Glimpses of a land of beauty . ii-hest tops :,re covered with a deep rich loam. The lorest iirowth is of ^reat variety and verv valuable. The trees are laroe stand ^vell apart. There is no iiiiderliMish. On this tract stands the lar-est yellow treeyet discovered. At four feet from the -round it l>SI feet in circumference. Its first limb is 7.) feetirom the i^round and its full hei^iiit is 12,) feet. In summer the mitire tract is covered with a densoi:rewth of weds, so tall in places as to conceal the cattle^-rn/.m- anion- them. These weeds furnish ridi
Glimpses of a land of beauty . ii-hest tops :,re covered with a deep rich loam. The lorest iirowth is of ^reat variety and verv valuable. The trees are laroe stand ^vell apart. There is no iiiiderliMish. On this tract stands the lar-est yellow treeyet discovered. At four feet from the -round it l>SI feet in circumference. Its first limb is 7.) feetirom the i^round and its full hei^iiit is 12,) feet. In summer the mitire tract is covered with a densoi:rewth of weds, so tall in places as to conceal the cattle^-rn/.m- anion- them. These weeds furnish ridi six months of the year. Swine, runnim: at lar-e«»h1 huntinir their food, thrive all the vear and in thetail become very fat on the mast which falls oak, walnut, hickory and bMo,-], trees. Tlu>re are now cleared (,(» acres of ground, 80 o(which are m pasture, l>(» in and ten in crops,(irass-rows hiNuriantly, yieldin-the sec<,nd vear after m XSS^: I f^- i» :^ ?1«^^ ^.^<<Xv- •?3. KERSBROOK—THE BIO POPLAR —20— soodinj: two tons to the acre. Timothy has been foet hijih aod clover six feet. The soil ^^esof hu-e and excellent quality, also pota-oes and other root crops in abundance and yields a .o excellent crops of corn, rye, oate and evenM-hoat. Ihe apple and cherry hear abundantlv. Wildstrawberries. rasp)KM-ries,> blackberries and whortleber-ries iii-ow 111 profusion. The uniea,•^!-V^;^ ^- ^^i-^ =1 ishin,^ preserve ti,;Lkfann a! Here is the natural hab-^^ itat
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