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ILLINOIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



While farmers of the present day are more intelligently 

 conducting their hill farms, there yet remains much to be 

 desired in the conservation of the steep slopes — formerly 

 all forest, but in many cases now deforested on the assump- 

 tion that thereby much pasture is gained. And yet these 

 same uncovered slopes, even without cultivation, often 

 show great gullies started from some well-trodden cow- 

 path and now assuming very threatening proportions, so 

 that in future years, unless controlled, they will result in 

 wreckage of valuable farm assets. 



Special Examples of Forested Areas. 

 No 1 Map Area. 



By reference to Map No. 1 the extent of the present for- 

 est areas may be seen for the township of Warren and 

 adjacent parts of Kush and Nora townships, covering an 



