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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ncr millions of dollars worth 

 of food may be raised, the 

 food yield of the nation thus 

 becoming doubled, and the 

 vast populations of the cities 

 and towns and villages of 

 the countn- will be self- 

 supporting in a large meas- 

 ure. The movement already 

 has gained much headway. 

 Gardens b}^ the thousands 

 are flourishing, but gardens 

 by the millions must spring 

 up if the situation is to be- 

 come permanently benefi- 

 cial to a stricken world. 



Aiding President Pack 

 and Secretary Ridsdale in 

 their efforts to assist the 

 nation and the people to 

 produce sufficient food are 

 men of renown, including 

 Luther Burbank, noted hor- 

 ticulturist. Dr. Charles W. 

 Eliot, of Massachusetts, Dr. 



A PRIZE CORN GROWER 



The gardening ability of children is not overlooked in the campaign of the 

 National Emergency Food Garden Commission for 2,000,000 home gardens this 

 year. Children are the most numerous class who have much time to give to 

 spade and hoe — but they are something more — they make splendid gardeners. 

 Much of the leaven of better farming has been spread through many sections 

 by the boys' corn clubs fostered by the Department of Agriculture. This is 

 one of the prize winners — very proud of his crop. 



Irving Fisher, of Yale, Fred 

 H. GofE, of Ohio, John Hays 

 Hammond, famous mining 

 engineer, Fairfax Harrison, 

 president of the Southern 

 Railway, Hon. Myron T. 

 Herrick, of Ohio, Dr. 

 John Grier Hibben, presi- 

 dent of Princeton, Emerson 

 McMillin, of New York, 

 Mrs. John Dickinson Sher- 

 man, of Chicago, Chairman, 

 Conservation Department 

 of the General Federation 

 of Women's Clubs, A. W. 

 Shaw, editor of System, of 

 Chicago, Carl Vrooman, 

 assistant Secretary- of Agri- 

 culture, Capt. J. B. White, 

 of the United States Ship- 

 ping Board and a noted 

 lumberman and conserva- 

 tionist, and Hon. James 

 Wilson, former Secretary 

 of Agriculture. 



FORESTERS FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE 



THE United States Forest Service is now bringing to 

 Vjcar every resource to assist the Council of National 

 Defense and the military branches of the Govern- 

 ment. "It is yet too early to give out details," stated 

 Chief Forester Graves. "The Forest Service is, however, 

 actively engaged along two broad lines — assisting the War 

 Department through the use of our field forces in the 

 protection of public property in regions remote from sta- 

 tions of the regular Army or the National Guard ; and in 

 cooperation with the Council of National Defense and its 

 Advisory Committee on Lumber in the mobilization of 

 forest supplies needed for the Anny and Navy and the 

 Shipping Board. 



"Wood and wood products enter into the art of war to 

 an astounding degree and to an extent hardly considered 

 by the layman — for use in all manner of equipment, 

 vehicles, airplanes and containers, for the manufacture of 

 explosives, chemicals, surgical supplies and the like. Our 

 problem is to marshal the great wood industries — lumber, 

 hardwood specialties, naval stores, wood distillates, paper 

 and pulp — to the end that the essential products of these 

 organizations may be used to the highest advantage by 

 the agencies charged with the prosecution of the war. 

 In this work the Council of National Defense has secured 

 active help and advice of prominent lumbermen who have 

 in a very patriotic way volunteered their services." 



The Executive Committee is composed of R. H. Down- 

 man of New Orleans, President of the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association; E.T. Allen of Portland, Ore- 

 gon, Manager of the Western Forestry and Conservation 

 Association; C. H. Worcester, of Chicago, President of the 



Worcester Lumber Company; W. M. Ritter, of Welch, 

 West Virginia, President of the Ritter Lumber Company; 

 W. H. Sulli\"an, of Bogalusa, Louisiana, Manager, Great 

 Southern Lumber Comjiany and Henry S.Graves, Chief of 

 the United States Forest Service. Other members of the 

 Committees are D. O. Anderson, lumber manufacturer of 

 Marion, South Carolina; E. A. Selfridge of San Francisco, 

 President of the Redwood Manufacturers' Association; 

 Geo. B. Lewis, lumber manufacturer of Holyoke, Massa- 

 chusetts; G. S. Long of Tacoma, Washington, Manager, 

 Weyerhauser Timber Company; W. E. Delaney, of Lex- 

 ington, Kentucky, President, Kentucky Lumber Company ; 

 Charles S. Keith, of Kansas City, President of the Southern 

 Pine Association; J. F. Gregory, of Tacoma, Washington, 

 logger and lumber manufacturer, and W. R. Brown, of 

 Berlin, New Hampshire, lumber and paper manufacturer. 



Back of the census of the Government Forest Service 

 men for war needs is a committee of professionals, mem- 

 bers of the Society of American Foresters, named by the 

 advisory council of that body for the purpose. Gifford 

 Pinchot is chairman and associated with him are A. C. 

 Ringland, Earle H. Clapp, and Herbert A. Smith of the 

 Forest Service and Major George B. Ahem. E. T. Allen, 

 forester for the Western Forestry and Conservation Asso- 

 ciation, is actively in charge of the gathering of information 

 with regard to private and state foresters in his section. 



Mobilization of the wood industries, as well as woods- 

 men, may well prove a very important work for experts in 

 woods and the characteristics which fit them for certain 

 special uses. A good many things — rifle stocks, saddle 

 trees, supply wagons, planks for pontoons, wooden aero- 



