Forest planting; a treatise on the care of timber lands and the restoration of denuded wood-lands on plains and montains . on of terraces by the soiland cobble-stones accumulated behind the fences. When the soil has a slope of thirty yards in the onehundred, it will be dug out by the water after an un-checked flow of twenty yards, and the damming upshould begin at this point. With a declivity of fortyyards in the one hundred, the unchecked floAV of watershould not be more than fifteen yards, and upon steeperslopes the establishment of terraces should be morenarrowed down. The diagrams on pages
Forest planting; a treatise on the care of timber lands and the restoration of denuded wood-lands on plains and montains . on of terraces by the soiland cobble-stones accumulated behind the fences. When the soil has a slope of thirty yards in the onehundred, it will be dug out by the water after an un-checked flow of twenty yards, and the damming upshould begin at this point. With a declivity of fortyyards in the one hundred, the unchecked floAV of watershould not be more than fifteen yards, and upon steeperslopes the establishment of terraces should be morenarrowed down. The diagrams on pages 196 and 197 show the differentkinds of dams, dikes and fences which are to be builtin order to check the rapid flow of mountain material to be used depends much upon that whichis found in localities where it is to be utilized. In order to preserve these expensive means, which areboth preparatory and protective to tree-growth for alltimes to come, the terraces created by the accumulationof stones and earth should be consolidated by sowinggrasses and planting quick-growing coppice wood. 196 FOREST CROSS-SECTION OF A WOOUEJf WEIR SECURED BY STONES.
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