How  best  to  preserve  the  remaining  American  forests  is  a  question
that  has  been  often  asked,  and  as  often  answered  in  the  United  States,
yet  few.of  our  farmers  do  more  than  shake  their  heads  and  say  it  is  a
shame  to  destroy  our  forests  so  recklessly.  They  admit  and  see  the
impropriety  and  positive  wrong  of  such  proceedings,  and  yet,  compara-
tively speaking,  very  few  of  them  give  the  subject  serious  practical  at-
tention. They  should  unite  in  their  endeavors  to  promote  forest  cult-
ure. It  may  be  said  that  nowhere  in  the  United  states  have  any  con-
siderable number  of  farmers  agreed  among  themselves  to  cultivate  and
preserve  forests  here  and  there  on  their  respective  farms,  for  their  mu-
tual benefit;  and  yet  this  is  extremely  necessary,  for  on  oue  farm  there
may  be  a  large  wood  left  standing  where  it  is  of  not  much  practical  bene*
rfit,  while  on  another,  where  its  presence  and  influence  are  beneficial,  it
is  unwisely  and  thoughtlessly  felled.
