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2. The reforestation in the most economical way of similar lands, 

 now denuded, and securing for them the very l)est management possible. 



3. The maintenance of such other tracts as may be necessary to secure 

 the proper protection to our agricultural, commercial, and sanitary 

 interests. 



4. The securing of all needed legislation that will place our forestry 

 interests in the hands of competent persons and supporting them by all 

 authority necessary to secure wise management and permanency to the 

 proper conditions. 



As bearing upon the direct solution of these problems I may be per- 

 mitted to make some specific recommendation.s. The State should estab- 

 lish forest reserves in different sections whei-e at the public expense pe- 

 culiar problems connected with each locality could be worked out by 

 experts in charge and plans presented that would be sufficiently profitable 

 to induce private capital to engage in the undertaking. It is further de- 

 sirable that the State follow the plan already inaugurated in this country 

 and establish in connection with one of our State institutions a school of 

 forestry where our people could be trained in this branch of industrial 

 activity and where the forestry interests of the State could be centered. 



But in all of these matters the intelligent support of Indiana's best 

 citizens is solicited and it is only with the hearty cooperation of every 

 one that anything worthy of our great State can be accomplished. 



Many fascinating fields for work and investigation along these lines 

 are opening in Indiana, and it is hoped that our scientific friends may be 

 induced to cooperate with our State board in these matters. 



CORKELATION OF FORESTRY AND THE SCIENCES. 



W. H. Freeman. 



Forestry as the science of promoting and fostering the forest area by 

 preservation and cultivation has a significant correlation with the more 

 prominent sciences of geography, zoology, engineering, manufacture and 

 government. 



This as a fact is beyond questioning, but the ways, manner and extent 

 of the correlation are not generally known, nor have educators, especially 

 in the United States, given it merited consideration. There are excuses for 

 this. Educators and the people generally are not to be censured for this 



