 ... part of it, determined to let them grow, and they soon formed a flourishing grove. As soon as they were well grown, a fine spring appeared in place of the occasional rill, and furnished abundant water in the longest droughts. For forty or fifty years...  Annual Report - Page 595by Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - Agriculture - 1878 - 364 pages
...the longest drought. For forty or fifty years this spring was considered the best in Clos-du-Doubs. A few years since the grove was felled and the ground turned again into a pasture. The spring disappeared with the wood, and is now as dry as it was ninety years ago."... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1864 - 592 pages
...occasional rill, and furnished abundant water in the longest droughts. For forty or fifty years, this spring was considered the best in the Clos du Doubs....as it was ninety years ago." * " The influence of the forest on springs," says Hummel, " is strikingly shown by an instance at Heilbronn. The woods on... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - Conservation of natural resources - 1865 - 581 pages
...in the longest droughts. For forty or fifty years, this spring was considered the best in the Olos du Doubs. A few years since, the grove was felled,...to a pasture. The spring disappeared with the wood, aud is now as dry as it was ninety years ago." * " The influence of the forest on springs," says Hflmmel,... | |
 | Michigan. Board of Agriculture, Michigan. State Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1866 - 410 pages
...occasional rill, and furnished abundant water in the longest droughts. For forty or fifty years this spring was considered the best in the Clos du Doubs....years since the grove was felled and the ground turned into a pasture. The spring disappeared with the wood., and it is now as dry as it was ninety years... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - Meteorology - 1867 - 462 pages
...the longest drought. For forty or fifty years, this spring was considered the best in Clos-du-Doubs. A few years since, the grove was felled, and the ground...the wood, and is now as dry as it was ninety years ago."1 In the previous chapter we pointed out the evil consequences to the climate, as far as the fertility... | |
 | Michigan. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1867 - 534 pages
...water in the longest drought. For 40 or 50 years this spring was considered the best in Clos de D jubs. A few years since the grove was felled, and the ground...the wood, and is now as dry as it was ninety years since." The interesting and somewhat differing way in which the leaves of plants appear to act in the... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - Legislative journals - 1867 - 946 pages
...occasional rill, and furnished abundant water in the longest droughts. For forty or fifiy years this spring was considered the best in the Clos du Doubs....years since the grove was felled and the ground turned into a pasture. The spring disappeared with the wood, and it is now as dry as it was ninety years ago."... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - Meteorology - 1867 - 460 pages
...was considered the best in Clos-du-Doubs. A few years since, the grove was felled, and the ground i 2 turned again to a pasture. The spring disappeared...the wood, and is now as dry as it was ninety years ago."1 In the previous chapter we pointed out the evil consequences to the climate, as far as the fertility... | |
 | Increase Allen Lapham, Joseph Gillett Knapp, H. Crocker - Deforestation - 1867 - 116 pages
...the longest droughts. For forty or fifty years this spring was considered the best in Clos du Douds. A few years since the grove was felled and the ground turned into a pasture. The spring disappeared with the wood, am! *:•; now as dry as it was ninety years... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1867 - 332 pages
...longest droughts. For forty or fifty years this spring was considered the best in the Clos du Doube. A few years since the grove was felled and the ground turned into a pasture. The spring disappeared with the wood, and it is now as dry as it was ninety years ago."... | |
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