| Show evils of destruction of forests the tre the news 0 ws of 1 forest 0 rest dires fires would seem to ladi indicate cate that half theroun the country is ablaze in the estimate of losses we note that account is taken main maln mainly malnis y of improvements and of cut wood of houses barns saw mills lumber and corded fuel these are ure of course the losses that most moat strike home to the individual but in a national sense they are ra really kli a V tha smallest item of this calamity all these things can be replaced but the forests the hundreds ardd arid hundreds of miles of forests that are destroyed every spring rig ilg can ii never der ier ebe be replaced or at least only after the lapse nf centuries we seethe see the result in the fallin failing of our streams in summer and in destructive tive tivo fres freshets fresh bets ets in the spring the climate too is changing with the waste of woodland fruits that used to be plenty as grasshoppers dui dri a meadow are now searce scarce d and of joor poor quality high winds an and late a frosts work disaster the evil promises to affect even our national standing our great rivers are failing falling fram the denudation of the lanu lana about their sources eltty eity elty fity years more of such land clearing as the last fifty has seen about the headwaters of the hudson would make the upper reaches of that stream at low tide it is difficult to point out a remedy and V yet jet the situation loudly calls for or 0 one e buch sweeping fires are unknown in the great forests of germany for the simple reason that the udder underbrush which acts as tinder to the I 1 spark is all cleared out of course wo we are too young a nation for apy any such work as that yet ib it is full time at least to begin 6 a reform in gur forest manager management nent cincinnati times may 17 I 1 |
