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A PRIMKK oF FORFSTRY. 



-mi ; 9Efl OF Tin-: FOKF.ST. 



A forest, large or small, may render its service in 

 many ways. It may reach its highest usefulness by 

 standing as a safeguard against Hoods, winds, snow 

 slides. moving sands, or especially against the dearth 

 of water in the >t reams. A forest used in this way is 

 called a protection forest, and is usually found in the 

 mountains, or on bleak, open plains, or n y the sea. 

 I - Forests which protect the 



headwaters of st reams 

 used for irrigation, and 

 many of the larger wind- 

 .fff breaks of the Western 



*&yjrJB&J&** fi plains, are protection for- 

 ests. The Adirondack and 

 Cat-kill woodlands were re- 

 garded as protection fore-!- 

 by the people of the State of 

 New York when the} 7 for- 

 bade, in the constitution of 

 1895, the felling.dest ruction, 

 or removal of any trees from 

 the State Forest Preserve. 

 A farmer living directly on the produce of his land 

 would tind his woodlot most useful to him when it 

 >upplied the large-t amount of wood for his peculiar 

 in-.MU. or the be>t gra/ing for hi- cattle. A railroad 

 holding land which it did not wish to sell would per- 

 haps tind it nnt useful when it produced the greatest 

 number of tie- and bridge timbers. In b< th cases the 

 would render it- hot service by producing the 



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