. Europe and other continents . and the axe — ashas been done in so many parts of our own country — theymaintain an excellent system of forest culture. Trees areplanted in place of those that are cut for timber, these aregiven proper care, and thus the woods continue to be this system, also, forest culture becomes profitable. It ispartly due to the encouragement received from the success inGermany, that forest reservations have been established invarious parts of the United States, and schools of forestryfounded, as in New York, for the purpose of studying how tocare properly for o
. Europe and other continents . and the axe — ashas been done in so many parts of our own country — theymaintain an excellent system of forest culture. Trees areplanted in place of those that are cut for timber, these aregiven proper care, and thus the woods continue to be this system, also, forest culture becomes profitable. It ispartly due to the encouragement received from the success inGermany, that forest reservations have been established invarious parts of the United States, and schools of forestryfounded, as in New York, for the purpose of studying how tocare properly for our woods. G EBMA N EM PIE E 285 Agriculture and Grazing. — On the whole, Germany hasnot a fertile soil ; but the farm products are very exten-sive, because the people are both industrious and intelli-gent, and their method of cultivating the soil is countries may well be contrasted with them in thisrespect ? More than one-third of the population are de-pendent for their living upon agriculture, the leading. Fig. 191. A view on the Rhine at Bingen. Notice the opposite bank where the earth hasbeen terraced so that even the hill slope may be used for vineyards. industry of the nation. Germany is one of the mostimportant grain-producing countries of Europe; buthere rye replaces wheat as the principal grain. Potatoes,introduced from America, are raised in such quantitiesthat, like rye, they form one of the principal two crops are extensively cultivated, both becausethey are a cheap food, and because they flourish in thelight soil and cool summer climate, characteristic of so 286 EUROPE much of Germany. Sugar beets, hay, oats, and barley areother important crops of the northern plains, while in theRhine and other warm, sheltered valleys of the south,hops, tobacco, and grapes are raised in large quantities. Since much of the lowland is too sandy for cultivation, andmuch of the highland too rugged, it is not surprising that one-sixth of all the surface
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