Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-26
ABOUT ronEsT ny
one Devoted to the Preservation Of
our Trees ON the subject.

10 The Gazette.
temple. Texas. Dec 25.-''I fully In
worse the recommendation OF the sec.
,g lhat adequate protection be pro-
,ha LOT our forestry reserve, and
mat comprehensive forestry system
Ne lnaugurated. such keepers and
superlntendents as are ne.sssar,- 10
Fotect the forests already reserved
should be provided"
me above appears In the presiden,is
recent address 10 congress Forestry.
WHEN means the preservation OF for
80! Iahus and the growing OF forest.
,,,n', an .,iu other timber. Is a subject OF
,.'9',ieNlous interest 10 our state. While
We nave national forestry Department
needs the hearty cooperation OF the
inherent states 10 attain the success
SYsired IN economic and climatic com
ui.sohs' Forestry Is not a net theory.
NY tne establishment OF a gentleman's
80, ~ intent station nor a hind teat in
e ~ hatiohai udder where n favored few
,,,,,,' uie ~, eoplous and unobserved APP
WYprlauons. The public purse paws
LOT many shams, but don't on that ~.
Svunt condemn the good with the had
forestry has come to stay. because
our nealth, our wealth and our arri-
Suitural success depends upon II. This
~ not a new idea with us. every nation
u europe has Its department OF for
Ssug' ana Tor centuries the forest TIM
per has been cut scientifically and
grown as carefully as any other product
OF the soil. The day OF waste Is bevin-
nlng TO tell on the American people.
Economics are now being praotised on
every side. Leakages are being stop-
pea, and the wooden shoe and black
bread are not very far on. We have
kept up the open handed waste re-
narkaby long, but we must now learn
to conform to altered conditions. The
man who barks the trees on his farm
IN order TO raise four-cent cotton Ia
hnally going to give up farming and
take TO tramping. Money Is to be made
In little things and slowly. and no bet
ter way presents Itself than In tree
planting. The farm Is fun OF waste
places, where trees, fruit and nut. and
those rapidly growing, like the cotton-
wood and willow. suitable for fire wood
can be protitably grown II Will pay to
preserve your timber and plant more
each year II you wish to leave your
children something beyond mere iiv-
Ing. The day Of free grass is past
Out OF cotton, corn, wheat, sheep. cat
lie, etc, you may get q living, but not
much more. The successful farmer
must be the brainy farmer the one
who reads, talks II over with his neigh
bors, attends farmers Institutes and
thinks out at night the morrow's wsrk.
The farmer who doesn't do this Will
become the others Held hand. Mark
the signs OF the times The day Of big
profits are over The nttest will now
survive by the use OF hands directed by
head. When cotton was worth 10 cents
and grass was free, head said plant
trees, don't cut down the pecans, plant
fruit trees, plant along the rOadsides
aud fences where the land won't be
missed, Hands said; Go %, thou
croaker. We have plenty, as did our
fathers, and our children viii have the
same, With cotton at four cents and
wheat being fed to hogs the children
cry, alas, why didn't our fathers plant
for us valuable trees, then might we
have had another source Of revenue
from this starvation farm? II Is high
time that our people awakened TO the
necessity OF tree preservation and tree
planting. Around every town fire wood
Is becoming more and more scarce.
The cedar line is getting narrow and
narrower. There Is money In the plant
ing OF cedar. Posts are getting dearer
every year. But a greater and more
imperative reason makes the subject Of
tree-planting q crying necessity, For
the last seven years the writer has
been acting as volunteer observer from
this point for the weather bureau. The
rainfall has been gradually decreasing.
For 1889 It was A. Inches. 1890, 30 Inches;
1891. 81 inches; 1892, % Inches; 1898, u
Inches, for the eleven months 20 Je-
ccmber !, 1894. the rainfall has been ~
inches. But Notwithstanding the In
crease over last year the iro1ta nus
year has been more severe than last
and much suffering therelrom prcFuis,
OF the 81 inches of rain TINS year ~
= inches came In April and 9 In May.
There YOU have one Of the effects OF
tree slaughtering-une rain dis
trlbutlon. The rain that fell this year
came down In torrents, not the gentle
e showers that soak Into the soil, but
e carrying good soil from the hillsldes
: filing the rivers with rich SUI, eNpos'
T ing rocks and impoverishlng the farm
: dam built across the gullles would
: have caught much OF this rich aluvlnl
I soii the richest land on the farm Trees
and hedges planted In these critical
piaces would soon form natural bar
rlers. Trees Induce moisture and cause
I a better distribution Of the rainfall. y
: tree Is a pump and the amount O
Z water drawn UP through It's FAR pen
9 Grating roots and oyaporatcd Into the
: air from the many thousands OF leave,
2 IL enormous. / believe our climate anc
o agriculture Is suffering today from tht
[ sandal hand OF destruction. II u
n against reason, and the practical tes
v OF many European nations INT one car
L DESTROY a country lltANIA AuNhf'HN's
without paying the penalty Lot oul
4 farmers and those who have the inter
: eats OF our great state al heart ponce
. tbis matter Well II is high time ina
!, "a state we were taking some actor
. IN forestry matters The people mus
9 be educated in tree culture and warn III.
r Ing note must be sent throughout IN
!. slate Now that N. legislature # sool
: 10 meet LET our people demand that
forestry department be created 10 wori
=, IN connection with those Of other state
ana Inc government Remember Y
Z magnificent forestry display az IN
y ,yorid's fair and IN which Texas wa
! not represented, The basis Of AL on
D success Is agriculture. We had bette
y acononize IN other things than 10 ie
/ Ier sister forestry and horticulture az
e srom lnattention. Remember the waien
I yrord-forestry. Push Il IN yonr coun
Z ellis. W. SOOhi'i'i'
d SHOT IN THE SHOULDER
IS Negro Uses n Pistol AEni"s' ~
m Az Handle.