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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



February 



broader they get \vhy, the deeper 

 and broader still they get ; and they 

 are continually multiplying them- 

 selves. Xo\v, there is nothing but the 

 bare earth to check the force of the 

 water, and small streams gather in 

 every little depression, to dig it deep- 

 er and broader, week by week, and 

 month by month. In union there is 

 strength, for water as well as any- 

 thing else, and it tells its story here. 



Every little drop of water gets a lit- 

 tle soil. Lots of little drops of water, 

 get a pebble. Lots more of little drops 

 of water, with their multiplying 



amount of soil, get a stone; and still 

 more of the little drops of water -et 

 a -mall boulder. Down they go. mer- 

 rily, to the stream, down goes the 

 stream to the river, then to the ocean 

 or gulf; and with them, eventually, 

 the soil, the pebble, the -tone, and the 

 >mall boulder. 



The stone and small boulder may 

 go in piece-, yet they go; and on the 

 way they fill the -tream- and river-. 

 The White Mountain-Appalachian 



I Jill was drawn up for the express 

 purpose i if preventing thi- de-truc- 

 tion. by cutting the forest in such a 

 way that the -oil will always be pro- 

 tected from thi> ero-ion. and a plenti- 

 ful supply of trees will be kept for the 

 use of our children and our children's 

 children. 



I see by a local paper that one of 

 our Congressional representatives has 

 secured a much-coveted place on the 

 Committee on Rivers and Harbor-. 

 \\ hat should a man do when he has 

 secured a position on the Committee 

 on River- and Harbor- ? 



Xo\v, a man from this State, and a 

 great many other States along the line. 



will wish to get a good, big Appropri- 

 ation i capital A i for the dredging of 

 the Ohio, and also the .Mississippi. 

 One complements the other. 



Well, that is all right; they need 

 dredging, but where on this earth are 

 we g.'ing to stop dredging? 1 5y neg- 

 lecting the problem, what cause- the 

 necessity of dredging, and sticking to 

 the dredging itself, to the exclusion of 

 all else, our representatives lead one 

 to think that they consider the leak at 

 the bunghole a small matter compared 

 with the leak at the spigot. 



.Man dredges; and from her waste 

 and wasted lands, old Xature is till- 

 in- in. Man drcd-c- ; and old Xa- 

 ture. trom tho-e ever-increasing fur- 

 rows, continues to fill in. I ; a-ter and 

 faster, -he tills in : and in the mean- 

 time, she takes a little .spare time to 

 have Moods, which de-troy not only 

 the hi aise> and the manufactories on 

 the banks of the river, but also the 

 farm-, depo-iting on the fertile land 

 the pebbles and -tone- which she has 

 left over fnun her right with the 

 dredger-. 



Silly, isn't it? Xot on Xature'- 

 part, for she i- only getting revenge 

 for our mi-n-e of her. I '.ut it i- silly 

 < if man. 



\\liy not allv ourselves with her? 

 Why not save ourselves, the loss of 

 lives, goods, and land-? Why do so 

 much dredging To no purpose? 



I ' >r. i ild i 'nek' Sam ! There h 

 being plundered ri-ht before- our eye-; 

 and the man who puts in hi- vote for 

 large -nm- for dredging and lets the 

 bill die in committee feels very com- 

 placent and thinks he has. done a big 

 thing for his country. Millions for 

 tribute, but not one cent for defense! 

 I >ueer. i-n't it ? 



