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man who is willing to learn more by doing things which he and 

 the farmers want to do together. 



I consider it a privilege of the Society of American Foresters 

 to make suggestions looking towards the proper establishment of 

 this work. I consider it a duty of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, in which the Forest Service should take a foremost part, 

 to make that establishment* The woodlot owners will not be 

 slow in accepting help which will make a neglected and com- 

 paratively unproductive part of their farms a source of revenue, 

 that can be drawn on almost at will, and which can be kept in 

 storage indefinitely without deteriorating and without storage 

 charges. There has been some tendency, whenever State for- 

 esters were appointed, to consider that the Forest Service should 

 stand aloof and give the States a free field. As well say that 

 the Department of Agriculture should keep out of those States 

 which have State departments of agriculture. I hope that it 

 will not be long before the Forest Service has some man or men 

 definitely in charge of woodlot management and working in 

 cooperation with all the other agencies of the Department and of 

 the States and with the farmers themselves in a work which 

 needs but to be started to succeed. 



