SEASONED WOOD.
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Almost every one is aware of the advan- tages in hBving well seasoned wood fer fu- el, though butgfew profit by experience, and pay proper attentio so the business. There is not only a great convenience in having dry fuel, for the purpose of saving time, and the :" wear and tear" of patience, in cvld wealher, and when one is in haste but there is great economy also, an actual saving of many dollars year.

 y Green wood requires a certain degree of heat to drive of the water it contains, be- fors it will burn. In raising this beat, there is an actual loss of ;Ieat, or waste of fuel for this purpose. A quantity of wood that contains a barrel of water, is worth as much less than the same quantity seasoned, as the value of fuel sufficient to raise 8 bar- rel of water so degree of heat that will expel 1t from the wood. The green wood must be dried in the fire before it will bprn. Aa'Ehe great difference in weight between "a cord of gseen and dry wood, shows the large amount f mOisiure in the former !; and that nTnch fuel will be used up in ex. polling this moisture this fuel may be sav- ed by using seasoned wood. i6i

 Some persons shink that green wood is WOFth 0UOut MS WuCu aS uSys "S " s"e's longer by this method of estimating the value of fuel, poor wood, as it is genaralsy considered, would be tho most vaiuablss as it consumes slowly. A very little good seasoned wood is sufficient for good ire, and far more heat is produced than from the same quantity of green. Ifh does nOs last % long as green wood, much less is re auired for the same heat, and the sanse quantity will last far longer. One cord Ol well seasoned wood, will deuhtless produce l as much heat ss cord and half of green

 This vast difference, in an article of ss

 much importance, should induce every on.

 to prepare his fuel in time to have it vel

 seasoned.

 | If there is difference, of one third, Q

 even of one quarter, in the value of season

 ed and green wood. the farmer who use | fifty cords in . year, at an expense Ot tw