Destruction Of Timber

A -writer in tho Poptdar Science Monthly calis attcntion to soine facts which go to show that tho alarm about tho destruction of timbor on this continent is-by no means a scnsational one. In an estímate made in tho report of the Department of Agriculture for 1870 it is shown that all tlio pine timber in the región betwoen the Mississippi on tho west and Lako Superior and Michigan on the north and east will disappear within tho ncxt twolve vears, whilo tho hard wood will last only twonty-four years if tho present rate of consumption is kopt np, and no inoans employod to replace tha wood conmiined. In this región abjut 320,000 eres are denuded eaoii year, and .o comjunsito for this only 1jO,()0) acres are ilanted aunually throughout Uie entire Yest- -te-4-