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360,541,000 board feet were lumber and an equal amount of pulpwood. 

 New York dropped below the billion- feet mark ten years ago and shows 

 no sign of recovering its former position. 



Under the heading of war work, mention is made of the wood-fuel 

 campaign, the timber census, etc. Among the forestry lessons taught 

 by the w^ar are cited the need of protecting watersheds by reforesta- 

 tion, for the purpose of greater power; that timber-growing must be 

 encouraged by proper taxation, in order that it may be profitable for 

 land-owners to use suitable land for the production of a forest crop ; 

 that wood must be used more freely as fuel, and that forests must be 

 protected more effectively than ever before. 



To all of which the reader will say, "Amen — so be it." But he will 

 look in vain for any mention of another lesson taught .by the war, 

 equally obvious and of capital importance, namely, that the State forest 

 preserve should be made an asset rather than an expensive luxury. 

 The Conservation Commission in 1918 spent $875,702.68; it took in 

 $349,621.75. Here is a deficit of half a million dollars, most or all of 

 which can be saved the taxpayers by the judicious sale of matured 

 timber. 



A. B. R. 



