. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. ToL. I. Xo. 12. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 189 ,^^:!^. FOREST IXFLVEXCES. 15. E. Feninw and JiulUtin A'o. 7, Dipinion, Diimrtiuoit of Agviculture. The (jiiestion of the prcsevvation of existing forests in the West Iiitliaii Islands and of replanting portions of some of these Colonies with trees lias often })een raised. The islands have been visited by forest and, in the case of Trinidad, a new forestry department has been instituted. The general idea has been tliat the removal of
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. ToL. I. Xo. 12. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 189 ,^^:!^. FOREST IXFLVEXCES. 15. E. Feninw and JiulUtin A'o. 7, Dipinion, Diimrtiuoit of Agviculture. The (jiiestion of the prcsevvation of existing forests in the West Iiitliaii Islands and of replanting portions of some of these Colonies with trees lias often })een raised. The islands have been visited by forest and, in the case of Trinidad, a new forestry department has been instituted. The general idea has been tliat the removal of forest att'ects climate and rainfall iinfavouralily. Whether the many writers on tliis question could furnish reliable and accurate .scientific data for their oiiinions is open to cpiestion. Climatic conditions arise from so many complex causes that extreme caution is calleil for in drawing general conclusions that changes in climate which may have taken place at the same time as deforestation have actually been caused by forest removal. The necessity of studying the on the basis of accurate measurements and observations before arriving at jH'emature conclusions is admirably laid down in the bulletin before us, as well as the real (piestions to which answers should be souglit as a result of such investigations. It is not so nrucli the effects of on the general climate which are impor- tant as the local modifications in climatic conditions which a forest area may produce. Agricultural jiroduction depends not so much on the amount of rainfall as on its distribution throughout the year. The main portion of the bulletin is taken up with a systematic consitleraticiu of the meteorological observations accumulated in Germany and elsewhere at forest stations, and of the relation of forests to water supijlies. The author sums up the iiKjuir^' as follows :— ' We may summarise that the pf)sition of the forest as a climatic factor is still uncertain, at least as to its
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