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The uplands are well timbered, yielding from 40 to 100 cords of wood to the acre.

The timber consists of white, red and black oak, ash, cherry, walnut, hickory, maple, gum, papaw and dogwood, with beach, sycamore and butternut on the bottoms.

Cedar and pine are found in a few localities on the uplands.

The soil is generally a black loam.

In the vicinity of Farmington, after passing through the first or top soil, there is rich, red-clay subsoil.

If these lands have a specialty, it is for grass.

All kinds of grass grow luxuriantly, producing from 2 to 2 1 / 12 tons per acre, which readily markets at from $ 12 to $ 20 per ton.

Blue grass, it is said by farmers from the blue grass region of Kentucky, does nearly as well here as there, and as an evidence, it is found growing spontaneously in the woods, lawns, old fields and meadows.