

Forestry in Japan: A Well-kept Forest ol Timber Bamboo on Good Soil, Showing Thick Mulch of Siriw ard 

 Leaves, and Open Drainage Ditch in Foreground (page 24) 



(lucing more lumber than the country 

 needs, operating without profit, and 

 leaving a desperate country behind him. 

 Is it not time for the state of Louisiana 

 to act? Or must we wait until we are 

 reduced to sufifering and then spend 

 millions of dollars for measures of pro- 

 tection, which, if adopted now, would 



solve the problem and yield to the state 

 millions of dollars in profits? 



The lumberman really has no desire 

 to criminally destroy his forests, and 

 I am sure that if the state would meet 

 him half way, settle the question of 

 taxation, and assist in the perpetuation 

 of forests which is a benefit to all our 



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