210 AMERICAN FORESTRY 



for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut the prodigal son, the scriptural swine, 



them down.) This Scriptural view seems and St. John, the Baptist), suggests 



to have been impressed on the Mediter- that we can use the allied bean-pro- 



ranean littoral lands. Professor Smith's ducing trees, honey locust and mesquite, 



attention was drawn some years ago to for crop development in America. This 



the fact that much more attention was is particularly the case because the 



being given to the growth in the Medi- mesquite has already become an im- 



terranean countries than here of harvest portant crop in Hawaii, where it yields 



yielding trees, and he went abroad from four to ten tons per acre a year, 



during the past year and made a very the bean meal selling for $25 a ton as a 



valuable study of this subject. As he substitute for bran. Both of these 



well says: American beans are greedily devoured 



" 'The immediately important reason by animals wherever they can be found.' 

 for the forestry movement is to prevent "Professor Smith urges that the ex- 

 an impending wood famine, but the ample of the Corsica Chestnut forest, the 

 ultimately important call for tree plant- Iberian cork and acorns, the carob, 

 ing is to prevent the wasting of hilly the mulberry and persimmon hog past- 

 lands and their destruction through ures, the Hawaiian mesquite, and other 

 erosion. This loss is irreparable. The promising nut and fruit bearing trees, 

 farmer is accordingly being urged to seems to indicate the easy possibility 

 reforest much of his steep land, which of the development of a fruitful forestry 

 should never have been cleared. The rather than a wood forestry, where the 

 argvunent in favor of this farm planting conditions are proper, so that we may 

 can be greatly strengthened if the have a plowless agriculture for steep 

 farmer is urged to plant trees which lands, and he emphasizes the great im- 

 will yield annual harvests rather than portance of the development of tree 

 the one final harvest of wood which grown forage crops. These suggestions 

 comes at the end of many years and are from letters from Professor Smith to 

 makes a relatively meagre average an- me personally, and are only indications 

 nual return.' of the fuller information and conclusions 



"Professor Smith tells us of grafted which we may hope he wi\l give us soon 



Chestnut forests on granitic mountain in published form of his original in- 



slopes in Corsica which cover large vestigations in this interesting phase 



areas as steep as the slopes of the of the forestry question." 

 Appalachians, and that this one crop 

 with the attending pasturage beneath 



the trees serves to keep a fairly dense Dr. Drinlcer closed his Oberlin address 



population in a prosperous condition — with the warning given in his Tome 



that a large proportion of the total address, that the public in studying 



pork product of the Iberian Peninsula is forestry and conservation should not be 



due to acorn food. He suggests that, led aside by sentiment or wrong doctrine, 



'The honey locust has a sugary food that the main lesson of the conservation 



aroiuid a nitrogenous bean with a of our natural resources is that they 



total analysis much like that of the shall not be locked up for the needs of 



widely grown carob or St. John's bread future generations to the exclusion of 



of the Mediterranean countries. The the needs of today and that we should 



carob bean sells for Ic a pound and is a remember, as epitomized by Dr. C. W. 



regiilar crop in extensive territories. Hayes, that conservation is " Utilization 



While the carob will not grow in with a maximiun efficiency and a 



America, its age-long success (it fed minimum waste." 



Roadside signs, each coytlaining a single catchy sentence in large type, are proving effective in 

 warning against fires on western forests. They give the essentials and tell the importance of protec- 

 tion against forest fires. 



