ISBN: 9781150264535

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: .and in the course of time it will bear valuable timber. But this will require five hundred years of time and the expenditure of large sums of money. This work, it is evident, must be done by the government and not by individuals. It costs from ten to twenty-five dollars to forest an This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: .and in the course of time it will bear valuable timber. But this will require five hundred years of time and the expenditure of large sums of money. This work, it is evident, must be done by the government and not by individuals. It costs from ten to twenty-five dollars to forest an acre of land. The price of one battle-ship would enable the government to forest at least half a million acres each year. But thus far we have more advocates for useless battle-ships than for necessary forests in our land. Men are interested in making and selling armor-plate to the government. But few men have any concern for the second generation of people who come after us. There is one other fact in connection with the destruction of the forests which may be noticed in passing. The average annual rainfall, for the country as a whole, is about thirty inches. Some of this water runs off into the streams, but where the forests are found much of the water is held back and percolates into the soil. The loose and porous rocks near the surface of the earth act as a sponge and hold an immense amount of underground water. The amount of water thus held, according to W.J. McGee, is equivalent to a solid belt of water ninetysix feet deep around the earth. This water is the source of all the springs and wells; in fact, it is the real source of a country's water-supply. Suppose that this supply of underground water in a country decreases. It is then only a question of time when the springs and wells of this country will go dry. This is precisely the result that is coming in the older sections of our country. McGee estimates that by injudicious farming and deforestation the watertable has been lowered in the United States from K ten to forty feet. He estimates that in the older parts of Books, , If-America-Fail-Our-National-Mission-and-Our-Possible-Future~~Samuel-Zane-Batten, 999999999, If America Fail; Our National Mission and Our Possible Future, Samuel Zane Batten, 1150264535, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

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