AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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Big Wichita at certain times during the 

 year is a torrential stream, carrying some 

 silt, and an analysis shows that except at 

 very low stages the water is of very goo' 1 

 quality, being practically free from alkali. 

 It has an annual discharge of from 200,000 

 to 1,000,000 gallons, and the mean rainfall 

 for the vicinity for a number of years is 

 27 inches. The country to be irrigated 

 surrounds the hustling oil and gas city of 

 Wichita Falls, and irrigation means that 

 the crops of cereals, cotton, and fruits that 

 are now grown will be produced in more 

 abundance and with a greater degree of 

 certainty of success. 



Success as it has come to the big irriga- 

 tion constructions in the last few years is 

 due largely to the Board of Water Engi- 

 neers, and to it goes the credit for the 

 advancement in this work that has taken 

 place throughout the State. Since the war 

 presentments have been filed for a various 

 number of projects, especially from the 

 lower Rio Grande valley; projects begun 

 before the war are being renewed ; in 

 short irrigation instead of decreasing in 

 Texas seems to be entering upon a period 

 of great advancement. 



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SHADE TREE LAWS 



T'HE man who recently wrote to the Sec- 

 retary of the New York State Forestry 

 Association at Syracuse, New York, and 

 told him that the authorities in charge ot en- 

 forcement of the shade tree laws of the State 

 were "saving at the spiggot and losing at 

 the bung" may go on record as the citizen 

 who precipitated the action that led to the 

 needed reform in the matter of shade trees. 



An editorial in the August issue of New 

 York Forestry, official journal of the New 

 York State Forestry Association, argues that 

 this so-called bung leakage is not in the bar- 

 rel of any one organization or State Depart- 

 ment ; that it is a loss sustained by the whole 

 people of the State, and one which the peo- 

 ple themselves must remove by driving in 

 the bung with a brand new shade tree law. 



It appears that a land owner residing on 

 any country road may cut down noble oaks, 

 elms and other trees along the highway 

 for cord wood, plow the land to the very 

 edge of the road without interference, and 

 that the law has permitted him to set out 

 saplings in the sprr 3 and get 25 cents 

 each in reduction of taxes. Public Service 

 corporations also have certain rights under 

 the law which seem to work to the" disad- 

 vantage of private citizens seeking to beau- 

 tify the highway adjoining their property 

 by planting valuable trees. 



The State Forestry Association will sub- 

 mit a proposition to its entire membership 

 this fall by letter ballot, with a view to 

 determining whether codification and re- 

 vision of the State's shade tree laws shall 

 be one of the objectives in the winter cam- 

 paign for necessary forestry legislation. 

 The Association is appealing for the sup- 

 port of all citizens who are interested. 



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