Show the best time to cut timber ber I 1 we e ZI aeiful aei fud dan an experienced farmer re remark mark a fe few ud year f a av sago c 0 that hickory cut at the right time wo would make a more durable fence than the best chestnut cut as is usual with farmers in early spring he appealed to stubborn facts in support of his theory and we find in the patent office report the following statement from william painter of Concord concordville ville pennsylvania which c confirms s the theory we commend the matter to our oar agricultural readers during u experience of of more than forty years as a plain practical farmer I 1 have taken much interest in ascertaining 0 the best season for felling timber and I 1 now state with confidence that fencing timber such as all kinds of oak chestnut red hickory and walnut cut from the middle of july to the last of august will last moie more than twice as long as when out cut in the win winter t or or common barking time in spring for instance cut a dappling sap pling say ray five or six inches in diameter for a lever lever in the month of august augis wint and another of similar quality or size in winter er or spring I 1 know the first farst if stripped of its bark which at the present time runs wll wg ll it will raise as a lever at least leas twice the weight that can be raised by the la latter ler another great advantage derived from felling timber in the last running of the sap the time above specified is that it is neither subject to dry rot nor to baiao being injured by worms while oak cut at this seas season 0 n if kept off the ground will season through two feet in diameter and remain perfectly sound many years whereas if cut in winter or spring it will be perfectly sap rotten in two years for ship building and other purposes where great expense is is incurred in construction the immense immense advantage of preparing the timbers at the proper seasons must be oe evident to all I 1 have no doubt a ship built of timber cut between the middle of july and the last of august angust would last nearly twice as long lone as one built of ti timber r aber eat cut at the usual time and aid wo would bear infinitely more moreon of hird hard usage as the timbes timbers season season more perfectly and are harder A few years since one of the large government ships b built ailt i in philadelphia of the very best mat material but several years in in construction when ordered to be finished and launched was found upon inspection to be almost entirely worthless in in many of the timbers tho though aoh g kept under cover from dry rot in all my building for many years vast past with large timbers of or other kind ot of oak this has never occurred nor are they subject to be worm eaten even fire wood out cut at the proper season is is worth from thirty to si sixty axy t p per e r oe cent nt more than when cut i ir in the spring or winter mr emerson Emer soa in his report on the trees anc shrubs of massachusetts asserts that the so f in maple 1 1 aiple out cut in september is three times more last tag b than tha n ash or walnut cut in the winter if there be any truth in the above observe tiong tion they are worthy the attention of the citi zens of this territory Terri territory tor y where timber is and dear and it is well worthy the of every man who has the opportunity to kee a journal of his observations and see if w cannot discover the remedy for the dry rot anc wo worm rm eating propensity that seems to exist in ii some of the mountain timbers ed news |