AFFORESTATION
A LESSON FROM FRANCE. Franco has taught tho world many lessons in regard to afforestation and ■rural education, and it has now demonstrated a most valuable means of combining those two essential movements. Tho movement in question is in great measure due to the influence of tho wealthy and powerful Touring dub de France, which has promoted tho foundation of Juvenile Foresters’ l Societies among tho schools, every member of which binds himself to plant a tree a year in tho commune. By'this means 222,515 trees were planted in tho department of the Juna and 110,800 trees in. tho Doubs in 1907. The importance of this movement can scarcely bo over-esti-mated, for in tho afforestation of waste lands lies a sure source of wealtfi. The value of forest lands may be illustrated by the case of a small commune in tho Jura mountains, whose forests, at one time almost unproductive, now yield, as the result of assiduous replanting, such a handsome revenue as not only to pay all local rates jind taxes, but in 1908 to provide a
bonus of Li a head for every inhabitant.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7025, 13 January 1910, Page 3
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187AFFORESTATION New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7025, 13 January 1910, Page 3
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