Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-10-11
FORESTRY,
rime Americans Wake Up and
ston the Destruction Of Oar
Forests.
what the old World is Doing.

s5feet anu B1A1t~ A'J oAN
os- laBds, that much was being
~ .oI-sgerge the old-ane replant new
sD ,.,sa IN regions from which 200 or
since the forests had been Go.
vi At the schools Of forestry
s, l.D.7t r1gs asked, "N by do not Amer
barn bY our errors and do some.
~ y, save their forests now?" The
Nv could make was chat I hoped
LIZA. begin to save before We were
..oi. bg necessity as other nations
.-q forests over Prussia from
70, lv waF of Berlin through TO
9aa 10 the circle within the dis
ram Berlin 70 Dresden, rs q radiou
3air- well. Il is common TO ace
-..,,i,gs largely OF pine, Of fIom forty
.t5 sqrgs, ten, fifteen, thirty five ana
~. rs old, az within few miles of
otbe,. the different heights of trees
,fs land lines sharply sh0 wing their
Some az the older trees are sixty
siys and eighteen TO twenty-five
..,.s 10 diameter, ell growing very even
n .4iek The plantations are kept
v..t the lower dead branches broke
Z n, uss bg poor people as fuel, and all
@eop land that looked light, ana as If 1t
NJ beep sau out ike the "old fields" OF
4. cs7olmas and Virginia. Many Of
1,,s nav forests iu Germany ware being
,.f,.aer for the timber, lumber and wood
.bs-. we're being preserved with the bsst
..s cut OUT and sold, under the care of
t,.sers The land itself was being re.
7am5 was approaching q virgin CON
tar5 agGia. These new forests now
.-,,.s1 the timber of the country.
n he forests Of Saxony and Bohemia,
as E.be and Spree, more particularly
S1on Switzerland and up the River
Fs- into Bohemia, | visited some twendy
rh.rty mills that we're saving timber
,,sn uoau the streams tributary to
aas waters. Some good trees were
rh Up here thirty and thirty six
as- -tGe butt end, au1 Gu the whole
-gt. Say sixty TO seven feet long. ln
arg-- mills the whole log II run
4g-ga gang saws, and then the produc5
setl gp as one log by itself and so sent
make, slab and al. The Jaws were
1l.r imam ours. Very small logs, too,
asr uy more than five inches IN diane
rrsre cut The price OF tins lGmber
n,ua mere than j. Is III the Middle OF
sa Lag.ala States, bat o. course the
ugeug. use less lumber than we do.
.ga 100 extensive examination of Ger
1s AUSTRIA Belgium and Northeastern
al.. Northern Switzerland, anG the
llE o. Baden, [ should say that under
3. ea-l.sg. care and intelligence OF
e present system the forests we're quite
sIE up with tho demand for the com
ODD aweer wants OF tins country and
zone even being shipped To Portugal,
,ssil alI t4e Mediterranean. visited
B. s-E mills GA the Necker and Rhine,
1rLd 'ha te!dbeTg and the Tannu-,
BID #w I9s.sters carefully cutting and
a3ss The Wludfall trees and planting a
aFoae Tor every one taken out. The
. N"lmaIt IS doing so much fer the
lr's everywhere. In thelitde province
Baden smaller than some Of our New
. England DIP New York counties, over 100
11 .,- .mgioycd aud paid b. the gov
amen. ro care FOR the woodlands. In
>11lg and 3JheMiH ! vent 30 the homes
Ar iore- 't5 aud found some of them
l2si'a % "s1ous branches Of natural ,
Aof. HE heads Of departments were
s15...s ot some school Of forestry, Gad |
v.re advanced as they deserved and |
'1Ht cileos for life or good behavior. !
l Germans have waited uutil their tim |
en. Of before th- began 70 re-
I,t1, hey are Dow prosecuting the |
l1 "l'h rare pa1euce and skill.
10 .ae summer OF 1887 | visited again /
3. British lsies, ana examined the lum |
'' ministry Of che eastern coast, Of Ed /
-'1E prIeulacly. 1 saw much of the |
a,f' v. N0rwGy and Eastern Russia, |
e'- brought into England. There /
"."- large 0r wide timber left in these |
-Nes Much the same process Of /
| taAs forest areas has gone on there |
\ ias countries before named. There /
-al less timber in Norway, Sweden |
--ssa available than is generally |
/ posed and its quality Is poorer
L enough, but hard and full of knots,
-lH- like the lumber of lower
'.ls Evidently the virgin forests Of |
-V'a cooperate zoLe are in North
.".a. lue impression created by the 1
",F-'a Forest examination made by !
2 1855 and 1887 is this: Trees will
properly planted and cared for,
.Ae the first attempts in raising
glasses from the old farms of the
- .a- virgin prairiea of the west.
nus rich enough TO grow tim
t"o cultivated grass will not
l-lu the wild mature OF she
--l1ed by many ploTings and
s.-E of the tame cattle; even SO,
~ '-a5 has been stripped OF woods
''.H .g farm crops, it is hard to re-
s-.A torest. Just here the aid of
a-e5-d Here is WORK for the
forestry that have done so
'o' I rance and Germany. The for
t'l2n Of Europe is due 10 sci
i accomplished by men trained
purpose.
more regularly distributed
4. western Europe, especially IL
.-..... and Baltic countries, is more
Tor the restoration OF forests
s.. america generally, though IN
- z Europe the sol ia so much
81. IS almost impossible TO make
indeed, all over Europe, ana
a.- and sonfh of the Mediter
over most Of The older settl-
y the eastern hsmis phere, it
h. -'s been the special mission of I
Rec to destroy and remove the 1
1 NE face OF the earth.
4laer yards Of England, Scot
~ asrt, Bremen, Antwerp and /
much of the timber from