Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-01-16 | Page 8 | Ireland's Need of Forests

IREl.AND'8 NEED OF FORESTS. Liko United States, She Is Late in Waking Up to Her Sins. Ireland has awakened to the national, nation-al, value of her forests, but so late that radical measures will now be neces- safy to make up for past neglect. A commission appointed by the crown to investigate the condition of Ireland's Ire-land's forests and to suggest measures for bettering it has just mad public its report. The commission outlines and vigorously vigor-ously urges the adoption of a large scheme for the state to plant about 700.000 acres with forest trees. This, .with tho 300.000 acres of existing forest, for-est, would give Ireland 1.000,000 acres of, forest land, an essential for tho agricultural and indusirial requirements require-ments of the country. " About 20.000 acres of this would be purchased by the atato In mountainous mountain-ous and rough regions and managed as state forest, says Harper's Weekly, while 500,000 acres, chiefly in small blocks, would be planted by the state but managed by private owners or by county councils. The fact that under the land purchase pur-chase acts much woodland formerly held in large blocks is being sold -In small parcels and lumbered and that there Is now opportunity for the government gov-ernment to acquire woods and land 6ai table for forests make It specially urgent for the state to take immediate action. To show that such a scheme of land acquisition and planting is not impracticable imprac-ticable the commission cites the case of Denmark, an agricultural country half the size of , Ireland, which since 1881 has Increased her forests by 175,-000 175,-000 acres. Flaw In Sound Advice. It has been said that we make a mistake in prescribing special hours for going to bed and getting up, and it wouid be a better way to follow the example of the dog and take an occasional occa-sional nap when we have nothing better bet-ter to do. Lovely. But how about ' the eternal buttoning and unbuttoning," unbutton-ing," and the making of toilets, from which his dogship is immune, save in high-bred circles? On the Pier. "Don't you think It Is a crazy thing for us to come down here just to watch them haul out a lot of poor fish In a big net?" "Perhaps so. The whole affair is conducted on in seine methods."