14 DA VET'S PRIMER 



Come boss ! Come boss ! 



Gracious! children, don't you think this is a fine 

 herd of cows ? After having filled themselves with nice, 

 fresh grass, these "bossies" take great pleasure under 

 the shade of these beautiful maple trees. This is a 

 grove of what is known as the "Rock" or "Sugar 

 Maple." Farmers bore holes into this kind of maple 

 trees, along in February or March, and the sap runs 

 out, is caught in pails, and then boiled down into syrup 

 and sugar. Ohio, and several other states, used to have 

 large numbers of these majestic beauties ; and they also 

 had walnut, oak, ash, wild cherry, and many other 

 valuable kinds of trees. People needed farms, and 

 some of the forests had to be cut down, but they used 

 very poor judgment. 



What do you think they did? Why, they cut down 

 some of the finest trees and called their neighbors to 

 help them roll those splendid logs together, and set fire 

 to them and burned them up ! Millions of dollars 

 worth of the best kinds of lumber were in this way de- 

 stroyed, and that is not the worst that has happened ; 

 on account of destroying the forests the surface of the 

 earth is laid bare, and drys up and when it does rain, 

 the water rushes into the rivers and creates great and 

 destructive floods. 



At Marietta, Ohio, I was shown a place where, last 

 fall, a traction engine went through the river without 

 putting out the fire. Shortly after, the water was 

 forty-six feet deep at the same place ! As you children 

 grow into manhood and womanhood you must study 

 how to plant new forests on land that is now going to 



