner, and he ente: immediate?! mupoadn [ 3:52“: gildam lbemgbllv an}; to liken-l, ® - . \ ~ . : ridently been - the duties of the office, and in 1877 e , ua 5 y ext of promotion, some vacancy having occurr- no farther. We immediately started men ' opened the door | He had evidently h f suff a . | &, : B i his first forestry report to the agricultaoral | Sufferers. | Millions many times numbered: ed. Some one asked the General \how long | out in every direction, some seven in all. there buta short time. (hf! father was he fntended to hold his position,\ and drew. to scour the country for the lost horse, with | Just coming up the street with him as we department. _ In 1899 a perinanent forestry hand“ T. expended on _the_dikes! ; M : parsas search éifarrié'meyti‘efl‘ going out of the house where we burean in connection with the departmen, of the fakberei“ waters\ - to keep it with, and in a deliberate mahner, so as to give' could and return on Saturday. We, our boarded. we having slept late that Sgbbath of agriculture, was established and became in bonds. Milone will be annmally rc- its full effect: \I have a fine mare on my | self, rethained at our work N . - , farm with foal by the celebrated horse! Satardsy afternoon Guzman came in, ; find who took him, but were, by enquiry, , intervening years, between 18g “3d 1830, raga“. We as people have for the past Ranger, when that colt becomes so old a ; bat all had fafted to obtain any clew of the | satisfied that the man in whose barn he was ? many moves had bflflfm-Bdebymdxfidwxbfi gram been opening the floods-5:53 horse as to beunsble to do railitary service. lost horse. Crestfalien and dispirited af found had no knowledge of the matter. We and states, taking eetion of some kind ap. into that mighty river at one end, and. If I can get no other, T then possibly may | ter paying our scouts, westarted for home. do nos know a« he ever knew of the horse , on thisimportant question, and much infor. | the time, toiling and expending | think resigning my-cffice,\. Some mile or two below Cincinatus lived a bangsbfmd<34nahflymfirfingwm’?xfin?mponm=mb§mmmm to sams to confine & at the other. fingers} Workmanflzoecas'wsfsmmWhfiqm whom we were | he wes taken from it. Wemerméemyiummkredsmmgmepwpig. . Most of szhmrytotbew ig which primpted it, and | acquainted, and \he wasengaged milking | nofse about ihe matter. thinking zo good | a wasin the s fhat out horse bad been twicestolon ard } now only six years ald. the golf of Mexico. such action wasin the states westof the Oo furnish To April M1882, the first gonerat meeting for the forming of an \Americas i’m-e'xlzgyI We zd the winter before exchanged aur congress\ was held aw“. THe}to bave a £5 C single hore for a match-to Tom, and nimmmwmamw tars. worth thad T W better team than the pair never | dome Instant five daye. A perosnentorpim {eroond :O0k% To the fall of 1841 we built. oter a tail for | Hration was formed, and another resting (at Ther aterees, norn Poets would dont: Stephen Gregory of Cocpertoenm, sedicailed to mest in Montreal, Consis, infleafer etthé of General | (he pretties red horas E ever meq eme fust cau mille aged Gfe, and be Kad a rope halter ea Hirt so m s i~+ f - ' morning. We never made any effort to a fixture ofour government. During these quired for such parpose forall thues to inga good crop of potatnes I“ athern-states-now * possopr-tire-mmichy part jof the forest lunds in our country. In 12... many places thu} aro-glaughtering. them -- , re- ; with the same recklgsgnces as did.our fath-. ers. 'They see no value, excopt-in their destruction. . Pine trees not near streams where the logs epuld be easily floated had no vistue in Florida last spring. ('They were Toftcn given away for the removing. In our opinion a more serious loss than that of those tall fine. pines will speedily ' follow their rupid removal. - We are con- ffidcm that unless at least onc-thirdof them {ure preserved and those properly distribut- [ed over the improved portions of the land, i the frost belt will be extended southward shrinkage of rivers; the drying up of brooks | 49 \* to greatly cripple, if not destroy, the i most profitable industrics of thit pros- perous state. It would be exceeding strange if that state should escape climatic influences by removing its tall forests, which no other country underlike circum- stances lias been able tu nvoid. This ques- tion of forestry is one which should alike demand - the attention - of a 1 «try without some forests, | Many | portions [PMinthropists, . und political economists, Ladies and gentlemen; From the: forma.\ \\? until its importance is Tully understood by the public mind, andt so enlightened that a present dollar would. not be allowed to destroy hundreds, which by a different course would continue to flow in, to enrich all future generations, What avails it, if we leave to our pos- terity good Jaws, noble institutions of learn- ing, n free government, thousands of miles of- telegraphs aod ndiro:ds, mills, fur- naces and manufnctories, if we at the same time transmit to them a naked, de- nuded country, i bleak landscape, a barren, unproductive soil, waterless,\ treclesw and desolate. - Such would be the result, if we continuc in the future the policy of the past. - Let no citizen think to excuse him- ~stlf in This or Kindred: matters. Rociety ln but on nggregution of individuals and as such they nre answerable for all tolerated civil errors, | The world is cither better or worse for our having. had a place in it. If worse, we had better have been left out. If better we have filled part of our miss fon, and added to the general good. The grout question is with us, whether we shall improve the moral and physical con- . ditions of our people and our country, or whether we shall try to enrich ourselves by robbing ih advance our pasterity. - Let us give the matter due considemtion and act in such manner as shall be for the best benefit of all our race. -- -@44 -o - Cax rr oe Doxr.-Some people main- tain that farnters can only make money by cultivating hops; and now that hops are \off\ there is no money in farming. A Triend who is well known, but who refus= es to allow his name in print, gave us his experience in farming without bops, Nine- teen years ago be married. He bad $1,500 in money. He \worked out\ two years; and then purchased a form. He has re- ceived no gifts. | Hepow owns land that costs $10,000. He bas out on improve ments which cost $4,800. He has stock farming on 210 acres. He bas no debts, He never cultivated & bop, and, 1 r have been reached by mesus of Onblestit} tivating his Jsods a+e C The farmer who would sacred Pn Fake Ste has whs fore:
