An article in the 1888 Stephenville Empire advises: “There are a good many farmers sitting around the stove, or worse, the tavern, smoking and trading yarns when their supply of dry wood is very low. The wood is worth more cut now, before the sap starts, and good seasoned wood will not only last longer, but it will keep the women from getting cross from cooking with green wood.”

1884: Professor Campbell, of Green’s Creek, tells us that the sound of the woodsman’s axe can be heard, on clear mornings, in every direction, wresting from nature her forest groves and adding them to the agricultural kingdom.” Stephenville Empire