The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-22

woods are already nearly eXh2ueted, so That
a large number of mills which once turned
out white pine are now devoted to half
grown spruce. Mr.. Little proceeds to show
his readers that all New England and also
the middle states are short of lumber, ex-
cepting New York and Pennsylvania. The
west branch of the Susquehanna is still
rich in pine, and the Adirondack equally
rich in spruce, but the expiration of 10
years will see the best lumber eliminated
from these forests, unless prevented by
law.
LOOK SOUTH AND WEST.
The southern otates are at present well
supplied with cypress and pitch pine, but
white pine Is scarcely known there. 1t is
said that the manufacture oftar and turpen-
tine leads to the annual destruction of one
tenth of the pitch pine forests. Mr.. Little
then takes view of the vast forests of Sag
inaw bay and other pineries of Michigan,
which, as he says, are 60 rapidly being ex-
hausted that they can hardly last more than
half dozen years. The forests of Wis
consln and Minnesota will not last much
longer. He then turns to such districts as
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and other prairie
states which have but small supply of
woods, and purchase much of their lumber
from Michigan. Idaho, Utah and Arizona
are almost treelesg wastes, and depend on
the Pacific states for their timber. The
general conclusion with regard to the
United States is that economic measures
should be introduced, and that public SEN
| timent must be awakened.
HOW ABOUT CANADA?
| Mr.. Little refers to his own country with
sad consciousness of approaching evil.
| The available timber in Canada will not at
the present rate Of consumption last 10
years. There is plenty of pine in British
Columbia, but it is inaccessible without a
railroad, which may never be built. He
afIirms that the valley or the st. Lawrence
has not enough pine left to supply the de-
mand from the state of New York one
year. The forests of Nova Scotia are rap
idly disappearing before the wood chopper,
and then in New Brunswick one-half the
best timber ia already gone. Upon the
whole, Mr.. Little thinks that in less than
20 years the supply of timber both in this
country and in Canada will terminate, and
therefore calls for come public enactments
in defense of the common veal.
PENNY WISE, POUND FOOLISH.
An incident illustrative of this maxim is
given in the history Of Frederick of Prussia.
lie was in want of money, and one of his
counselors told him how 1t could be OBJ
tanned without taxation. At that time a
dense pine forest bound with its roots the
sand and heath of a vast territory. The
scheme proposed was the sale of the lum-
Der thus to be obtained, and it was a fnan-
cal success: The king obtained the much
needed money, for which in the end the
state has had to pay in the most costly
manner. The winds coursed over the ex-
poaed surface, choking streams, impairing
navigation and deaolating an extensive ter
ritory. The king got 200, 900 thalers, but
1t would require millions to repair The DAM
age thus inflicted by royal blunder.
HINTS on PLANTING.
Horace Greeley planted great numbers
of trees on his farm at Chappaqua, and ad-
vocated the system in the columns OF, the
Tribune. Walter Scott was also very ioho
of this culture, and hu~d-sds Vi stately
trees in the vicinity of Abaottsford are now
- r;s taste. He introduced il
to his son, "An' then, Jock, when we ha
nothing else TO DO, be aye sticking in
tree. They'll aye be GROWN when we ar,
seepn." The advice was reality, anC
Scott knew its value. The ornamental
: trees planted by Shenstonc at his beautiful
/, landscape garden are now his best monu
ment. Hugh Miller, who visited the spo
= a century afterward, says that ''wher
: Shenstone built it had gone TO ruin, Blu
where he planted it had increased in beau
ty." 1t is now said that the timber cult
waited in the tree plantations of Germany !
< equal to four times the value of the sam
s space in the original forest. The qualit,
: is better, and the growth is more rapid
1 1t has been urged that if the denuded pin
lands of America were protected from tn
invasion of the plough or of cattle, the
would in half century be renewed in roI
d est growth, improved in quality and i
q abundance. Such are few hints offere
= as appropriate to a dry time by
THE HERMIT IN New YORK.