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property under the promise to treat the same in accordance with the best 

 scientific and practical rules for the tenefit of the country, as well as for 

 the state. 



As the United States give new settlers tree claims, with almost a cer- 

 tainty that no trees will he the result, why not give a responsible state 

 which is willing and able to fulfill her promise, this so important area as 

 a total tree claim? 



It is thus the more proper as the father of the rivers receives a great 

 supply of water from this source, which would be stopped by the destruc- 

 tion of the forest in question. 



The state will not have any expense which will not be covered from the 

 sale of wood, but will realize a surplus and a cash income, besides the 

 great benefits derived for agriculture and commerce. 



A gradual renewing of the trees may take place in dividing the whole 

 in forty or eighty parts or sections, and every second or every year a sec- 

 tion may be renewed, so as to have a ciclus of eighty years for the whole, 

 alter which the first cut down and rejuvenized will be again ready for the 

 woodman's axe, with far more material upon it than for the first cut. 



God's speed and best luck for a beginning in the right direction, the 

 good example will encourage followers in the same or other directions 

 with the aim of possessing forests. 



Hoping that this earnest and well meant request will find willing ears 

 and a strong will, which does not shirk before obstacles, I am gentlemen, 

 Yours very respectfully, 



P. P. SCHATZKA, 

 German Graduated Forester. 

 Minneapolis, Jan. 19, 1891, 611 25th av. S. 



FOKESTEY. 



BY B. B. FERNOW, CHIEF OF FORESTRY DIVISION, DEP'T. AGRICULTURE. 



For more than twenty years forestry has been talked about in this 

 country; but in proportion to the efforts of those who would have our 

 present attitude as a people toward our forest resources changed, there 

 has been but little accomplished practically. 



One reason for this slow progress in forestry reform is the fact that not 

 even the friends of this reform are fully aware what is meant by it. But 

 few of them understand exactly what the aims and advantages, what the 

 methods and practices of forestry are; and hence they have not been able 

 to effectually influence those who are expected to practice forestry. 



The lumberman has been led to believe that the movement for forest 

 preservation was inimical to his trade: the owner of woodlands was kept 

 in fear that an unreasonable control of his property might be attempted, 

 while the planter in the treeless plains was led to expect more from his 

 efforts than is reasonable, and tree planting was made to appear equiva- 

 lent with forest planting. The methods and practices of the nursery- 

 man or orchardist were believed to satisfy the forester. 



In Minnesota both branches of forestry, namely the management of 



