-An exchange, inspired by the last year's report of the New York Forestry Commission on its table, says:

"In Kansas, the plantings of the new settlers have already carried the rainy belt farther west. In California, the same cause has sensibly affected the dry season, and it is now believed that by the simple process of tree planting the great dry basin of our American interior may be rendered fertile, fruitful, and able to sustain a great and thriving population".

In the next year's report, it will be in order to explain why the rainy belt receded so far East this season as to ruin thousands of settlers.