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ing the future needs of timber at least must rely upon State 

 activity and upon planting on a large scale. 



As I stated at the outset I have no cut and dried plan for 

 setting in motion machinery to execute such planting propositions, 

 except to set every State forester, forestry commission, and 

 every State forestry association thinking on the matter, to make 

 them realize that their business is not only to conserve or secure 

 conservative use of existing resources, but to create new ones, 

 which shall flow when the existing ones are exhausted ; to recog- 

 nize that this is a more serious matter than can be met with 

 by the desultory distribution of a few thousand plants to private 

 planters, or the haphazard planting of a few acres ; that it requires 

 systematic procedure on a large scale. 



Each State forester should make a canvass of his State as to 

 the acreage which should be replanted, classifying it as to which 

 may be confidently left to private enterprise ; which to munici- 

 pal concern ; which to direct State enterprise ; which to be taken 

 in hand at once ; which to be left to future work. 



He should then work out a plan of State co-operation which 

 might take the form in the case of municipalities, besides furnish- 

 ing plant material and advice, of pledging the State's superior 

 credit for raising the necessary funds by bond issues for acquir- 

 ing plantmaterial and advice, of pledging the State's superior 

 power for the State. 



For New England, municipal enterprise is perhaps the best and 

 most promising, although in general direct State control may be 

 preferable. 



An example may illustrate the method of procedure. 

 Let us assume that a town has 5,000 acres of waste lands, 

 which it could secure for say $15,000, borrowing the money 

 from the State at 3% ; the 5,000 acres to be planted in a 25 year 

 campaign; that is at the rate of 200 acres per year, at a cost of 

 $8 per acre; the annual outlay of $1,600 also to be furnished by 

 the State from year to year, when the interest charges will be 

 $450 on the original investment and a series of interest pay- 

 ments of $48, increasing annually by $48. The loans will then, 

 in the 25th year, have accumulated to $55,000 and the interest 

 accumulations to $26,870, or $1,075 average per year, and the 

 highest last annual charge, $1,650 — amounts not difficult to raise! 



