they have become firmly rooted. The ends of the woven wire should 

 be made fast to wire cables running back over the bank some distance, 

 and fastened to posts set firmly in the ground. The caving and erosion 

 of the bank will soon round off its top corners, and the growing willows 

 at the water's edge will catch the soil as it rolls down the declivity, 

 causing a bank to form of just the right slope to resist erosion most 

 effectually. The following diagram illustrates the method of fastening 

 the poles to the wire. 



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Fig. 1.— Revetment for protecting river bank. 

 IMPORTANCE OF BEGINNING NOW. 



It is urgently recommended that landholders begin operations at 

 once for the reclamation of their injured lands. If these lands are 

 planted to forest trees, in twenty years' time the soil will have been 



