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The rejoinder is that stumpage values will be very much higher before 

 a long time and 4 per cent a higher rate than may be used in com- 

 pounding. Assuming the stumpage value at $12 all around, the deficit 

 is changed into profits. 



Colonel Graves in his original address laid the accent on regulation 

 of the operations of private owners and corporations with the same. 

 We quote his conclusions as to the character of the co-operation : 



It would be the aim to establish a minimum requirement which would apply 

 to all timberland owners. There would be, first, definite requirements as to fire 

 protection. Necessarih^ these w^ould vary somewhat as between regions, but 

 they would be substantially uniform within given economic forest units. They 

 would be carefully worked out as a part of the organized protective system for 

 ilie State. 



There would also be minimum requirements as to methods of cutting. The 

 aim would be to make provision for natural reproduction of good species to fol- 

 low lumbering. The method necessar}' to secure such natural reproduction will 

 necessarily be simple and within the possibilities of practical application. 



Co-operation with owners would be designed to overcome the obstacles that 

 are faced by individual owners who undertake unaided to practice forestry. 

 This co-operative aid would ordinarily fall within the following classes : 



1. Aid in fire protection. This would be similar in principle to that already in 

 existence in several States. As the requirements and standards would be greater 

 under the new plan, so also would the financial and administrative co-operation 

 1)e greater. 



2. Land classification. Any plan of requirements as to forest replacement in- 

 volves classification in order to determine the lands that should remain imder 

 forest. Such a classification is very practical, as is shown by the fact that the 

 Forest Service completed a similar classification of 150,000,000 acres of National 

 Forests in about five years. 



3. Establishment of a system of ta.xation that levies a reasonable annual tax 

 on the land, but collects the main tax on the timber when it is cut. 



4. Co-operation in technical methods of forest-work througii the advice of 

 experienced men in the public service. 



5. Aid in securing long-term loans at low rates of interest, through a credit 

 system similar to that of the Federal loans to farmers. 



6. Industrial co-operation. This may take a variety of forms. It may involve 

 labor problems, domestic trade relations, exports, tariffs, encouragement of 

 sound trade methods, industrial research, diffusion of useful information, etc. 



7. When public and private forests are adjacent or interlock, it may be desirab'c 

 to work out co-operative or joint undertakings, under adequate safeguards of 

 public control, to insure an economic development, a sustained production of 

 materials for the local industries, and the permanence of the communities with 

 the opportunities for sound community life. 



While we would employ every method that promises results ever so 

 little, we take the position that the control of private forest management 

 is surrounded wath such diflficulties that no early and satisfactory re- 



