Title: American forests
Identifier: americanforests14natiuoft (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: National Irrigation Association (U. S. ); New Jersey Forestry Association; South Jersey Woodmen's Association; American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry -- Periodicals
Publisher: Washington (etc. ) American Forestry Association (etc. )
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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204 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATIOX .April tree study, and for training in the use of trees, as at Princeville. HI., where it is reported that a forty-acre woodlot, which has come into the possession of the village, is to be used for nature study. The animal kingdom as well as the vegetable, should have its share in na- ture study. Arbor Day and Bird Day are the same in quite a number of States, as Connecticut. Delaware. Il- linois, New Jersey, and Wisconsin. essential relation of tree growth to the material sice of our civilization, can on Arbor Day be impressed upon the childish mind, so that the next gener- ation will be readier than the present to use economically this gift of Provi- dence. A circular on Arbor Day issued by the Forest Service, says: "What child has not seen a muddy freshet ? Yet this sight, so common in the spring, is full of suggestion for a forest lesson.
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Normal school students at Washington, D. C, stratifying seeds in sand to carry them through the winter—The seeds are collected in the city parks One mission of Arbor Day should be to make every child in the United States know the native trees near his home, how they grow, and how the) are reproduced. Such a lesson will ultimately be invaluable when the Na- tion begins to realize the necessity for conservative lumbering and the arts of reforesting. Then it will be known what trees to use. The facts of which the general pub- lic is now taking cognizance, as to the The stream is discolored by the earth which it has gathered from the soil. This carries us back to the stream's source, in the forest springs. Again, it shows us with what force the water has rushed over the exposed ground where there was no forest to shield and bind it. In just this way the Mis- sissippi tears down and flings into its bed, each summer, more soil than will be dredged with years of costly labor to make the Panama Canal. An ex-

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