THK <TL1 1VATIOX OF TKKKS A- AH '!.. , IV, THK FARM. 44.S 



forest culture, we are otherwise obliged to give it a place in our rural 

 economy. It is especially applicable to any country that has been a fuivst 

 ly nature, where in some things nature has been unthinkingly trampled 

 upon, and where agricultural progress now demands the aid of her sister 

 nee arboriculture. We are not singular in these matters, and can 

 sympathise with 



WHAT is r.niv; DONE IN THE CONSERVATION AND REPLANTING Of 

 FORESTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES. 



There is no country whatever that has made its agricultural history 

 and does not now complain of want of trees. India, Australia, Europe 

 and the United States, all tell their story of overclearance, of the need of 

 conserving, and of the necessity of replanting. Their greater years than 

 ours has given experience that should encourage, and dismiss all doubts 

 on our part. The effects of judicious re-clothing are already subjects of 

 congratulation, and of yearly revenue in competition with agriculture, so 

 much so indeed with some that the other is not uncommon talk with pro- 

 prietors. India has her standing army of foresters, trained to all cunning 

 \lvan matters, at European schools; Australia can already boast of 

 it- "Forest Board," its conservator of forests, tree nurseries, extensive 

 enclosures planted and to be planted, and a whole system of arboriculture 

 nost encouraging kind, and the United States, though doing more 

 talk than spade work, are unquestionably on the very margin of a revolu- 

 tion, they have not gone through the forest without "seeing some fire- 

 wood." 



THK On.! i ;CTS OF CONSERVING AND REPLANTING AUK M>T A new, 



M t people think of trees, first of all, as mcan^ of sli.-h.T-un-l.i- seve- 

 ral i<>nn^. \\V like .shelter for buildings, shade for ourselves, shelter and 

 ie for animals in the field and shelter for farm crops. These a! 

 ild make up a large value in any district where required, and would 

 justify all ii ad subHequeni attendance. Vet, we have another as- 



of tie- iju.-stiori that takes an equally strong place in our regard : 

 is nut alone a matter of great outside causes, but one intimately 

 to local intiu "neivs, among which i pre-eminent. We have 



no tiin.- to >huw how t"inperature, rain-fall moisture, and evapora- 

 : are directly influenced by a smaller largo surface of trees ! 



v form is in the hands of trees for local distribu- 

 tion. This second duty of forestry as a science and practice would even 



