New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-12
IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.
.ovrsTs AND FOREST TREES. Il.
rmun CARE ANp PRRs GRvATIOS.

- xha,s the natural growth wss 70 lu1uri 1ot MY
since a. 70 he an incumbsnce, timber ior o1io
=, and mechanical purposes has increased u va'ne
e. ess N ten fold and is very scarce, While WOOD
f.ai "a s,rost unporchs sable. Ia vast portion OF
..o,o,. n The national domaio which are sparse
~ .s,,lsd ar ,,l unclaimed there are no natural ior
C a tbese regions such - the prsiries OF l.
IA I,xs are fertile and capable Of rapidly pro-
-. h..xv growth Of timber, when once planted
"a o.,sd for as numerous experiments have proved
n. The other hand soms hly and mountainous regions
I'D N. ard plsns in the Indian country IN New-hex-
-, and North Western Texss-the great Amencan
dsser-are not readily susceptible OF cultivation. but
ia nearly every square mile Otness regons trees can De
made 70 grow. When once planted, they Will De tae
direct means Of creating moisture, which Will ieed
spy;pys and streaps and Of smehorstng tne clnSte,
snd thu IS Of rendering the soil productive.
Asn is only by considering the properties OF treee'
,sd The part played by forests in the economy OF n
tu,e thst We can see and sppreca,e their value, we
NAV be psrdoned for attempting somewhss extended
I'D comprehensive view Of ,ne general su1ect.
Eature msirtaiDs beautiful consistep,y IN the ds-
tnbuton and arrangement of the animal snd VeSetsoe
hipedems 1t is often sad that the Ion, the tgsr the
leopard ard the camel delight in ard AMI sandy
deserts But this s only partially true These beasts
lie waIm climate, and will live in barren tracs
where the mesns Of subsistence are 60 sesnty as
10 Dive away animals Of other species. But
should you entirely the vegetation the equl-
Kbrlum Of nature would be destroyed, and all animals
except those passing from fertile region 70 aoother
would disappear. RuGnaIDg animals would leave N
quest of vegetable food, and the carDlyora that live
upon them would follow. TIE animal world is depend
snt directly and solely the vegetable world for sub
x,tepoe. This is exempfed az clearly when man de-
xours the OK that crops the verdsnt pasture as when
he byes entirely upon fruits, roots and plants " For
hungry guests Nature spreads the table when
she brings forth vegetabes, and che would not ie'
(" one of her worlds-the sDrnsl-become extinct, sae
must provide so surely for the multiplication oil
"psrts that spite Of al injurious and destructive In
" Auepces, u general famine shsll be impossible
Bat the vegetable world, while giving its fruits as
ICED and sustenance to living crestures, has other
properties and carries out other purposes. We see at
ence the utility Of sturdy oak taperng pine when
converted into the beam of house or tue mast OF
vessel, but do not always comprehend the direct
and beIefca effects that trees and forests have upon
the atmosphere, and through the atmosphere upon the
produttyeness Of the soil aud the heatndness oil tbe
climate. An eminent London physician expressed II
q his opinion that if al the trees and shruos we're re-
moved from the two three thousand acres OF parks,
SD from the gardens and pfivste grounds OF tnat
great metropolis, in one year the bills OF mortehty
would show an increase Of deaths TO the exteot
Of mere than fifty per cent Ii we consider that
there are ordinarily in London over 600 deaths
Q week or nearly $4,000 year, that the deaths
by cholera in 1Si9, during the worst period OF the
veitston, were ct no time over 5Oo week, we
see the bearing and influence OF trees-accoranS 10
tie opinion quotedon the health and longevity OF the
Inhabitants Of crowded city. We might As reasona-
bly, expect that land animals could live without ar o
ash without water as that there could be pure ana
healthy atmosphere where there are few or no ees vi
rapidly growing plants or where in an extended re-
aon animal life vastly preporderates over vegetable
Ms
Nsture is under all circumstances constantly attempt
hg 10 keep up that just equilibrium which conduces TO
hs good of the whole. Life is motion, death "oold
sbsIuetion." The has its Winds and tides, ana
natural streams run. Wherever there ia q stagnant
POOL by accident or through the carelsssness or
bad management of man. Nature at once sets to work
70 correct the evil green slime, which is vegets-
Sop covers the surface of the pool and consumes the
poisonous gases generated by the stsgnant water CIR
cuustspces having produced abundance of food for
plarts plants appear seemingly by miraculous crea
t,on. 10 consume it. This s in obedience TO law OF
nature, ss benehcent it is une,riug. The history
and geography of the world supply numerous instances
N which the absence or destruction of vegetation, and
part euary of trees has rendered country uninhAbit
able, because unhealthy. The PoItine marches are
vel- known example. In the time OF the Caesars all
central Italy had proportion OF forests and the
country was healthy and fertile, and supported large
population. Now that the forests cat Off the dry
hnd is arid ana barren and the marshes send forth
malaria thst kills slmcst every person that CONES
within reach OF its exhalations. This poisonous mais
ma Il contained in csrbonic acid smmoolsca gas and
vstsry vapor which the real food OF psats, less
than onefourth part of which is composed Of the or
game mntsr contained 10 the soil. The rest is derived
from the atmosphere. srgle suadower consumes
daily 90 ounces If water; and one acre OF suuowere
consumes three million pounds during the four principal
growing months. a weis,ocked orchard WI, IN the
tsue time consume five million pounds. The family
Of the SnperI tendent Of the National Obeerv story ct
Washington Lieut.. Msury were eutject 20 sgues and
kvers every Summer the effect Of the exhalation of
marshes on the bank Of the Po.omse. The learned
Lieutenant planted, Spring, large bresdth Of cue
flowers. These aensl scayengors consumed the mlas-
Daic constituents Of the atmosphere aud for the hrs
time since the place inhabited the resiients es-
seped the chls and ftvers. TIE effect more
mysterious than is the absence of cholera where buzz
zards eqnent showers the activity of has de-
sroyed or removed the fth of 8 crowded city. A
f.d of hope, oabssges ludan corn, or nursery of
trees, would doubtless have produced the same result.
Experiments have shown that scarcely one-half the
anoup, of wster consumed by growing plants is sup
ped he rain the remainder being procured by absorP-
ten fom the wstery vspor Of the atmosphere.
Bot there are other beneficial effects produced BY
eswiDg vegetables, and particularly by trees and for
ess beside that reaultirg from their consumption of