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■for each State, to be devoted to forest research in the same manner as 

 the fnnds from the Hatch bill are devoted to agricultural research. If 

 this plan can be carried through, it will put forestry, as w^ell as forest 

 research, on the map in this country. Forestry research would be 

 placed on the same basis as agricultural research. 



Everything which strengthens forestry in the States and in the edu- 

 cational institutions strengthens the United States Forest Service. The 

 research branch of the National Forest Service would have nominal 

 oversight over the State forest experiment stations, just as the United 

 States Agricultural Experiment Station has nominal oversight over the 

 State agricultural experiment stations. The calendar, alreadv sug- 

 gested, might finally give way to a publication on the lines of the Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station Record, but less voluminous, to be a clear- 

 ing-house for forest research throughout the entire country. Every 

 forester and every friend of forestry should work for a second Hatch 

 bill, that forestry and forest research may take the place in this country 

 that its economic importance demands. 



It was a wise and far-seeing law that spread the funds of the Hatch 

 bill into every State in the Union, to be used for a specific purpose, with 

 just enough oversight by a national agency to unify agricultural re- 

 search and hold it together. It would be a great mistake were all the 

 funds needed for forest research administered through the red tape of 

 a national agency. The agricultural experiment station system of this 

 country has demonstrated its usefulness; forest research should adopt 

 its methods. 



P- S. — Since the presentation of the above paper in New York, a 

 number of additions and changes have been made in it, due to the dis- 

 cussion following its presentation, later correspondence with many 

 American foresters, and additional information from European sources. 

 The revised paper was read at the recent meeting of the New England 

 Forestry Congress. The additions relate chiefly to more information 

 regarding the organization of forest research in Europe, and the 

 changes relate to modifications in the first plan proposed for unified 

 forest research in this country. 



The organization for forest research in Denmark was at first along 

 lines very nearly like those in this country. A section for forest re- 

 search was established in that country in 1883 as a branch of the office 

 for the management of government forests. This branch was com- 

 parable to our branch of forest research in the United States Forest 

 Service. Denmark found that this plan did not produce satisfactory 



