FEDERAL FINANCIAL AND OTHER DIRECT AID TO STATES 

 By A. B. HASTINGS, in charge of State cooperation 



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Federal aid in forest-fire protection 1054 



Federal aid in farm forest planting 1076 



Cooperation with States in farm forestry extension 1081 



Federal aid to States for roads 1087 



Federal land grants to States 1088 



Federal aid to State agricultural colleges and experiment stations __ 



Vocational education 1093 



The Senate resolution in response to which this report has been 

 prepared specifically raised the question of Federal aid to the States. 

 It is therefore fitting to outline the purposes and accomplishments of 

 Federal aid insofar as they relate to forestry interests, in order that 

 this form of activity may be properly appraised as a means of solving 

 our forestry problems, now and in the future. 



To summarize the status of Federal aid to States in its present 

 financial perspective, a list of current projects is given in table 1 . The 

 total of the appropriations as shown is more than $180,000,000, and 

 while there is no assurance that^the list is complete, sufficient care has 

 been taken to cover the major items. 



TABLE 1. Federal aid appropriations for the States for the fiscal year 1933 



Amount expended in fiscal year 1932. 



2 Amount expended in fiscal year 1929. 



It is impressive to note that the sums appropriated directly to for- 

 estry work in 1933 constitute less than 1 percent of the total. Al- 

 though such a ratio may roughly represent popular appreciation of 

 the need of aid to the States in forestry, it quite certainly fails to 

 measure the need in any real sense. 



In the discussion that follows, first attention will be centered on the 

 three specific forestry activities shown fire prevention, distribution 

 of nursery stock, and forestry extension. Several other activities, 

 having rather close relationships to forestry, will then be taken up in 

 order, 



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