anaheim-gazette 1908-02-27

WHAT FORESTRY HAS DONE In France Sand Dunes Formerly Worthless Transformed Into Profitable Forests The sand dunes on the coast of France, mainly in Gascony, which the winds drove farther and farther inland, wasting the vineyards, have now largely been fixed in place by forest plantations which were begun in 1793. Of the 350,000 acres of sand dunes 275,000 have been planted in forest, and the dunes, instead of being a constant menace to the neighboring farmers, now are growing crops of pine which produce valuable wood and resin. In all, about $2,000,000 was spent in the work and an additional $700,000 was laid out in bringing the forests under administration. Now, though about one-half of the lands have been acquired by private persons and the State retains only about 125,000 acres, the State has received $120,000 above all expenses, and possesses a property worth $10,000,-000, acquired virtually for nothing. Some 2,000,000 acres of shifting sand lands and marshes toward the interior of the country, a triangular country known as the Landes, has been changed from a formerly worthless condition into a profitable forest valued at $100,-000,000. Reforestation was begun about the middle of the last century. This work was done principally by the communes, aided and imitated by private creased the danger from which threatened to destroy vast of fertile farms, and in doing so added many millions of dollars. National wealth in new forests. Removed the danger from sand and in their place has created aerty worth many millions of dollars. Applied to the State forests, which small in comparison with the National wealth in new forests, it causes to yield each year a net revenue more than $4,700,000, though they spent on each acre for management over 100 times greater than that on the forests of the United States. France and Germany together populate of 100,000,000, in round bers, against our probable 85,000 and State forests of 14,500,000 against our 160,000,000 acres of National Forests; but France and Germany spend on their forests $11,000,000 and get from them in net return 000,000 a year, while the United States spent on the National Forests less $1,400,000 and secured a net return less than $130,000. In Switzerland, which has 2,00 acres, or 20.6 per cent of its area forest, the communal forests are largest, and make up 67 per cent of total; the cantons own 4.5 per cent private persons own 28.6 per cent. Communal holdings are const growing by the purchase of pr lands. The general government Bund owns no forests. From $6,000 to $8,000,000 worth of wood (3O tons) and wooden ware are imported. This comes mainly Austria-Hungary, southern Germany and France. The State forests yield about 64 feet per acre, the corporation for cubic feet; the average yield of together is about 45 cubic feet. Average wood growth per acre has estimated to be 5O cubic feet. Some 2,000,000 acres of shifting sand lands and marshes toward the interior of the country, a triangular country known as the Landes, has been changed from a formerly worthless condition into a profitable forest valued at $100,000,000. Reforestation was begun about the middle of the last century. This work was done principally by the communes, aided and imitated by private owners, and encouraged by the State. The resulting forest produces both pine timber and resin, upon the yield of which the present valuation is based. La Sologne, in the central part of the country between the rivers Loire and Cher, was once densely wooded, but was for two centuries steadily deforested. By the beginning of the nineteenth century 1,250,000 acres had been utterly abandoned. Owing to the nature of the soil and subsoil, drainage was necessary as a first step toward reclaiming this land with forest. About the middle of the nineteenth century a committee of private citizens, under the presidency of the director-general of forests, began the work of reclamation. A canal 25 miles long and 350 miles of roads were built, and 200,000 acres of nonagricultural land were planted with pine. In spite of the fact that one of the species planted proved a failure and another kind of pine had to be substituted, the reforestation work has resulted in a forest property worth $18,000,000, and land which could be bought for $4 an acre fifty years ago is now yielding $3 an acre net annual revenue. The arid limestone wastes of the province of Champagne have been partly reclaimed by forest planting. Two hundred thousand acres, planted at a cost of $10 per acre, have now risen in value from $4 to $40 per acre, with a total value of $10,000,000 and a net annual revenue of $2 per acre. The private forests of France are being freely sold. Speculators buy them, strip them, and sell them for grazing purposes. In this way hilltops and hillsides are being rapidly denuded. This threatens erosion and the silting of farm lands in the valleys by the washing down of infertile soil. The terribly destructive floods of the present year could not have been so violent had the hills of France been hastened. Bund. owns no forests. From $6,000 to $8,000,000 worth of wood (30 tons) and wooden ware are annually imported. This comes mainly from Austria-Hungary, southern Germany and France. The State forests yield about 64 feet per acre, the corporation forest cubic feet; the average yield oftogether is about 45 cubic feet. The average wood growth per acre has estimated to be 50 cubic feet. In State forests of Bern the figures show growth of 50 cubic feet for the plant country, 73 cubic feet for the main country, and 75 cubic feet in the Wood prices, which are higher than Germany, have been rising for many years. The expenditures in forest management vary greatly among the Cantons ranging from $1.50 to $7 per acre. Net annual returns range from $34 acre in the forests where least is pended, to $8 or $9 per acre in the forests, where most is expended. Forest regulations came very early in Switzerland. The first forest finance of Bern was issued 600 years ago. The city forest of Zurich, famous the Sihlwald, has been managed using a working plan since 1680, and is one of the most perfectly managed most profitable forests in the world yields on the average, a clear and profit of $12 an acre. From time to time, as the evidence shows, the Swiss people stood in dread of a timber line. Ordinances were passed forcing the reduction of the forest area and making of clearings, and the portation of wood from one Canton another. In the middle of the eighteenth century, as modern industrial life began, various Cantons sought to follow the examples which Bern Zurich had set in forestry. A severe flood in 1830 brought home the need more vigorous measures in guard against torrents. The floods of 1831 and 1836 further enforced the less An investigation of Swiss forest conditions was ordered by the Bund in 1831 and the same year provision was made for an annual appropriation of $2,000the Swiss Forestry Association engineering and reforestry work in Alps. In 1871 the Bundesrath was powered to carry on this work, with annual appropriation of $20,000. At the flood of 1868 $200,000 of the coll The private forests of France are being freely sold. Speculators buy them, strip them, and sell them for grazing purposes. In this way hilltops and hillsides are being rapidly denuded. This threatens erosion and the silting of farm lands in the valleys by the washing down of infertile soil. The terribly destructive floods of the present year could not have been so violent had the hills of France been kept clothed in forest. In France, then, forestry has de- A Boston schoolboy was tall, weak and sickly. His arms were soft and flabby. He didn’t have a strong muscle in his entire body. The physician who had attended the family for thirty years prescribed Scott’s Emulsion. NOW: To feel that boy’s arm you would think he was apprenticed to a blacksmith. ALL DRUGGISTS; 50c. AND $1.00. C. AMBERG FIRST CLASS BARBER SHOP 120 E. Center St. Anaheim First Door East of Fischle's Candy Store B. Dauser Dealer In all Kinds of GRAIN AND FEED Storage Warehouses And Custom Feed Mill in Connection Regular Mill Days, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. LOCATION—South of Santa Fe depot. water and forest police in the high Alps above a certain elevation, and undertook to give aid to the work of engineering and reforesting for the control of the alpine torrents. Since 1898 the Bund has supervised all this work, and in 1902 the present forest policy was firmly fixed by a revision of the existing law. 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Japan needs a long period of recuperation and is fully aware that a declaration of war with the United States would be the signal for Russia to attack for the recovery of lost prestige and territory. The urbane and diplomatic Tahahira is a man of manners, skilled in courts and the usages of great capitals. He does not indulge the shirt sleeves diplomacy that characterized Japanese contentions for a season after the Russian war. There was a certain insolent cockiness about the Asiatic diplomacy of that period. Speaking of the dispute about the San Francisco schools a correspondet of Army and Navy Life writes: "The state department assured the Japanese government that every step..." and the usages of great capitals. He does not indulge the shirt sleeves diplomacy that characterized Japanese contentions for a season after the Russian war. There was a certain insolent cockiness about the Asiatic diplomacy of that period. Speaking of the dispute about the San Francisco schools a correspondet of Army and Navy Life writes: "The state department assured the Japanese government that every step would be taken to insure full compliance with our obligations to Japan, both by treaty and by the general terms of international law, but this, of course, would have to be done in accordance with the constitution and the laws of our country. I am reliably informed that when the assurance was received by the Japanese government, a peremptory note was returned, demanding that Japanese children be placed in San Francisco schools. Under our constitution the people of California have the right to determine what is to be done in regard to the admission of children to the public schools of that state. The United States has no right to decide this matter or to conclude a treaty with any country impairing in any way this right of the people of California or any other state." This is very curious and interesting. 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