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Excerpt from Cost and Methods of Clearing Land in Western Washington Much of the agricultural-land in the United States was at one time occupied by forests. Although a large area of this land has been cleared of brush and stumps, little has been published concerning the methods and cost of preparing stump land for the plow. In several sections of the country this question is yet an important one, but it is of the utmost importance in western Washington, where the land is for the most part covered with evergreen timber. Lum bering has been for years the leading industry of this section, result ing in large areas being stripped of merchantable timber and leaving what is locally called logged-off land, known in other States as out over land. The difference between the logged-off lands of western Washington and the cut-over lands of other States is chiefly in the size of the stumps. Cut-over lands are generally quite easily cleared, while to bring logged-off land under cultivation with primitive methods has been very laborious and expensive. This land as left by the logger is thickly studded with stumps, snags, and trees unfit for lumber, among which logs, tree tops, and under brush are strewn (fig. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.