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merit of their farms by allowing free use of timber for domestic pur- 

 poses, and in other ways. 



The aims of the forest policy are : 



To prevent losses of this public property by fire. 



To utilize the ripe timber which can be marketed. 



To cut the ripe timber in such a way as to insure restocking of the 

 land and the continuance of forest production. 



To sell ripe timber at a price representing, as required by statute, 

 the appraised market value and a proper return to the public which 

 owns it. 



To sell ripe timber in such a way as to prevent its speculative 

 acquisition and holding. 



To prevent monopoly of public timber and to use it as far as pos- 

 sible to maintain competitive conditions in the lumber industry. 



To provide first for the requirements of local communities and indus- 

 tries, including free use and sale at cost to settlers as authorized by 

 statute. 



To make timbered lands of agricultural value available for settle- 

 ment, under conditions which prevent speculative acquisition but en- 

 courage permanent and genuine farming. 



To return as soon as possible the cost of protection and administration 

 and to yield a revenue to the states, which are entitled by statute to 

 25 per cent of all gross receipts as an offset to the loss of local taxes 

 through Government ownership of the forests. 



SOME ASPECTS OF FORESTRY. 



By TBEADWELL CLEVELAND, JR. 



Many people in this country think that forestry had never been tried 

 until our Government began to practice it upon the national forests. 

 Yet forestry is practiced by every civilized country in the world, except 

 China and Turkey. It gets results which can be got in no other way, 

 and which are necessary to the general welfare. Forestry is not a new 

 thing. It was discussed two thousand years ago, and it has been studied 

 and applied with increasing thoroughness ever since. 



The principles of forestry are everywhere the same. They rest on 



natural laws, which are at work everywhere and all the time. It is 



simply a question of how best to apply these laws to fit local needs and 



.conditions. No matter how widely countries may differ in size, climate, 



population, industry, or government, provided only they have forests, 



all of them must come to forestry some time as a matter of necessity. 



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The countries of Europe and Asia, taken together, have passed 

 through all the stages of forest history, and applied all the known 



