. Elementary principles of agriculture; a text book for the common schools. ions seemneedlessly severe to us, but is it improbable that, someday, we may find some such restriction necessary forthe public good? 385. The Exhaustion of Our Forest Resources is nowgoing on at a rapid rate. Our forested areas are beingrapidly reduced. Fig. 172 illustrates the present differ-ence between the use of for-est products and the rate ofincrease by growth. The east-ern states have long sinceall but exhausted their na-tural forests. They oncesecured the needed suppliesof lumber from the virginforests of the
. Elementary principles of agriculture; a text book for the common schools. ions seemneedlessly severe to us, but is it improbable that, someday, we may find some such restriction necessary forthe public good? 385. The Exhaustion of Our Forest Resources is nowgoing on at a rapid rate. Our forested areas are beingrapidly reduced. Fig. 172 illustrates the present differ-ence between the use of for-est products and the rate ofincrease by growth. The east-ern states have long sinceall but exhausted their na-tural forests. They oncesecured the needed suppliesof lumber from the virginforests of the . north centralstates, but today those areas are almost exhausted and Fig. 172, Excess oT annual cut the large lumber supplies ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ s-^^^^^- are now furnished by the northwestern and southernstates. The citizens of many states have heretoforereferred with pride to the great value of their annual cropof forest products; but the time has come in many stateswhere the crop removed is greater than the crop thatgrows. Scientific forestry does not mean that the use of. 270 Elementary Principles of Agriculture forests should cease; but, rather, that in their use theneeds of the future shall be considered in their relationto man and his various industries. 386. Conserving Our Forest Resources is a nationalneed. In former times the lumberman cut young timber was needlessly destroyed. Now,however, they have realized the value of the smallseedlings and saplings, and seek to protect them fromforest fires and the grazing of stock. All the conditionsthat favor the growth of the young trees are carefullyconsidered by the modern forester. 387. Our Forest Reserves. Our government, observ-ing the great hardships resulting from an insufficientsupply of forest products in the Old World, and howquickly the forests of the East and middle states havebeen reduced, has set aside large tracts of timberedregions in the western states as National Forest reserves form
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