tall one, trimmed off the top growth, side branches and all of that and burnt it, you can produce potash. what you then leached down until you formed a rock crystal like a big rock candy. those crystals, those rock crystals of potash were sold for cash to the english who needed if for fixatives in the new textile industry to make sulfuric acid, ect.. one large elm tree produced enough cash to buy two acers of land. the frontier people cut enough timber to buy a little more land, cut down more timber to buy more land. you get the picture. they used the trunks of the trees for fencing to build houses, eventually to build ships and rafts, ect.. this was the pattern, so people with almost no money could have a down payment and then expand and expand as their families expanded because many of the families had eight to ten children, and the problem was they all survived. ethan allen grew up learning from his father how to start a community, but learning how to hunt as well. there were mohawk indians still in the area, so he learned to live indian style, how to hunt indian style, and he turned