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not forget that with vahie comes inducement to protect, and that that 

 is now having abundant illustration. But the fact I had especially in 

 mind to point out is that really shrewd and strong timbermen, in the 

 treatment of an investment, have had the rule to hold it until its main 

 resources represent considerable stumpage value, and then to cut. 

 Now that rule, as all should know, means better utilization than if the 

 property is cut on a low valuation. Here again economic forces Hne 

 up broadly with the general interest represented in utilization. They 

 operate automatically and on a large scale, too. 



These may be new ideas to many. They are not in fact so familiar 

 to me that I feel sure of making all due and necessary qualifications. 

 For there are qualifications — we may be sure of that before we recog- 

 nize them. To be fair I will say right here that I believe myself there 

 are utilities that are without value in the commercial sense that do need 

 protecting. Not that everything can be claimed under that, however. 



I find that Mr. Zon is turning over in his mind the line of thought 

 which I shall next take up, and as he is a persistent and candid man 

 he can be relied on, before he gets through, to do the matter justice. 

 I will therefore deal with it but briefly. I refer to thfe fact that lum- 

 bermen in following their own interests in woods operation have often 

 practiced good forestry — not seldom better in fact, when the results 

 were all in, than that proposed by the foresters. Here grace will lead 

 me to start with my own work and I do that gladly. P^erhaps, indeed, 

 you will say that the simple, unpretending work done in the years of 

 service with my old company was not forestry, that minor gains in 

 utilization and bringing the work of 500 men a trifle nearer to ideals 

 in respect to reproduction and growing stock, was not fit employment 

 for a member of the profession. Some thought that at the time 

 anyway, but times have changed now, and assuming the point, what I 

 have further to say is that, as I now see it, the good sense of my 

 employers pointed by their self-interest contributed a safeguarding 

 element that was essential to success, while to the system finally settled 

 on the loggers' ideas were nearer than those of the forester — ^that is 

 to say they had at the start a nearer appreciation than, I of the consid- 

 erations which had to govern. 



I could bring from the same region, that with which I am most fa- 

 miliar and from all stages of its history, many other illustrations of lum- 

 bering practice working out as good forestry, and some of forestry prin- 

 ciples applied to lumbering in a practically successful way. Confining 



