Show A chance to loam learn A lesson according to a writer a great part of russia is threatened with the heat and aridity of tho the central asian steppes As long ion ago as 1830 shortly after a famine in russia the effect of deforestation in the country about the donez was complained of or no attention was paid to the complaint deforestation went on streams and springs ephings dried drie d upspring up spring and summer rains began to falli fall and their cessation is tho the cle cause of the f failure allure of last years harvest in R russia us sia the russian government is waking up too to late perhaps to restore the bees ees except at an enormous expense aalf and af after ter a long period of labor and waiting walting that which has occurred in ili russia and other european countries changing fruitful re regions ions to deserts is going on in ili the united united states let us nc not it plunge our heads deep into conceit t and optimism edg ourselves that the laws of nature have no force in america syracuse standard |