Report on forestry submitted to Congress by the Commissioner of Agriculture - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...and milling regions.--(Chas. F. Vanderford, Florence Station, Tenn.) Stewart County.--No fires of consequence have occurred in 1880. Several acres were burned in April from fires supposed to have been started by hunters or persons wishing to get a range for cattJe. We have been fortunate in thus escaping, but this and other large iron properties are subject to malicious and wanton destruction of timber by persons who live near by and have little or nothing to risk. Sometimes they fire the woods in order that vegetation may furnish grazing for stock; sometimes to destroy the leaves, so that a person can walk noiselessly through the woods without alarming the turkeys. At a remote corner of this property, some 3,000 acres have been made a barren waste by repeated burnings, supposed to have been done for the latter purpose. This year that spot escaped the hunter's brand. March and April are the months of danger from accident.--(Joseph Vaulx, Cumberland Iron Works, Tenn.) Washington County.--Fires occurred in the mountains of this county in October last, and continued two or three weeks. They are supposed to have been set by persons who wished to improve the range, or to collect chestnuts. They were arrested by firing against them with good success. Thousands of acres of mountain lands have been burned over, and much timber of inferior quality has been destroyed. The fires were mostly limited to the mountains.--(H. Preanell, Jonesborough, Tenn.) In Bedford, Blount, Campbell, Cannon, Claiborne, Roane, Sevier, Smith, Sullivan, and White Counties, no unusual fires are reported, but the "annual burnings" are, in most cases mentioned, and sometimes with approval. A report, applicable to Sumner, Wayne, Lewis, and Hickman Counties, states that...