Timber and Rain.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 7, 2 July 1887, Page 3

Timber and Rain.

, 0 .., 50 me important efidenc^^ tpj.the: causes of the decune of [ ; the. t, timber industry in Vietoi3a,rand of the 'urgent! need there is for, .conserving the re-j maining forests of that; Colony^ was tefeentiy ' giveri : I3ie f -ye|fet'at}ie! Products. Commissjpii n of '} TictoriaJ 3Aj JameV'Lyori, a saw-miller of seventeen yearsVexpenqnce,, stated, that r he had made a special study of^he f effect of fimbeß:Oi?f«(in.fall < ;as^n(iisVQ|>in-| ion the statement .that timber at-! tracteo^ rain, excepting so far asijts altitude was concerned, was purely^ a theoretical idea, and liad' !no 'fouhda--tionin fact. r He would, even go .?p! far Wto state tho "opposite^ that the rain attracted the timber. On -high land timber always-grew when ?grot6cjted^Erom cutting or cold';wiifctsi forests :^ted,i.as .reservoirs £ the..iall trees sheltered , the undergrowth, and the undergowth protected the grouri.d from the sun. The ground was Always, porous,: an 4 received th,e rfjam as it fellj and gradually <!©«■ it drain pira-j:. 1 5 He :. ; recommended, that i\%M j main ranges . which were ; the sources nt of ? ■creeks- should 'be' kept clothed with tiniber; f rbm one ; mile|,s6 'ftne mUe'and a-ialf from: the .suismlt, ''a'^o! along, th| siSes of each iereei /pr .^iii^ i^llthe^efld 'g&. me timbered country, was^^ reachejii . land should be : reserved for all -time, [periodically/ all ' maturßci ?timb©r 'should 'J be utilised 1 and' ( the elearefd ;< bf decayed • Vegetable ■itia^ter.; n ' ; ' jDecayed vegefabie' ima^fer ■/aVpund' reservoirs he considered fiighly ! otJjecifippajblQ-f 'r f 0m a r £anit.ary.. poin^ ! pf are^^jiouid be therefore; cleared;, . ; ,