FORESTRY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 14

FORESTRY.

to Titn nniron, Sir,— The vnlnablo lcrtllmg jiilirlo m youv i^uo of (lie lOlh Insl, klidmlil inspire soriotin Ihoughl in thoso who lih\o >n\y rogfird for Ilia futmv. With .your kind porniiwiiiii, 1 will Niippleiiioiil (your( your ivinni'ks wilh a few hinta doimcd fimn ioports on (he subject in ollici' piut.s of Ilio planet. Enough lins «lr«itjy boon wrlllon regarding tho rnonnoilA \vn*!o in (he pM ; (hose iwponsiblo fur it could )t«\o h.nl no thought of tho future. As gunnh In (ho I'ivcv-tlnw of (he plains, fomMR mo ul inostimnblo value, 11 ml tho loss »»f ilm mountain forcsU or our found y mu^l jnovc dinnsdoun to thn foilihty of Ilio noil in (lu> valleys. 1l f-ccnis noi willioud drnign ilinl \)w wntoiTouvsrs 1 lsf 111 (lio hill foictl, sinro (hosp aro Iho li.ilitnio whorls of tho rivrm, tho louuladm? (UttMicy d» lvtnin (lio ruins, «ml jiclil (lioir w.itiMw in n quid llow insto.id ul in di".olnting toriviilfi. Tho tows(-<vi\oioil hill lms for 0110 of iUs missioiiH 1 lio 11 I(cntion of ilio rnins, whioh perrolato slowly thiough (ho 111111. of fnllrn lo.ivos, mul (lie oovcrm^ of tho soil, grndunly fording tho s|)i'ingH nnd ntronm^, whiloimioh of tho water is relumed di (ho an 1 tlnou^U lenf evnpomlion. Tho slioWK of wiulor ore lilv«'\vifio retained, and molt in tho heights, but slowly, 'Ilm forcst-donuncd lullk, on tho tontrarv puffer the raini Io I'Umli ni onoo into tho stronniß, swelling them Biiddi nly, «nd d.inßD'oU/slv. Tlip wiow likrwc-o I\ . ing on bnie hillsides mells wilh pruioin rapidity under Ilio llrnt \\ntn\ mn or spring, pouvm waters in torrents into lln> Alirn?im, .itxi mrtkos itßolf foil id nn.vhiof fur below. Nor i« this tho only dnnin^o. TIIO niountnlns, onre Aliipnetl ol (lioir tiTPS. soon boconio lobbfd of thoir sml, ftiul incapable of future forest growl h. The work which nnturo hnn done Ihmugli agos of *low Roil-lnulding is often undone, hv a few yearn of man n' civilising mllucnoo. TIIO real question i«, how |i Ihh <10. Atruction to bo n voided 7 The (Inxoin. mem is doing n little, hut Is ih.n |iitl,> sufllcietit? In parti of Kuroi>e ohimmnh (ivn methodß uro in jirogivss. l''iimoe and somo other round too are Reeking to ro-nfforost tho nill«, but (he pronw musi, necessnvily bo 11 slow olio. Tho Mopes aro terraced, nnd (lie descending whloim made to How slowly back nnd foitli In lateral channels, thus )>rove»i(iii|? (li.-n-rnpid descent (0 the yhhw, and l.nourlnn the accumulnlloll of soil nnd (ho giowih of tho trees, which ore planted on (|\p terraces, In America much encouingpMont l« being oivon to tree-planting, with very good results. 'Jho Government) of this colony f OlllO years ago made offers to M tiers' in (hn way of giving (hem aero for iioro lor each •01m planted with trees. Why (his encourngomentwjiN discontinued wo know not. Arbor '])ny sees perhaps a fen (tcrw planted, but (his effort. cn.u never move of very great voluo, Wore aoido of tlio hill', any, round this city, planted, the brnotit, when they beoamo matured would he incalculable. Ono grout, diimngo nrisrn from tho grazing of animnlH on hill foieats, which results iivivmtvc loes of wed- !'"« ,l»ln'it«i even droop cnunc injuiy of this kind, Ilio shmp hoofs are answerable for trending out tho wots of (ho grasses, nnd othor pronnial plants, nnd I ho soil, deprived of ita vegetable covering, is soon wiwshbd invny, and nol only is tho possibility of future forests destroyed, but. the fcrtilo plains below nro buried under the gravel nnd snnd swe))!, from tho bare Mountain Bides.— l nm, etc, Wollmglon, 12th Pebrimrv, I'JOo.