Show value of the forests how many leaves do you think a tree has asked the man who had read it all up stopping his friend in the park of course you don X 1 l know some birches have and each leaf has mouths I 1 know of a sixty year old beech that had 75 5 leaves and a thirty five year rear old one that had only 3 those 35 leaves dried weigh I 1 ed only ten pounds and the 3 dried only three quarters of a pound but they do ilo tremendous work in a season during a spring and summer birches andi and lindens have been found to ex hale or pounds of water per pound of dry leaves the ash tree about beeches maples and oaks the conifers give out about pounds a tree to stagger iou ion still more an acre of beech tor for est of say trees would exhale about bout 2 pounds and the funniest part of it all to me is that the water in a tree or the moisture really amounts to more than half the weight of the tree or from 55 to 60 per cent while the wood weighs but 40 to 45 per cent in a big forest what you don it see weighs more than what you do see funny isn t it As to forests and water contin aed the tree man I 1 learned that a partial cutting down of the volga river valley forests had the bremen dous dons effect ot of lessening so great great an area of water as the caspian sea I 1 floured the comparison and found i that pro rata six feet of water would be taken off lake superior eight off oft I 1 lake michigan eighteen off oft lake erie and twenty seven off lake on tario I 1 was staggered then I 1 found that defor deforestation estat ion as we call it has robbed the vistula river of twenty six inches of water i the mag ent rhine of twenty beigh inches and the beautiful blue danube ot of fifty five inches let me hit you nearer home the hudson has been called a drowned river because the sea en broaches cro aches upon it but you re drowning it more now by bour our deforestation and you d better hurry up with these adirondack lands the salt water now they say goes up to hastings the schuylkill kill kilI Is less in volume than ever so Is the mohawk and so Is the connecticut even the fish left the lower part of the savannah river but they re trying to do something with that water now another queer thing Is that chris copher columbus columpus son fernando who crossed the ocean with him was the first man to start the question of for ests causing rainfall by b his lis observe eions of the wealth of vegetation on the island of jamaica new york sun |