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well. To save our forests, planting of this sort 

 must be universal. It takes from fifty to one hun- 

 dred years to grow a crop of merchantable timber. 

 What the United States needs is a national for- 

 estry policy which will induce every landowner 

 to plant and grow more trees on land that is not 

 useful for farm crops. Our forestry problem is 

 to put to work millions of acres of idle land. As 

 one eminent forester recently remarked, "If we 

 are to remain a nation of timber users, we must 

 become a nation of wood growers." 



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