Forest Lumbered Twenty Years Ago to a Diameter of Fourteen Inches, Now Ready for Another Cutting 



ural consequences will be an ever- 

 lessened vegetation. 



This all leads us to a perfect under- 

 standing of the words of Hinrnan when 

 he says : "It is seen that all deserts 

 correspond to regions of very light 

 rainfall, and that the regions of heaviest 

 forests are in regions of heaviest rain- 

 fall." With a lessened vegetation fol- 

 lows a decrease of the organic constit- 

 uents of the soil ; making it more per- 

 meable, and bringing it nearer to that 

 state of which Winchell tells us in his 

 World-Life, where the earth, during 

 the latter stages of its history, will ab- 

 sorb all moisture from its face. With 

 all this before us it is time to awaken 

 to an understanding of the immutable 

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laws of nature, and to change those 

 systems which are hastening the prog- 

 ress onward to that ultimate state of 

 barrenness. 



This region of which we here write, 

 the northern section of the Central 

 States, is by nature adapted to the 

 growth of pines, with which it was 

 originally covered ; though in parts it 

 may produce other trees. To this we 

 may add that it is almost worthless 

 when considered from a standpoint of 

 agricultural pursuits. As a forest it 

 would preserve the local humidity in its 

 cycle of useful service, thus giving pro- 

 ductiveness to the regions around ; and 

 with conservative methods it would 

 yield an almost unlimited supply of 



