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omists, and laymen alike as authorities on cost-finding methods as 

 related to forest products, as experts on tariff questions related to lum- 

 ber, as experts on lumber distribution, and other like subjects. Why 

 are not foresters called into consultation by courts and Government 

 agencies on questions involving tariff' legislation, export policy, lumber 

 transportation, and like issues? It is, I think, largely because we have 

 been content in the past to devote our attention to the problems which 

 seem more closely related to forestry and have neglected the broader 

 economic phases of the subject, which did not seem at the moment of 

 so great interest or of such vital importance. 



Forestry is now accepted as a part of our national activity, but we 

 have made but little progress in the practice of forestry on private 

 lands. I feel that one of the ways in which a greater respect for for- 

 estry can be inculcated in the minds of lumbermen is for the profession 

 to take a more active part in solving the economic problems of the in- 

 dustry. When the lumberman finds that the profession has a greater 

 knowledge of his business economics than he himself, and when the 

 forester actually shares, as he can and may, in the solution of some of 

 the knotty problems of the industry which may come before Govern- 

 ment departments or courts for action, then we may expect to see a 

 desire for co-operation on the part of the lumbermen from the stand- 

 point of self-defense. Until we have some such club to wield we may 

 expect the lumbermen to continue to hold themselves aloof from for- 

 estry in most of its phases. 



In closing, I want to urge on you the need for the immediate up- 

 building of this phase of forestry and the giving of the full recognition 

 to the subject which it demands. Silviculture and related branches of 

 forestry are well and good, but without a chance to apply them on 

 private holdings they come to naught. The entering wedge to private 

 forestry now appears to be through the economic door, and every 

 encouragement should be given to its development. 



