Putnam patriot., 1909-06-18
Aid Asked 10 Reforest the Deasded Hills


 public interest to the great importsnc' of reforesiering the denBded areas o the country. and asks the assistance Ol the united people to help Tn the i'm portant movement. by uniting with Il in every effort made for that purpose IL has organized a special Forestry Bu. reau 10 carry on the great work by dis semiuafinK general information OB the subject and bs offering such assistance as will enable ihose willing to engage in such service, how Il may ee done io the gfeaiest advantage to fhe Indiyid. ual and te the nalion-
 1 Connecticut $ lending its aasialance to the work. and there Are several areas laid of Tor feiofestenng, which are ob- teet lessans ta be 3 guide to ali sho de- sire io set out trees or to learn bow to deai with Rrotes or forests to make them most profitable while increasing their nsefulness as lumbef.pfoducing forests.
 There are also organizations of public spirited citizens who willingly devote their services to assist in the movement because ef its immense importance 10 Inc present a8d future weii-being Of their country.
 The Bureau Of Forestry 0f the Agri. cultural Department, sends out weekly from Washington, articles relating 10 the work being done in forestry, and to promote greater interest and how to educate volunteer bodies desiring to be instructed 10 help in the useful object. These are sent to the press of the conn- try, requesting their publication as far as possible. We are glad to comply with this request as far as our space allows, as duty we owe the govern ment and to the public.
 This week we print one of these arti. cies entitled aTeachers In Cooperate with Forest Service. which our read ers will lind to be useful in learts.ang one phase of what Is being done to ed ucate and extend useful information among the people.
 We believe an organization of this character by the teachers of this and adjoining towns, to comply with the invitation nf the nited States Eares. ter, te co operate with the Forest Ser. vice in n special line of its work, would receive the appreciation and cordial support of the public, and would be A great benefit to those who would ea. gage III such useful sefk ice. Our Putnam teachers might test the likely. | hood of such an organization being | formed by extending an invitation to 1 them Tn this city to discuss the ques- ton. II approved the organization would he placed in immediate eonnec- ton with the Forest Service, and re- ceiye such documents as will contribute to their success, and such others as vii be printed containing the results o their labors together with those Of oth CT like organizations. The invitation [, engage in such iaudable national ser vice should not be refused until fai discussion is held in regard to It's feasi billty.
 Fly the mass of people the subject O Forest Service K one not affecting them individually. But indirectly, | not directly, IL does affect every one Everything bought in the lumber lin, costs more today than Il did few year agu. Cord wood to burn costs double what il did formerly And there ar conditions that the domolishing Qf ou forests impose loss on every one, Q which We have "horfid object les son in the present condition of thina It Is the most treeless country in thu world. In consequence of which th' treeless hills and mountains arc wash eel clean of soil and as there K nothinl to retain water in the uplands il rnshei down with such force into the valley as to carry of the soil there also, ans then into the rivers. IL Is then carried | ing the pfuductiyeuess of the land. \, vast are the volumes of waters sudden ly poured into the large rivers, that Nil lages and cities, along their banks, ar, swept Into destruction, occasionally de stroying hundreds of thousands of lives Then, consequently, follows dtonght' and famines of such wide extent tha the civilized countries are called upon to help save the millions of famine pe rishing people-as ours was two o three years ago
 The same condition of things woul, he brought upon our land, II the fofest continue to be demolished as they hav' been, without replacement. To an eN tent such destructive floods, produce, trom the same causes as those in China have been experienced in this eountr,
 notably last year, on the Ohio, Nils sippi and other Western rivers, whei cities and villages were flooded to sucl an extent as to cause The loss of hun dreds of millions of dollars of propcrt, and many lives.
 We have not, in this vicinity, suffer cd to any visible extent from floods but we arc preparing the way for then by the rapid disappearing of the tree from our hills, and often from the low lands. The demand for lumber keep increasing and the supply diminish