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Show ijH Oen Alger's plan to reclaim tho "H deserts by raising forests on them has i'H good points, no doubt, nnd la worth put-ill put-ill "nK effect so far ns prartlcablo iS fut It would bn tho old question over llj ngaln, ' hether Is first, the egg or tho , ben? ' In most of tho nrld nrea, it M would be Impossible to raise ttees with- nut provlllng Irrlgitlon facilities to m water them, wbllo tho atei nn which lr tr,f" cmM 1B lnlBed without Irrigation El '" loo small to have nny npprcolnblo H effect upon ilia cllmatlo conditions nf 'W "10 great arid belt, Tho forest icserves ,H In tho mountnlns nt tbo hends of tho streams nro In line with Gen. Alger's I'M "'"westlon. but they don't lino, nor nH could ihey be expected to have, any tB futther effect thnn to protect the snovvs B f'"m melting too fast In the early sum ' H "'er "" To ee' n,,lch ot " forxat nrea, djH such as might Induce rainfall, there Ja must first bo lirlgutlon, but when we ' m l,a, """' we doit need the trees, nor the rainfall. |