Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-08-18


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The Forest Trees Of America Compared
with These of Europe.
During the recent session Of the United
States Agricultural Society at Washington,
DR.. }. G. Cooper, of the Smithsonian Insti-
tute, delivered an interesting lecture before
the Society, on "The Forest Trees of Amer
ica," illustrating his subject with compari-
cons with the distribution of European
forests: rr s. ael
Thinning out of timber in the older
States has reduced the proportion, audwe are
fast creeping toward the point when il will
he scarce and dear. The western boundary
of the timber country is waving line which
runs from the west end of Lake Erie to the
Gulf Of Mexico at the eastern boundary OF
Texas, which line exactly corresponds with
the general direction Of the moist windE
from the Gulf Of Mexico, northward snt
eastward The prairie country is bounded b,
the thirtieth and Aixtieth degrees of latitude
and tho nipety-second and l20th meridians
Westward come the plains, rendered steril
by the sweeping dried and hot winds from
the Pscifc. In the prairie country, and, Il
some extent, in the desert Itself, the margin
of streams are wooded, and they alone
Along the Pacific slope belt Of timber ex
tends along mountain ranges, becoming thin
ner as we go southwark.
The forests of America are disappearing
and unless some means of preservation ar
adopted, wood will become very scarce il
our own time. In Russia forests exten,
nearly ten degrees further northward than il
America. The extent of timber land, com
pared with arabic, is greater here than il
Europe In Russia, the proportion is thirty
six per cent; Austria, 30 $40 Prussia, II g. 10
France, l6 6-l0; for the whole Of Europe tn,
proportion is 26H per cent, while IN th,
United States and Canada it was as high a
4s 4-l0. In Europe the proportion was in.
creesing, with us decreasing. The cOmputa-
tons do not take any note of mere fire-wood
but solely Of the timber suitable for building
&C. In the United States and Canada, nortl
Of latitude 43o to 500, there is seventy-five 70
ninety per cent. of the country wooded
South Of latitude 43o to Virginia and Ohio
there is ffty-fve per cent. add Virginia,
Kentucky and Ohio to this district, and we
have fifty-eight per cent wooded. Indiana,
with the Southern States, except Texas, gives
sizty-eight per cent. The prairie States
with wood only along their streams and
rivers, have thirty per cent. of timber land,
and west Of the prairie there is but five per
cent. iu all. o ~
From the statistics of our last census we
discovered that l. 500, ,000acres out of q 900, 00C
had but FIVE per cent. wooded. Assuming
that in 1890 all the Eastern country was
wooded, then it had fallen from ninety per
cent. to AN per cent, OF six per cent. each
decade, and if the thing went ON at this
frightful rate. in thirty years more we would
reduce our proportion Of timber in the Older
States to but thirty per cent. In Russia il
has been ascertained that a country having
thirty-seven per cent of timber lands wa
well wooded, thirty-seven to twenty-five
fairly wooded, and below that point poorl,
wooded. tss1 fis i8so & - d
In 1884 laws were passed in Russia for tn
protection of timber, and in lT20, trees wer
hrst plsnted by Government, German pro
fessors employed, and regular schools opened
II had proved highly profitable 10 the Gov
ernment and the system has been great
enlarged. Upto 1850 there had been sur
veyed 2400o,00O acres of timber, and tn
proportion Of each variety of tree asceI
tanned, 49,500,000 surveyed, but the tree
not classified; 5,50o,00O trees planted, 5000
acres drained for tree plantations, and 200
pounds of seed sown. The saving by pro
lection from the fcrnler waste had beei
s3,500,000 in three ye,lrr They had learne
TO plant trees in barren. Knitting sands, 400
acres Of this formerly worthless land hayin
been set III trees.
CULrIvATroN on GRAPHS AND PEACHES !
TEE SourHs--A writer in Aiken contribute