58 LITTLE WANDERERS. 
The turpentine makers, however, cut them as long as 
they will yield sap, because it is easier to stay in one 
place three years than to move their camps to a region 
of fresh trees. This is wrong, and will result in destroy- 
ing the valuable Southern pine forests in a short time. 
We should take care of the trees, for they are our 
good friends. Besides providing wood for all sorts of 
uses, they protect the earth, keep it moist, and prevent 
the streams from drying up. In many places the farm- 
ing land has been destroyed, because the forests were 
cut down when the land all about dried up, so that noth- 
ing of value to man could grow on it. 
With proper management trees can be cut for use 
without destroying the forests. 
