The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-01-03

VIC slISSia5i ppl IlfEG Civ LILO 1AiOau-
tains, and extending from the British
possessions to the Gulf Of Mexico.
Heretofore. as new sections OF the
country have been brought within
the line of settlement. new sources of
timber supply have been opened.
Hereafter the advance of the settle
ments but increases the demand upon
the already diminished and diminish;
ing reserve.
1T should be borne in mind that
to this time our great forests have
gradually increasing population from
three to thirty-three millions of peo-
pie, while they were nearly for the
whole time diving deeper into the
recesses Of the nnbroken primeval
supply. We have now gone through
and surrounded this great timber
reserve. and we enter upon the mar
gin OF the great treeless waste with
our original store three quarters con-
sumed, the demand accelerated. and
the consumers TO rise rapidly from
thirty-three TO fifty millions within
the last third of this century. \ lit
tie common arithmetic will satisfy
any thinking man Of the conse-
quences, and Of the proportion which
the demand and supply will bear to
each other at the close as compared
with the commencement OF this GEN.
fury. Extend the time for another
fifty years, with the added population.
ana it will be fortunate it our people
get boards three inches wide, as in
China at the present time. Is it not
apparent that we should at once
cease to destroy and commence to
producer
Having. as l think, demonstrated
the vast, Importance OF the woods to
the members of the human family,
and especially TO that most important
part Of the human family. the agrl-
cultarists. whose labor is the basis OF
AL the wealth, industry, prosperity.
and happiness OF the world, | turn to
the next branch OF the question.
III.-cAN FORESTS BIZ CREATED BY
THE LABOR or MAN
The experience Of the past cannot
fail to give to this question an EN-
phatic and affirmative answer.
Forests have been created from the
earliest times.
Ordericus Vitalis tells rs that Will
liam the Conqueror destroyed sixty
parishes and drove ont their inhabi-
tants. in order that he might turn
their lands into II forest. to be re-
served as a hunting ground to him
and his posterity, and he punished
with death the killing Of a deer, wild
boar or even a hare within it's limits.
His successor. William Rufus, ac-
cording to the Historic d. Dues d..
Aormdndie et des Rois a An gieterre
twas hunting one day iii a new forest,
which he had caused to be made out
of eighteen parishes that he had de-
stroyed. when by misciiance he was
killed by an arrow from the bow
of Sir Walter Tyrell.
In France great desolatien and de-
population resulted from the en-
croachments OF Che royal forests over
the cultivated country. and much OF
the violence and bitterness that
marked the great revolution arose
from the cruel game laws made to
protect these forests and their inhab-
itants.
In Europe syiricultUre. or the
growth of artificial forests. has given
birth 10 al entire literature, embrac-
ing many great and distinguished
names. They divide the science into
the ta5His or copse treatment. and
the tufaie or full growth system.
Great care is taken TO mingle the
various trees in the proportions
found in the natural forests. to ex-
ciuae domestic animals that browse
upon and destroy the tender shoots.
and to select such localities rs are
fitted for the growth of forests and
which AT the same time can best be
spared from agriculture. There is no
primitive forest" III Europe many
of them are altogether OF artificial
growth, while the remainder have
been greatly changed and affected BY
the labor Of man
In Scotland and in the South of
France many square miles of forest
have been created IN Egypt. Ma
helnet Ali planted more than twenty
!.ni:lou.s 1t aljye a.na lis. and cotton
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hen-tower OF the cathedral TT mt.
werp. saw, not long since. on the
opposite side of the schelde only IL
vast desert plain, now lie sees forest.
the limits Of which are COMPOUNDED
WITH the horizon. Let him enter
within its shade. The supposed for
est Is but system OF regular rows Of
trees. the oldest oil which is not over
forty years of age. These plantations
have ameliorated the-climate which
had doomed to stertilitv the soil
where they are planted. While the
tempest is violently agitating their
tops the air a little below is still, and
sands far more barren than the pla-
teau Of La Hague, have been trans
formed, under their protection. into
fertile fields
4 still stronger proof is afforded in
the following extract:
.-WhileHBritain retains her lawful
situation among the nations of .Eu-
rope, says Isaac Disraeli. father of
the present prime minister of Eng
land sthe sylvia Of Evelyn will
endure with her triumphant oaks In
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