Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-03

the answer to the question: How shall we
kill our murderers? Until this or some
similar scientific and equally as certain
means il adopted, our gallows system will
continue to be, as our contemporary APPLY
terms it, barbarous method
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HOME TESTIMONY FOR TREE CULTURE.
The Kern County Californian, in quoting
the remarks and forecasts of the RECORD
UNION on Forestry and tree culture
upon climate, and the radical climatic
changes effected by dcnudation of wooded
slopes, says:
Probably in no part Of the great southern val
ley has the truth of this met with better illus
tration than as regards the delta Of Kern river.
IN consequence of the network of irIigating
canals with which it is covered, an extensive
growth OF trees has taken place, not only spon-
tancOusiy. but as the result of planting. 1t now
presents in every part the appearance of fairly
wen wooded district, the trees making an
amazingly rapid growth. The amcliOTdtOn in
the climate this growth Of trees has wrought Is
surprising. Every year it is becoming more
| eqUabie and pleasant In former times. when
| this vicinity was bare plain, with nothing TO
ward of the sun and cool the atmosphere, the
heat was almost uncomfortable We have known
the mercury to stand, for long periods at point
seventeen degrees higher than 1t now reaches
! to for two o. three days only. There is much
yet to be done in The way of trce-planting that
will gradually be accomplished, and we expect
still to see marked improvement in the climate,
from year TO year, from this process.
This testimony Of the Californian is
only in keeping with all testimony on ,he
subject Tree culture induces rainfall, low
crs the average Of temperature, reclaims
barren lands and renders habitabIc regions
heretofore irtolerably hot and parched
1t prevents great floods, stimulates the ca
pacity of the soil, and retains the streams
at flowing hight On the other hand,
absence Of forest growth increases heat,
ausmcnts the liability to freshets, lowers
the standard of the public health, limits
she possibilities Of agriculture, and may be
carried to the extent of rendering a country
not only iutolerable because of heat but
yaiuclcss because of its parched and sterile
soil We repeat that five years of
dilisenl attention to tree culture in the Sac
ramento and San Joaquin valleys would
work such change as would pale the fan
cilul stories of the power Of the magic
wand Of the conjurcr in fairy tales Ten
years of uniform tree culture in the valleys
viii so transform the face Of the country,
and modify the climate, as to make what
is already the most charming of regions a
veritablc paradise; and this is byno means
fanciful picture
THE IIcaldsburs Enterprise bitterly as
sails the governing authorities Of Sacra-
mento for certain iulractions of State laws
relative TO gambling, and advises all re-
spectacle people to keep away from the
State Capital, where such municipal con-
| troll prevails. Itquotcs approyingly from
the Chronicle and the Post on the same sub
jet. Well, without stopping to discuss the
! matter, since the Enterprise is a red-hot
Democratic paper, and bows down in the
dust at the name of Democrat. let it be
informed that the infractions it anathe-
matted came from a Democratic city gov
eminent from top to bottom, and the con
troll " for which it bushes is Democratic
I'M it- length, breadth and thickness. No
en- ,I., -,.,,., j., .,...,,,o,t :. ,,lori,
.,.i,. 1.,,..-.,t.. If hold tIorof,ro in
,,,irs .i,.. -...r.., ,rtlo E,,.,.nr;se
TEE Democracy is already in tribuiation
over dts own act in nominating Sumner
for Congress in district to which he is a
stranger. The party that has 50 long and
vigorously fought carpct-basism now re
sorts TO it, Convicted by public opinion OF
a gross error at the Stockton Convention,
and of suicidal mania in dropping Sumner,
it commits a second blunder to correct the
first The dose is too much even for thestal-
wart stomach of the Alta, which remains