PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



In offering the second edition of The New Forestry to the 

 public the Author begs to thank those numerous Subscribers 

 to the first edition who have expressed their appreciation 

 of his work in such kind and flattering terms not only to 

 the publisher and himself, but also to their own friends and 

 acquaintances contributing in no small degree to the 

 success of the first edition, and the publication of the second 

 within a period of three years, and which the Author ventures 

 to regard as a sign that the book has to some extent fulfilled 

 its purpose. 



Among other objects aimed at in the present edition one 

 has been to show, more fully than has hitherto been 

 attempted, the wide difference between the wasteful and 

 unprofitable forestry system of the past, and the system 

 proposed to replace it in the future, as nothing is more 

 likely, the Author believes, to encourage planting as an 

 investment than a clear understanding on that head. 

 Another object has been to show owners of estates that they 

 may begin the new system with the means and appliances at 

 their disposal. Some owners are already moving in that 

 way, and their woods will probably, ere long, serve as 

 good examples of what may be accomplished by those who 

 chose to try. It is suggestive that some who have invoked 

 State aid and forestry education most earnestly have 



