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"The ordinary production of charcoal not sufficing to feed the furnaces and the forges, the woods were felled, the copses cut before their time, and the whole economy of the forest was deranged. At Piazzatorre there was such a devastation of the woods, and consequently such an increased severity of climate, that maize no longer ripened.
An association, formed for the purpose, effected the restoration of the forest, and maize flourishes again in the fields of Piazzatorre." Report by G. Rosa, in Il Politecnico, Dicembre, 1861, p. 614. Similar ameliorations have been produced by plantations in Belgium.
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