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do toward preventing floods. Remember Dajtoa in 1913. It will 

 teach you sometliing of the relation between forest cover and the 

 price you will pay in the future for electric iigbt in your home and 

 horsepower in your mill. These are citizens' problems and forestry 

 touches them. 



As a citizen should know something of our i^reat national forests 

 — those wonderful and little known wildei-nef^s paradises. One 

 hundred and fifty of them stretching down the length of the Appa- 

 lachians and Rockies and the Sierras, and aggregating an aro-^. larger 

 than Germany. Their history is interesting. Their resources in 

 timber, in grazing ranges and in water powers are enormous. How- 

 are they managed? How should they be manage 1 by the nation or 

 the state? How will their proper management affect the price of 

 lumber, of mutton and beef (three-fifths of all the sheep and cattle 

 raised in the United States are grazed on national forests) to you? 

 Will this management raise or lower the price you pay to be carried 

 across the continent in a train driven by power generated by water 

 falls safe-guarded by national forest? Yes, as a well educated man or 

 woman you should know something of our national forests. 



Suppose you are a modern Gallio. You care for none of these 

 things. You are a plain city dweller. You own a home. You want 

 to know what trees to plant in front of your home. You wish to know 

 how to plant, to prune and to repair your tret>^, so as to best meet 

 the demands of the street beautiful. City forestry should interest 

 you. 



Or are you going from the University back to the farm to raise 

 crops? Why not learn to raise a crop of treea? The old farm wood 

 lot can pay for the ground it occupies. Make it pay interest in posts, 

 poles and cord wood. Second growth stands of whi^e pino in farmers' 

 wood lots in New England are paying 6 per cent. Cottonwood stands 

 in the middle west are doing even better. 



The establishing of wind breaks is a profitable work in farm 

 forestry. Larger yields of fruit and grain are obtained from orchards 

 and fields sheltered from wind and frost. Ca-.vie which have been 

 pastured on land shaded by windbreaks go to market pounds heavicl- 

 than those unprotected from the prolonged heat of summer. 



Farm forestry will tell you how and what trees to plant about 

 the farm house. It will aid you in making the farm a more pleasant 

 place to live. It is a distinct contribution to the movement for better 

 rural conditions. Is a knowledge of forestry worth while on the farm ' 



A knowledge of forestry is a .ioy to the traveler. Particularly 

 does an acquaintance with dendrology (forest botany) add to the 

 pleasure of traveling and life in the open. As a forester 1 know of 

 no keener pleasure when traveling over the continent than the 

 recognition of different species of trees as the train swings across 

 the states. To follow from the observation platform the boundries 

 of our great forest regions, from the sombre spruce of New England 



