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Then over in New Hampshire, in addition to the private owners, we 

 have been working with the people there. These are some of the ques- 

 tions that are asked: What is the kind of timber; what the danger of 

 fire; how can it best be met? We are making a co-operative study of 

 New Hampshire, and we are co-operating there with the Forestry 

 Association. This Association employs a forester of its own. In Massa- 

 chusetts there is a similar association which employs a forester, and 

 the Bureau is co-operating with that association. In Rhode Island great 

 areas of arid sand have been planted to forests, land that would not 

 produce anything in any other way, and very gratifying results have 

 been obtained. 



Second growth white pine is sold for very large prices, up to and 

 beyond $150 an acre, for a reason absolutely unconnected with forestry, 

 for Massachusetts has gone into the business of making shoes and 

 these trees are cut and used for shoe boxes and sent all over the world, 

 and the growth of white pine in Massachusetts has been proven to be a 

 success from a money point of view. 



I have mentioned these things as a sort of introduction of the 

 statement of what the point of view is from which I want to approach 

 forestry. I have said enough I think to indicate that it is the practical 

 side that interests me mainly. The question of "use" first, last and all 

 the time. As I have often said, I appreciate the beauty of the forests 

 as much as any man, but as a forester the question is "use," nothing 

 but use, and that is what a forester must study when he is dealing 

 with these problems. We have been urged many times to adopt the 

 methods of German foresters because the Germans are said to do things 

 in a certain way which accomplish results, but those results though 

 admirable and valuable for Germany, are utterly worthless for us. We 

 have got to deal with things in our forests from our own American 

 point of view, and not only the American point of view, but of the 

 point of view of the locality in which we may be working. I am trying 

 to emphasize this because it has been misunderstood. The German 

 method is not coming in and cannot come in until we reach a point 

 where we can make a bundle of the young twigs of the pine tree and 

 ship them in, one hundred miles by rail and make it pay We cannot 

 ship cord wood here in many cases and make it pay. We have got 

 to take this question of forestry from the absolutely local standpoint 

 it is the common sense point of view if we hope for success. 



President Roosevelt in an address in Washington before the 

 Society of American Foresters told them that the strongest chance of 

 success was to depend upon the view taken of any movement by the 

 lumbermen, and that is absolutely true. 



The great bulk of the forests of the United States will sooner or later 

 pass through the hand of the lumberman. What he does not own now 

 he will ultimately own or control, and the success of the forestry move- 

 ment is going to depend upon the attitude of the lumberman to it. 



Forestry is one of the most beautiful sciences in the world; it is 

 simply to make permanent the timber resources of the country. What 



