Forests Cannot Wholly Control Waterflow: Reservoirs Afford Valuable Supplements. 

 A Reservoir at Hartford, Conn. (Page 666) 



The German forests are producing 

 four times as much annual growth per 

 acre as ours and, while the Germans are 

 stocking their forests with the most val- 

 uable trees, and improving the product, 

 we are stripping our forests of what- 

 ever is worth the cutting and leaving 

 the least valuable for future growth and 

 forest renewal. 



A few years more of such practise 



and, if one would get a good carriage, 



farm implement, or utensil of any kind 



made wholly or partly of wood, it may 



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become necessary to see that it is "made 

 in Germany." 



In Los Angeles, lately, I went through 

 the yards and found considerable quan- 

 tities of lumber imported from Japan 

 and the Philippines, and was told by 

 the dealers that, while nominally it cost 

 the same as American lumber, they got 

 a better quality for the same grade. 



It was jjrobably for the same reason 

 that shiploads of railroad ties were 

 coming into San Pedro, the port for 

 Los Angeles, from across the Pacific. 



