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CONSERVATION 



tains are worth $8,000,000 a year. Such 

 famous places as Crawford Notch are rapidly 

 being made hideous by the cutting away of 

 the forests. 



It is a pleasure to see that the Senate has 

 recently passed a bill appropriating $5,000,000 

 for beginning the purchase of lands in the 

 Southern Appalachian and White Mountains. 



Our trees must be considered as a crop 

 which needs to be replanted if we would 

 have it continually, and not as something 

 which we may forever cut down and never 

 exhaust. We must face the fact that with- 

 out forests we can have neither fertile soil 

 nor navigable rivers, and hence without for- 

 ests we shall become an impoverished nation. 

 HENRY GREGORY ALLYN. 



May 17, 1908. 



Eucalyptus Growing 



EDITOR CONSERVATION : 



I spent most of last winter in south- 

 ern California, and devoted a large part 

 of the time to a study of the eucah p- 

 tus. I found, as claimed by grower^, 

 100 or more species and distinct variet- 

 ies nearly all of which are grown suc- 

 cessfully where they can get a supply 

 of soil moisture sufficient to produce 

 farm crops, and where the temperature 

 does not fall more than three degrees 

 to six degrees below freezing. They 



are grown extensively for fuel, wind 

 breaks, street shade and ornamental 

 trees, and are now being largely planted 

 for railroad ties, telegraph poles, lum- 

 ber, and many other uses. But ex- 

 perience, as it appears, has not yet fully 

 established the value of the different 

 species for the various purposes, and 

 there is a considerable diversity of opin- 

 ion as to their relative merits. There 

 are many species of very rapid growth, 

 making annually from three to six 

 times as much wood as the best of our 

 < astern forest and ornamental trees, 

 and while it is doubtful if the enormous 

 profits claimed by some promoters will 

 ever be realized. I believe that as a 

 business, whenever soil and climate are 

 suitable, the growing of eucalyptus will 

 be reasonably profitable. It may be 

 profitably grown on all suitable lands 

 that would otherwise remain unoccu- 

 pied, and every landowner and home- 

 maker should plant more or less for 

 shade and ornament, wind breaks, fenc- 

 ing, fuel, and various other uses for 

 which trees and their products are al- 

 ways in demand. 



S. T. KlLSEY. 



Las Cruces, N. Mex. 



