An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles . encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 108 HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. Part 1. entrap by dogs and snar
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles . encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 108 HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. Part 1. entrap by dogs and snares those animals whose skins are used as furs, and especially the sable. Next to the latter animal, the grey squirrel is the most valuable ; but foxes, mar- tins, fish, otters, bears, wolves, lynxes, gluttons, ferrets, polecats, and a variety of others, are taken for their skins by the hunters, who pay a rent or tribute to government in sable skins, or in other furs regulated by the value of those. 680. The forests of Russia are least abundant in the southern districts ; but the cold region may, like Poland, be described as one entire forest with extensive glades. Forests of pine-leaved trees ( or needle-leaved trees, as the German expression is) are chiefly indigenous in the very cold and cold regions. These include the spruce fir, the wild, and black pine, and the Siberian cedar or stone pine (Pinus Cembra). The larch grows on most of the Siberian mountains. Among the leafy trees, the birch is the most com- mon, next the trembling poplar, willow, liine, and ash. The oak is not indigenous in Siberia; the beech, elm, maple, and poplar, are found chiefly in the southern districts. Timber for construction, fuel, charcoal, bark, potashes, barilla, rosin, tar, pitch, &.c, are obtained from these forests, which can hardly be said to have any sort of culture applied to them. G81 Tor is extracted from the roots of the wild pine These are cut into short pieces, then split, and put in
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