52 THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



freshness of your atmosphere. I wish we could move Washington up 

 here, where we could get the sweep and vigor of the kind which you 

 hav here. 



I want to say too, although I have never been in Vermont very 

 much, I have got a lot of friends here whom I have known for many 

 years; the kind of people it does you good to see when you are tired 

 and want to get rested. I know Sam Lovell, Antoine Basette and 

 Pelatiah, and a lot more of them are good old friends of mine, good 

 old friends of many who are here. It is a great pleasure to me to find 

 Potato Hill and Camel's Hump that I thought were not really here; it 

 has made me feel as though I was in touch with Vermont in more 

 ways than one. It was a great-great-grandfather of mine who went to 

 Ticonderoga to spy out the land when Ethan Allen took the place, and 

 I could tell you more reasons for the feeling I have, but I must talk 

 about forestry. What I am to say to you to-night deals mainly with 

 the forestry problem in New England, and not without an idea of the 

 forests of Vermont. Throughout New England the forests are about 

 the same, spruce and pine, birch, beach and maple forests. The dis- 

 appearance of the New England forests is not a thing to be feared, 

 where the land can not be used better for some other purpose, there 

 the forests will come back if given time. The great question is what 

 kind of forests are coming back and of what use? This is the point 

 which is intimately related to the whole view the forester takes of the 

 subject, because the question of whether forestry pays or not is a 

 crucial one with all of us. The question in New England is, what kind 

 of a forest is coming back; are you going to get from that forest, after 

 it comes back, the largest return in dollars and cents per thousand? 

 The Government has been taking up these problems in the different 

 states of New England, and one of the first things it wishes to find out 

 is what has been done in the different states, what succession there 

 had been in the forests, and therefore what we might expect. 



We find over in Maine that Mr. Cole, who died a few years ago, had 

 gotten along a good many years back, the idea it was worth his while to 

 get second crops of pine or spruce on his land, and so he would not 

 allow any trees to be cut less than twelve inches in diameter, and the 

 result was that when Mr. Cole died his holdings were worth more for 

 the timber that stood on them than they were when he bought them. 

 He had operated with the idea that he could preserve the value of the 

 land and still give the lumber man a profit, and that it was a very 

 good profit indeed is proven by the money that Mr. Cole was worth 

 when he died. 



Following that up as an illustration, the Government, through the 

 Bureau of Forestry, took up the study of the great Northern Paper Co. 

 in Maine. The great mills that company put up had been drawing sup- 

 plies from the forests which it owned for many years, and the Gov- 

 ernment has taken the operations of the Great Northern Paper Com- 

 pany as an object lesson from which we hope will spread a knowledge 

 of the methods by which forests can be made profitable to their 

 owners. 



