2IO FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. May, 



Professor L,. G. Carpenter, of Fort Col- clearly evident than the fact that there 

 lins, Colorado, for definite proof. I is any material change in the maximum 

 simply wish to call your attention to the discharge, as the different years vary so 

 fact that anything that tends to retard widely in the amount of precipitation 

 the flow of our streams, making the upon which the run-off depends, al- 

 maximum flow later than it would though here, too, the indications are 

 otherwise be, is in the nature of reser- that the maximum discharge comes 

 voiring the water supply, and that for earlier in the year than it did previously, 

 this reason the preservation of our for- A comparison of the statistics at hand 

 ests with this object in view is of the illustrates two facts : First, that forest- 

 utmost importance to all irrigating dis- ation, by tending to equalize the flow 

 tricts. in our streams and retarding the maxi- 

 I am satisfied that if our observations mum stage, will be of the utmost assist- 

 had been kept up long enough upon our ance in furnishing the water at the time 

 streams the records would demonstrate when it is most needed for irrigation, 

 the fact that where the forests have and, further, by increasing the minimum 

 been removed the run-off has been more amount it naturally permits of increas- 

 violent early in the season and the dis- ing those crops which require the most 

 charge almost nothing in the later part, water late in the season, these crops 

 whereas originally there was a much being in many instances our most valu- 

 more steady flow for the summer able agricultural products. The second 

 months. I have man}^ figures that fact suggested is that even under the 

 would seem to indicate this fact, but most favorable conditions there will still 

 it is impossible to generalize from the be a vast surplus of water which cannot 

 measurements of any individual year be used to advantage unless the floods 

 orforany short period of years. In the are stored in artificial reservoirs. So 

 records which I have a generalization that in our slogan, "Save the forests 

 seems to indicate at least that the mini- and store the floods," we have two ani- 

 mum flow of streams where the forests mating impulses which are not merely 

 have been burned off is very much less akin, but which are so closely akin that 

 than the minimvim flow of 3-ears before they will prove to be like the twin 

 the damage had been done, and that the brothers, Castor and Pollux, of old, 

 minimum stage comes much earlier in who shall conquer and reclaim arid 

 the year. This fact is much more America. 



LUMBERING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



By Albert W. Cooper and T. S. Woolsey, Jr. 



BROADLY speaking, there are two The operations of J. E. Henry & 

 methods of lumbering which for Sons, North Woodstock, N. H., are an 

 generations have been practiced in New instance of clear cutting. They have 

 England. The one is clear cutting. applied this method of lumbering partly 

 The other, through limitation of size owing to their nearness to market, so that 

 of stumpage, allows a fresh crop every nearly everything can be utilized, and 

 dozen years or so. This, in many cases, partly because their land for the most 

 approaches the ideal of the scientific part contains spruce timber. A pulp- 

 forester. It is customary in the great mill run in connection with their saw- 

 lumber state of Maine. Now, however mill enables them to use the spruce unfit 

 one may regard these two methods, the for timber. 



practical processes in both, of getting Their tract is a large one, situated in 

 the tree from the stump to the mill, are the Franconia Notch, and running up- 

 alike interesting. over the slopes of the Franconia Moun* 



