| Show TI SIME I 1 while our neighbors in the states are having their a called to the fact that their forests are aro being gradually effaced from the country cuu aud are taking steph to ward off this threatened evil our people are doing wry vry little towards redeeming our endless plains from their productive unproductive state man in his hla haste to have the present satisfactory is ia apt to make no provision for the future trees and treba in irge inge numbers are i dispensable in tue the economy of nature but they have been felled everywhere with gra iter or less disregard of consequences and many serl seri ua results are already p perceptible the foundation for the material prosperity of most every community iles lis in the fue eesa cesa of the crops or of cereal products their success CO is again dependent upon the weather veather rain ruin wind and sunshine and these depend far more than is realized u upon upun pon pun the freeti pre presence erl eri eti ce of trees and their action upon the atmosphere many of our rivers have year sear after year been diminishing in bize size and aud the annual rainfalls rain faila falls show a decrease from dormor records and the percee tio i of many careful observers not notices ieee icee a gre ter budde sud mud severity nuil anil more irregularity about the meteoric mete orio oric change chang eq than was waa for formally meily melly t je e case even in modern memory and aud it is 18 natural enough that an incomplete machine c should work irregularly our oar 8 section lc tion of trie the country la is entirely tree trey less we do not complin complain of scarcity of rain and of severe weather and aud sudden ell eil changes anges as we seem to take for granted that as aa there is no remedy for them they therefore bo ba endured bub but are wd not likely to obtain the bamo bame results by tree planting here where a tree gr w as the people in the states who are urged to raise other trees iu in place of those that are cut down or destroy id td the mischief being perceived ani ati an common sense having pointed out tit til remedy simple enough and certain to be successful is it not our duty to togi go to work at once and surround at lesi leui our homesteads with breeb several of our neighboring have taken the matter into eon con consider tiou tion to determine how best to bet set on foot a systematic and comprehensive mode modo of planting trees in nebraska the method has been decided upon the state board of agriculture has haa egl egi apart the loth day or of april to be ailed called arbor arborday day lay to be devoted by the inhabitants of the state to the planting of trees they bho aho ah o introduce of bounties and offer a reward of one hub hun died dollars to the agricultural society of that county in which the greater greata number of trees shall he be planted th thu tha day nd ind a farm library worth thirty five dollars to the person who properly properio properly pl plants a ut 8 t he the gre greatest a te all number 11 0 r hinish thia beems seems to be an excellent way i repair damage damages s done in the past and andt improve the nature of places that bi h to have never been wo 0 d if we could have a similar plan inow dubeil deuced in our territory and if our deop would oe ne sufficiently in earnest in t IH matter what an effect the recur redi reDo of the arbor day would have up upa the appearance of the different bew sem in nta of our beloved territory ciff enne leader |
