Report of the Commissioners [and Appendices A to S], Volume 1C. Blackett Robinson, 1881 |
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Pagina 142 - ... or the planting of this or any other one sort to the neglect of other desirable varieties. Strong cuttings of this tree seldom fail to strike root at once in mellow soil, and will make a growth of from two to six feet the first season. It thrives in all kinds of soil, making as much wood in a given number of years as any other known sort, not even excepting the cotton wood, growing into a large tree, sometimes four feet in diameter.
Pagina 68 - To PRESERVE GREEN CURRANTS. — Currants may be kept fresh for a year or more, if they are gathered when green, separated from the stems, put into dry, clean junk bottles, and corked Very carefully, so as to exclude the air. They should be kept in a cool place in the cellar. CANDLES.— Very hard and durable candles are made in the following manner: Melt together ten ounces of mutton tallow, a quarter of an ounce of camphor, four ounces of beeswax, and two ounces of alum. Candles made of these materials...
Pagina 134 - Plant thickly and of divers kinds, so as to cover the ground promptly and choke out weeds and shrubs, with full purpose to thin and prune as circumstances shall dictate. Many farmers are averse to planting timber because they think nothing can be realized therefrom for the next twenty or thirty years, which is as long as they expect to live. But this is a grave miscalculation. Let us suppose a rocky, hilly pasture lot of ten or twenty acres, rudely scratched over as I have suggested, and thickly...
Pagina 142 - ... feet across. This variety when planted in groves, grows tall and almost perfectly straight. I have carefully computed the expense of raising ten acres of trees of this variety, and converting them into lumber, and find the entire cost not to exceed $10 per thousand feet.
Pagina 142 - ... forty dollars per acre, with interest upon this amount, together with expenses, computed as before, at six per cent, compound interest. I take ten acres in these estimates of growing artificial groves because it is desirable to have trees enough together, or in close proximity, that the cost of putting up and removing a saw mill would be but a trifle upon each thousand feet of lumber sawed.
Pagina 155 - A deciduous tree during the season when in foliage is constantly drawing from the earth and giving off from its leaves a considerable amount of moisture, and in some cases this amount is very great. This change of state from a fluid to a gaseous condition is a cooling process, and the air near the surface, being screened from the sun and from the winds, becomes by this means so humid that a rank, succulent vegetation springs up and thrives, which in an open field would wither and perish in an hour.
Pagina 135 - ... thenceforth a valuable crop of timber may be taken from that land ; for, if cut at the proper season, at least two thrifty sprouts will start from every stump ; and so that wood will yield a clear income each year while its best trees are steadily growing and maturing.
Pagina 250 - ... game, and all those delightful images of enjoyment, that so readily associate with the idea of the wild and boundless license of new regions; all that restless hope of finding in a new country, and in new views and combinations of things, something that we crave but have not,— I am ready to believe, from my own experience, and from what I have seen in the case of others, that this influence of imagination has no inconsiderable agency in producing emigration.
Pagina 138 - ... feet apart in the row. Now the best of them are twenty feet high and twelve inches in circumference, and for thinning out the rows I sell trees for more money than wheat would have brought, grown for these years, and I can continue to sell so until they are so large that I can take them for fire-wood, and I am growing a good crop of orchard grass between the rows. So that these...
Pagina 155 - It is a matter of common remark that our streams diminish as the woodlands are cleared away, so as to materially injure the manufacturing interests depending upon hydraulic power, and to require new sources of supply for our State canals and for the use of cities and large towns. Many streams once navigable are now entirely worthless for this use. " The mode in which this influence operates will be readily understood when we consider the effect of forests upon the humidity and temperature of the...