Annual Report, Tập 2Westbote Company, state printers, 1887 1887 includes: Trees and tree planting, with exercises and directions for the celebration of arbor day. Prepared by John B. Pesslee, superintendent of Cincinnati public schools, with a preface by Warren Higley. |
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Trang 171 - There through the long, long summer hours, The golden light should lie, And thick young herbs and groups of flowers Stand in their beauty by. The oriole should build and tell His love-tale close beside my cell; The idle butterfly Should rest him there, and there be heard The housewife bee and humming-bird.
Trang 154 - Pepino! old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command. Rivers leave their beds, run into cities, and traverse mountains for it; obelisks and arches, palaces and temples, amphitheatres and pyramids, rise up like exhalations at its bidding; even the free spirit of Man, the only thing great on earth, crouches and cowers in its presence. It passes away and vanishes before venerable trees.
Trang 141 - IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Great Seal of the State of Ohio to be affixed at Columbus...
Trang 144 - European countries the due preservation of forests, on account of their recognized influence upon the water supply, as well as their climatic effects, is regarded as of the first importance. In many of them the Bureau of Woods and Streams is considered one of the most important departments of Government. In France the most stringent laws have been framed for the protection of forests. The owners of forests are not allowed, as with us, to cut their woodlands at their pleasure, but only to such an...
Trang 66 - Austria, it appears that an acre of properly cultivated Hackwald, of the age of twelve years, will furnish from four to five cords of tan-bark, and about six thousand feet of timber (board measure) fit for posts and for wagonmakers' work. The revenue from the wood covers all the expenses of planting and managing, leaving a surplus. Under the existing circumstances, the foresting of inferior lands in Ohio, Kentucky, or West Virginia, could not fail to lay the foundation of wealth for those who would...
Trang 143 - The ground was hardly shaded before the water reappeared, and it has ever since continued to flow without interruption. The hills in the Atlantic States formerly abounded in springs and brooks, but in many parts of these States which were cleared a generation or two ago, the hill pastures now suffer severely from drought, and in dry seasons furnish to cattle neither grass nor water.
Trang 182 - Gouffler was unable to find the Scamander river, which in the time of Pliny was still navigable. Its bed is now entirely dry, and the cedars that once covered Mount Ida, where it took its rise, no longer exist. The history of Ovideo and the observations of Humboldt show that, owing to the removal of the forests, the city of New Valencia, in Venezuela, at the time of his visit, was very much farther away from Lake Tacarigua than when it was first settled, and that the waters of the lake had receded...
Trang 156 - Many millions of dollars of American capital are invested in various enterprises which require a much longer time to yield profit or income and never pay nearly as well as systematic forest culture in the proper locality. Great fortunes are risked in wild speculations, in rail-roads which pay no dividends, in mining stocks which enrich only the agents, or brokers selling them, in lands and lots, which never attain the expected increase of value. But there is certainly no risk in forest culture. It...
Trang 181 - Italy, to the clearings around their feeders. A remarkable illustration of the fact that the clearing of hilly countries is likely to result in the complete failing of springs is given by Mr. Ney, who states that in the Provence, after all the olive trees, which there formed regular forests, had been frozen in 1822 and cut down, a great number of springs failed totally ; and besides, in the city of Orleans, after the surrounding heights had been thus cleared, nearly all the wells dried up, and it...
Trang 65 - ... well-managed forests — a fact which may at first sight seem incredible, but which is easily accounted for by comparison between the yearly expenses of grain culture and the trifling outlay required for the planting and maintenance of a forest after the trees have become two or three years old, and by taking in consideration the frequent failures of grain crops and the sure steadiness of the growth of trees. Planting may be done by children. With all the advantages in our favor, why should forest-culture...