1 90 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



me and says, I have 100,000 acres of longleaf pine and I wish 

 to supply my mill for an indefinite period with 10,000,000 feet 

 a year. Have I enough land to do this? I cannot answer 

 his question unless I know the productive power of pine under 

 dilTerent conditions. These and similar questions have not 

 been determined except with regard to a very few of our trees 

 and in restricted localities. This suggests merely something 

 of the character of the scientific study of our trees and forests 

 which must be carried on by the government and by the states, 

 and it is one of the important problems of forestry to be 

 worked out in the near future. 



I have intimated that the timber supply of the country will 

 not be much influenced by the timber cut from federal or state 

 reserves. For our timber supply we must rely mainly on 

 forests owned by private concerns and individuals. Private 

 forests will not be managed conservatively until it is shown 

 that such a conservative management is profitable, and this 

 showing can be made most quickly with the assistance of the 

 federal government and states by means of scientific research 

 and experiment. 



There must be in the different states men who can not only 

 do executive work in connection with the management of 

 forest reserves, or other forest tracts, and who can carry on 

 the scientific study of the growth and characteristics of trees 

 and forests, but who can also lead in influencing public 

 opinion, and, if necessary, draft intelligent bills to be brought 

 before the legislatures of the states. 



We recognize at Yale that there are two kinds of foresters 

 needed in this country. First, those who can undertake any 

 work which a forester may be called upon to do, whether it 

 be to cruise timber lands and estimate standing timber for a 

 lumberman, to locate and superintend cuttings in mature 

 timber, or to plant waste places with the right species of trees, 

 or to carry on a scientific study of the growth and production 

 of certain trees, or to study the distribution of trees as influ- 

 enced by a geological formation, or to determine whether 

 grazing should be allowed in a certain reserve, and, if allowed, 

 how it should be restricted, or to canvass a specified region 

 to arouse interest in forestry and to explain its purposes and 

 practical application, or to take a position at the head of the 

 forest interests of a state and to develop an intelligent forest 



