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growing and maturing. I do not advise restriction 

 to those two species of timber, but I insist that a 

 young plantation of forest trees may and should 

 yield a clear income in every year after its fourth. 



CRIMINAL TREATMENT OF TREES 



ANONYMOUS 



THE REV. MR. EGLESTON once called attention, in 

 a forcible and sensible way, to the reckless and crim- 

 inal treatment of our forests in general and of our 

 good friends the trees in particular. His simple 

 statement that nothing in nature except a man is 

 more valuable than a tree, reminds one of the late 

 Edward Jaff ray's judgment that only killing a man 

 was worse than cutting down a tree. The Laurel 

 Hill Association seems likely to become foremost 

 among societies for the prevention of cruelty to trees. 

 The need of active measures to defend these pre- 

 servers of our springs, these guardians of our rivers, 

 these shelterers of our fields and gardens, from 

 wanton outrage and careless, thriftless despoiling, 

 is forcing itself on public attention, a cry of protest 

 that gains force from the desolating fires among 

 the Western pines, and the miserable pillage of our 

 own Adironack preserves. 



Arbor Day in the public schools is doing some- 

 thing toward the replenishing of treeless regions, 



