Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-12-05

Tho luu,l"n I'm IN lis mention oi
i'i' rcn.n' luioti "pnal Forestry Exhi-
hli.ou snN- that centuries will hnrdl, re-
pair tI" hnN"c Nruught by fifty years
II unu'-irtlnvi nrh ,rlciie on the Alps.
tlr lNfsirc.. th" App"ninr~. in Scot
lhni lr.lani. Denmark and North
america. Hall Spain ha. been reduced
80 Il pnrrhrd desert by the insanity.
though ~ longer standing than this sin
gle century, which drnudwl its sicrras
~ their shade Italy to,tcrs on the
brink IT similar fate as the result,
80 more recent folly. ireland. NJ was
lat I, explained. hns been impoverished
hs the destruction IL sheltcring foliage.
Nas, tracts of Juiland have been
changed iutp heathcry wastes bv the
telling u the pines. In North America.
sstilrrs acted ~ u timber was mere
lucumlrnucc and obstruction. Since Il
has been admitted Ia lc commercially
~ yRlu,. IT, fortune has been almost
wor-e. IN" population has regarded
IT, turcst- n u mine of which the proper
ir.iin, was tu be straightway severed
frum the soil. For twenty Years after
The appropriation ~ California by the
United States. the hatchct ragged with
inrS against the nublest woods in the
universe, In defiance OF laws IL contin-
Ties vindlciise attacks.
Fear for the supply of fuel brought the
first psu-e In the devastation of Europe.
frenchmcn and Germans began to be
alarmed that cutting without planting
NUS, end In nothing 10 burn. In this
country. which could dispense with
wooi as fuel. n similar return to com
mun SENSE proceeded from n discovery
that sell incapable of agriculture might
give profit ~ Woodland. Only grad
ualls has the more important discovery
l~en made. or popularllcd. that trees
ma, bc In the highest degree profitable
though they bc neither timber or fuel.
A mass II irr,'fu,ablc evidence has dem
cn'irn'"'i that trees play a part in the
rsonony ~ nature for which no equal
sul'siltni. can be- found. Coal may sup
plan, wood as fuel. Iron may replace
leak aud pine In shipyards. Danish
peasants may do without wooden clogs,
ani authors may learn 10 dip their pens
In other gall than that from the
eak. Nature very seldom arrives at an
etfec, In one way without leaving room
foe human ingenuity 10 accomplish
II In another Some natural pro-
ccsse. are nj once 80 benciiccnt and so
complex that Tor man not 10 avail him.
sslf II them ~ they are In to sacriiic
irrriflcyably tho most manifest advant-
sgc. Nature ii,s up In every wood per-
tect laboratory auxiliary to the ends for
which the farmer labors. Agriculture.
whirh strips n country Of wood. con-
dsmns itself to the siporiluous cost Of
trying. with succc-s nj best only par
tial, Ia Great. artificial alternatives. The
faputan conLcn-ers II snnbeams out Of
eacumhers were not more foolish than
The esierfnlnaiors Ia the Old World and
The New of the vegetable reservoir 9TH
erwlse styled forests.
TIE whole case IL here stated with the
uimo., hre,i,y. cl-arncss and effect. II
J. high time that this matter he better
understood. The parching fields. failing
streams. and long drouths. with the
increasing necessity for artificial irriga-
ti"n. tell story that could with diiii-
ealls be made any more impressive.
- Aassachaseffs ffosghmaN.