I:= 61,abc. HUNTINGDON, PA I From the N. Y. Tribune.) WHAT I KNOW OF FARMING, BY HORACE GREELEY CM ntErs-WOOD-LAND-FORESTS. I am not at all sontiMental—much less spooney—regarding the destrue- lion of trees. • Descended from several generations of timber cutters (for my paternal ancestors came f o Americsa. in 1640) and myself engaged for three years in land-clearing, I realize that trees exist for use rather than for or nament, and havo no mote scruple as to cutting timber in a forest than as to cutting grass in a meadow. Utility is the reason and end of all vegetable growth—of a hickory's no, less than a cornstalk's. I havo always considered "Woodman', spare that tree," just about . - . theinost _Mawkish bit of badly versi =fied prose in our language, and never could guess how it should touch the sensibilities of any one. Understand then, that I urge the planting of trees manly because I 'believe it. will pay,and the preservation, improvement, and extension, of forests, for precisely that reason. Yet.l am not insensible to the beau tyand grace lent by woods and groves, and 'clumps and rows of trees, to the (-landscape they diversify. I feel the force of Emerson's averment, that is its own excuse for being," and know that a homestead embower ed itr, and belted by, stately, graceful elms, maples, shruds and evergreens, is really' worth more, and will sell for more, than if it were naked field and meadow. I 'consider it one positive advantage (to 'balance many disadvan , tages) our rocky, hilly, rugged Eastern country that it will never, in all prob. ability, be so denuded of forests as the rich, acile prairies and swalos of the Gr ) ea'eValley may be. Our winds are less piercing, our tornadoes less - de structive, than those of the great west. I doubt whether there is another equal urea of the earth's surface whereon so .many kinds' of Valuable trees grow spontaneously: and rapidly, defying Viadicatien;askhinughout, Now Eng land and on either slope of the Alle ghenies, and this profusion of timber andieliage May well atone for, or may be fairly weighed against, many, deli ciencies and drawbacks. The 'Yankee, who has been accustomed to see trees spring up spontaneously wherever they were not kept down by ax, or plow, or scythe, and to cross running water ev. cry half mile of a Summer day's jour ney, may well be made homesick, by two thousand miles of naked, dusty, wind swept plains, whereon ho finds no water for_ fifty to a hundred miles, and knows it impossible to cut an ex. helve, much more an axle-tree, in the course of a wearying journey. No Eastern farmer ever realized the bles sedness of abundant and excellent wood and water until he had wander ed far from his boyhood's home. No one may yet be able fully to ex plain the inter-depondenceof these two blesings; but the fact remains. All over "the Plains" there is evidence that trees grew and flourished where none aro now found, and that springs and streams were then frequent and abiding where none now exist. A prominent citizen of Nevada, who ex plored southward from Austin to the Colorado, assured mo that his party travelled for days in the bed of what had once been a considerable river, but in which it was evident that no water had flowed for years. And I have heard that, since the Mormons have planted trees over considerable sections of Utah, rains in Summer are no longer rare, and Salt Lake evinces, by a• constant: though , moderate in crease of her volume of waters, that the equilibrium of rain-full with evapo rations in the Great Basin has been fully restored—or rather, that the rain fall is now taking the lead. I have a firm faith that all the great deserts of the Temperate and Torrid Zones will yet be reclaimed by irriga. tion and tree-planting. The bill which Congress did not pass, nor really con sider, 'whereby it was proposed, some years since, to give a section 'of the woodless - Public Lands remote from settlement to every one who in a sep arate township, would plant and cher ish a quar-section of choice forest-trees, ought to, have been passed—with mod ifications; Perhaps, but preserving the central idea. Mid ten thousand quar ter-sections, in so many different town ships of the Plains, been thus planted to timber ten to twenty years ago, and protected from fire and devastation till now, the value of those Plains for settlements would have been nearly or quite doubled. A capital mistake, it seems to me, is being made by some of the dairy far. mere of our own State. Ono who has a hundred acres of good soil, whereof twenty or thirty are wooded, cuts off his timber entirely, calculating that the additional grass that he may grow in its stead will pay for all the coal he needs for fuel, so that he will make a net gain of the time ho has hitherto devoted each Winterr to cutting and hauling wood. He does not consider how much his soil will lose in Summer moisture, bow his springs and runnels will be dried up, nor how the sweep of harsh winds will be intensified, by ha- ring his hill-tops and ravines to sun and breeze so utterly. In my deliber ate judgment, a farm of ono hundred acres will yield more feed, with far greater uniformity of product from year to year, if twenty acres of its ridge-crests, ravine sides, and rocky places, are thickly covered with tim ber, than if it be swept clean of trees and all devoted to grass. Hence, I in sist that the farmer who sweeps off his wood and resolves to depend on coal for fuel, hoping to increase permanent ly the product of his dairy, makes a sad miscalculation. Spain, Italy, and portions of Prance, are now suffering from the improvi dence that devoured their forests, leav ing the future to take care of itself. I presume the great empires of antiquity suffered from the same folly, though to a much greater extent. . The remains of now extinct races who formerly peo pled and tilled the central valleys of this continent, and especially the ter ritory- of Arizona, probably bear wit ness to a similar recklessness, which is paralleled by our fathers'and our own extermination of the magnificent for ests of While Pine which, barely a cen tury ago, covered so large a portion of the soil of our Northern States. Ver mont sold White Pine alnndantly to England through Canada` within my day : she is now 'supplying her own wants from Canada at a cost of not less than five times the price she sold for; and she will be paying still high er rates before the close of this-centu ry. I entreat our farmers not to pre serve every tree, good, bad, or indiffe rent, that may happen to bo growing on their lands—but, outside of the lim ited districts wherein the primitive fo rest must still be cut away in order that the land may be obtained for cul tivation, to plant and rear at least two better trees for every ono they may be impelled to cut down. How this may, in the average, be most judicious ly done, I will try to indicate in my next. IdII~Y~I~II{~II~! Cunningham & Carmon's, Corner of Railroad and Montgomery Sts HUNTINGDON, PA. 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