THE NEW EARTH 



And so it is going throughout the other 

 states, everywhere these beginnings of forests, 

 following the splendid stimulations of the 

 scientific men of the New Earth, who have so 

 unselfishly been at work to spread among the 

 people what may be termed practical knowl- 

 edge, as distinguished from that which is emi- 

 nently true and sound, but is not so arranged, 

 digested and set forth as to be of real help to 

 the people. 



In addition to its own individual work, the 

 Kansas Station has worked in cooperation with 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry of the national 

 government, both in planting trees and in 

 testing tree seeds; the state, as well as the 

 nation, thus reaping doubly from the experi- 

 ments. Here all manner of problems incident 

 to making prairie forests are worked out. The 

 results are of marked aid to the service. 



Kansas has been visited by disastrous floods, 

 and forestry is being called into play to pre- 

 vent them. In France, a century ago, forestry 

 came to the aid of the people in a somewhat 

 similar way. Along the French coasts, for 

 centuries, the sand had been encroaching upon 

 the fertile regions, converting them into a 



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