Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1869 — Agricultural and Domestic. [ARTICLE]

Agricultural and Domestic.

Forest Cultivation. Anlerkan foTtMs once , tl|Bt richest, iahpritanee that Di vine. Providence ever bestow* i ed on n people, have been■ Hivvpt a.wax before the march of civilisation to such an extent, that it has already I»ee6me a qniMion of serious import, •‘whence 'hull come the supply *W»r future generations 1” N<» rational answer can be given other than to enter immediate, ly upon the work of timber planting. Thi* i» necessary, I>oth for prot<*rtiou. and timIe r n>r ( mechanical purposes. With the present and ive (Temaud, mid coii*uiiiption of Ttniiber. ail the accessible pine timber ijiis side of the Rocky Mountains will soon Inexhausted One <: f our most intellige>it int-n .-sselts t hat, taking the ratio of consumption pf nine lumber from the pineries of -r the last five years, the whole »4’ ihote mighty, forests will be exhausted in ten \eai-. The rm:rke£ of Chkago alone w i 11’.recei re ,at nous and~mi Hi on feet of lumber thi' y-ar.j . -'allowing tai.'to be < >ue-<iUart'-r.of all that is taken i; ,m our forests this year, four thousand million feet will be the amount. This amount must increase in a Geometrical ratio, and in less than thirty*wars the last “Requieni of tlje Pine” will have 'been sGDiz.vffitS’e now all our resources of pine lie. Individuate,*. stutes. and the nation too, should awake to the approaching want. There is a. remedy only in a system of forest culture. .In less than half a century forests as extensive and valuable as the original pine forests may be produced of the ■White Pine end European Larch, Plants I rat one foot in length, set in plantation, will become trees in less than fifty years, of one hundred feet in { height, and three feet in diam<;ter. both of Lurch and Pine. The torn er is the most valuable timber tree in the world.— t T>. C. Scofield in IJ'Z’/Z/ocX’.s Horticultural Jtei>rdei‘.