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PLANT TREES LESSEN CROP
LOSSES.
The drouth this summer 1ms beeii n
nntioiml calamity , notwithstanding it ,
may bo found out. . later that present es
timates of damage are too high. The
losses to the growers of crops mid the
raisers of cattle will certainly in the ag
gregate prove enormous. Whatever off
set there may bo through higher prices
will come from the purses of consumers ,
forced to pay more for the necessaries of
life. Butter , meat , potatoes and fruits ,
as they increase in value , will have to
disappear in corresponding measure from
the poor man's table. The railroads
will bo losers financially in direct pro
portion , as there are less products to
haul. Many industries , dependent on
crops for raw material , will have to ad
vance prices so that comsumption will
be curtailed , which will mean less prof
its for shareholders and less wages for
labor.
We arc too apt in this country to look
on drouth , floods , etc. , as unavoidable
and therefore beyond our prevention.
As a matter of fact , however , through
such disasters we simply pay the bills
for our own destructive acts.
On another page we print an interest
ing letter from J. Sterling Morton , of
Nebraska , who states that the destruc
tion of forests and woodlands the cat
ting down of trees without making pro
vision for future trees is the principal
cause for destructive drouths and floods.
The Commercial West hopes that this
year's crop losses by reason of drouth
will stir up popular interest in the sub
ject of forestry , as only general financial
loss can stir it. There has been ample
scientific demonstration in this country
and abroad of the fact that the whole-
pale destruction of trees results in ren
dering climate dryer , more changeable
and trying , while wholesale planting of
trees , on the other hand , promotes the
fall of rain at more regular intervals ,
and wards off sudden meteorological
changes which may result in unusual
falls of rain and disastrous floods. In
1875 , a commission composed of the
representative learned societies of Eu
rope , like the Royal Academy of Sci
ences of Vienna , and the Imperial Acad
emy of Sciences at St. Petersburg , after
a thorough investigation of this subject ,
said in its report "Forests exercise a
beneficial influence , which can hardly
bo estimated too highly , in an increased
humidity of the air , a reduction of the
extremes of temperature , a diminution
of evaporation , and a nioro regular dis
tribution of the rainfall , while the in
jurious effects of their destruction is seen
in alternation of periods of drouth at one
time with wasting floods at another. "
Many of the once rich and fertile re
gions of the world , like Persia , the Med
iterranean ooost of Africa , and the in
terior of Spain , have become arid wastes
through being denuded of trees. On
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