ELEMENTS OF FORESTRY 
WITH SUGGESTIONS. 
The object of Forestry is not to preserve 
intact the virgin forests, and thus deprive 
man of the use of its products, such as wood 
required for fuel, the making of charcoal, 
building of vessels, houses, carriages, fences, 
etc., its use for railroad ties, telegraph poles, 
mining purposes, bark for tanning, and the 
manufacture of numberless large and small 
wares for the use and convenience of man. 
It designs to teach the best way to glean rich 
and ample harvests of lumber, or even to re¬ 
move large areas of forests where the lands 
are fertile, accessible, and well adapted to 
agriculture, for clearing of roads, for the lay¬ 
ing out of towns and cities. 
Its design is to protect and save the boun¬ 
teous rainfall by maintaining the forests on 
high mountain slopes, because the rainfall is 
greatest there—there the rivers take their rise. 
Remove the forests, and the waters drain off 
so rapidly that dangerous floods occur, caus¬ 
ing avalanches and mountain slides, sweeping 
everything before them, taking away vast 
quantities of the real forest floor, leaving an 
irreparable, barren, rocky waste, a menace to 
man and beast, causing more frequent, earlier, 
and heavier frosts, droughts, sudden changes 
in temperature, severe hail-storms—all work¬ 
ing constant injury to the diligent bread¬ 
winner on the lower levels. The people of 
California may take a hint from the interest 
in forestry in the east. There is seldom a 
lack of rainfall there, and nature provided it 
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