. The New England farmer . rested, he will be more observant, and willthoroughly learn Avhatever is necessary for hissuccess. Another and equally important advantagewill be the accustoming him early to feel re-sponsibility. JNIany young men, though Avellacquainted with all the manual operations ofthe farm, fail utterly when entrusted with themanagement of an estate, from Avant of ex-perience in ])lanning for themselves. It ismuch better that responsibility should be grad-ually assumed, than that a young man shouldbe fiiSt thrown upon himself on attaining hismajoritv.—Vor. Ohio Fanner. Ikiugati
. The New England farmer . rested, he will be more observant, and willthoroughly learn Avhatever is necessary for hissuccess. Another and equally important advantagewill be the accustoming him early to feel re-sponsibility. JNIany young men, though Avellacquainted with all the manual operations ofthe farm, fail utterly when entrusted with themanagement of an estate, from Avant of ex-perience in ])lanning for themselves. It ismuch better that responsibility should be grad-ually assumed, than that a young man shouldbe fiiSt thrown upon himself on attaining hismajoritv.—Vor. Ohio Fanner. Ikiugation.—Dr. March in his lecture onSpain and the Pyrenees, says that land irri-gated in Spain will sell, evei-ything else beinge({ual, for $oO() an acre, while tJiat alongsideof it, not irrigated, will only bring .^50 anacre. One company organized in iMadridwith a capital of !?1,50(),00(), has reclaimed8(10,000 acres of land, and are paying divi-dends erpial to 18 per cent, on the investment. 1871. NEW ENGLAND FARTMER. 269. BOTATIOM OF FOKEST TREES. MOXG far-mers therehas beenmuch specu-lation as tothe cause ofrotation inforest is wellknown thatwhen a for-est is cut ofF,it is not usu-ally succeed-ed by agrowth of thesame kind ofwood. Ifhard wood istaken off, it is succeeded by soft wood,—pine,white or yellow, hemlock, and sometimes inlow land by spruce or hackmatack. If thegrowth removed was of the latter varieties,then oak of several kinds, maple, beech, wal-nut or chestnut may succeed. Various reasons are given for this Thoreau, the author of Walden, AWeek on the Merrimack River, and otherworks, was in the habit of passing much timein the woods and fields, and was a constantlyinterested observer of the operations of na-ture. In one of his works, entitled Excur-sions, he states the opinion that the rotationof forests is occasioned by the transportationof seed from where it grows to where it isplanted. This is done chiefly, he con-tinues, by the agency of
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