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Gerinany hikI Switzerland also iiiaiiitaiii a wise control over their 

 foi'ests. Similar jirotfction of tlie forests of this country slionld be 

 enacted. One very noticeal)le thing in this state and country is the 

 extreme waste of tlie forest resources. This is seen from the time tlie tree 

 is cut in the wdods until what remains ol' it is issued in the hnished 

 product. 



Tliis is not the ca.se in soine foreign coinitries. and should serve as a 

 useful lesson to the state. (Jreat service has 'khmi rendered to the state 

 already l>y those who have worked to have the present Indiana forestry 

 laws enacted <ind by those who by instructnm or advice haxc endeavored 

 to further the cause of forestry in India.na. 



Notwithstanding the presence of other factors which may help to 

 produce or ]»i'event floods, the fact remains as has been sufficiently out- 

 lined in this paper by various examples, that deforestation is by far the 

 greatest canse of floods. The examples have shown that where forests are 

 l^resent floods are practically absent, and as the forests are removed the 

 floods become moi'e numerous and de.structi\('. 



Probably the most thoi-ough study thus far of any single stream in 

 this respect is that made by M. < >. Leii;liton-' for the Tennessee Kiver. 

 The same state of affairs exists in Indiana, and e\ery effort should be pui 

 forth to remedy the danger. The one great (^lement of success will lie in, 

 the proper education of the public to the disastrous results of i-eckless 

 deforestation and the benefits of tJn-est preservation. As lOlliott \\<'ll saj.s: 

 "Probably our forests are in no woi'.se condition today than those of Ger- 

 many and France two hundred \cars ago, when those nations liegan refor- 

 estation. Success ci'owned theii- efforts and shoidd ours if we put forth 

 the same endeavors."-'' 



"Lei hton, M. (). Floods in the I'nited States. Cited Irom Hail and Maxwell, !. c. pp. 5-6. 

 ^•Elliiott, .Simon B., 1 r. p. I.';. 



