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mill, it is the cheapest and best supply, and the larger mills 

 can deliver a great quantity ; but if that is too uncertain in 

 any locality, the more costly steam-pump is wholly reliable. 



Why is it that villages do not have more of the smaller 

 windmills in them than now, to supply water for house- 

 hold purposes, and for watering the smaller flower and veo-- 

 etable gardens ? 



They will supply one or more houses for such purposes, 

 or the larger mills can be erected, jointly, to supply a 

 larger collection of houses. 



To again refer to tree planting, I will quote what Mr. 

 Brown of Stirling, Scotland, a practical and scientific for- 

 ester says: "At the present day the United States are 

 depending upon the wooded regions in Canada for the sup- 

 ply of their useful timbers ; and in that country, where so 

 much wood is necessarily consumed for fuel, the supply can- 

 not meet the demand for many years longer ; and it is now 

 the opinion of many who are well acquainted with the sub- 

 ject, that in a few years wood will not only be very scarce, 

 but at the same time very dear, — much beyond any price 

 we can form any adequate idea of at the present day." 



Consider what these statements contain, and wherein we 

 can profit by these evident facts. 



Fuel, lumber, railway sleepers and permanent forests are 

 what must directly result from the encouragement and appli- 

 cation of tree planting. 



Consider what relation the government bears to this mat- 

 ter. How can it prevent a man from cutting down his 

 woodlands before they are sufficiently matured, or when 

 they surround the source of a water supply ; or how can it 

 best insist that municipal or other corporations, which con- 

 trol water supplies, shall preserve or cultivate forests around 

 those sources, so as to protect or increase the quantity and 

 preserve the quality of its waters, which our people are asked 

 to use ? 



Is it not by echication, and by spreading that intelligence 

 among our citizens which makes them generally become 

 familiar with the truth in regard to such matters? 



Each individual must be educated up to a realization of 

 the value to him, personally and as a citizen, in preserving 



