Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-03-31
ARsoR DAY PROCLAMATION.
Governor Adams Delegates April 18th NJ
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Governor Adams has issued his nn-
nual ArbOr Day proclamation setting
forth the third Friday In April ms the
day when citizens of the state should
plant nt least one tree. In few days
Professor Patton. the state supcrinten-
dent OF public instruction, will Issue
similar proclamation to the teachers
and school children throughout the
state. In her proclamation Professor
Patton will suggest to the teachers tllnt
they arrange literary and musical
program for that day ana Will ask the
children TO each plant II tree. The pro-
clnmntl0n issued by Governor Adams
reads as follows:
''In accord with the statutes I here
by designate Friday, April II. as Arior
Day. l earnestly invoke Its Intelligent
observance by every citizen OF Colo
RADIO. All interests could well AFFORD
to suspend for II day their regular avo-
cations and give the time to tree plant
Ing: no other Investment will pay II
more satisfactory dividend.
Tree planting Is II question OF pub
lie econOmy-an act Of patriotism.
Common sense and scliishness. NJ well
ms the statutes. should impel us to plant
trees.
''As the teachers give Instructions
suggested by the law. II lesson In bird
life would not bc inappropriate. \
child that loves and cares for trees.
flowers, birds, will never become bad
Citizen
Groves. blossoms and birds are ma
ture's pociry-thr music and art OF the
fields. In II trcclcss country you never
hear the celestial hnrmonics that Long
fellow and Lowell heard the wind
play among the trees. Inspiration, pat
riotism. manhood. are seldom the prod
ucis Of u trcclcsS land. No poet sings.
no artist dreams In Il country upon
which falls the shadow of neither tree
nor hill. Can we conceive of Il Chnucer.
Il Wndsw0rth. Il Scott or II LonSfcll0w
without forests?
NO one ever came to u trcclcSs cO,in-
try FOR pleasure. or remained but from
cOmpulsIon.
mo story of liberty that has not Its
trees: they blend with every memory
of life: they are iwincd upon the most
sacred of historic pages: they are SYM
| bols of every faith. Art. literature.
mythology draw from them some of
their richest beauty.
'All men hunger for Il monument:
there may he those more costly. but
none so useful, so sensible or beautiful
rs n tree. II carries not only sweet
memory of him who dropped the seed.
but pays II debt due the past and salts
fies an obligation which every mortal
owes to the future. The life of Il tree
touches Il more remote past and reaches
to n more distant future than any 9th
er living thing. Some of the cedars
of Lcbanan have lived through every
age of the Christian calendar. Olives
still grow upon the trees moistencd by
the tears of II weeping Christ in Geth-
semanc.
.'Thc destiny of Colorado will be
strongly Influenced by the science of
forestry and horticulture. With these
are allied the questions of rainfall, ir-
rigation, conservation of water, eli
mate.
Every planted acre of forest makes
possible the future irrigation and cult
walton of several acres now arid and
desolatc.
"Thc pleasant horticultural harvest
of 1897 demonstrates that orchard
planting satisfies the spirit of avarce
as well as sentiment. Trees In Colo
RADIO are not only an asset, but II bless
ing. Il benediction.
God has given lis valleys as rich as
Eden, mountains, skies and climate
that are ideal; we need but trees and
verdurc to become II home of beauty
and cnchantment. If for each one of
our half million population there
would be planted each year but single
tree. our descendants would soon revel
in true Edcnic land of beauty, hap
pincss and prosperity.
In witness whereof | have hercunto
set my hand and caused the great seal
of the state to be affixed this 22d day
of March, \. ID. 1898.
SALIVA ADAMS.
by the Governor: C. III. $. Whipple,
secretary of state