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as approximately $97,800, which is less than 2 percent of the total 

 appropriations of the State forestry departments. This amount 

 covers only the sums definitely allocated to research. Undoubtedly 

 there were other State expenditures for research, but even if these 

 amounted to $50,000, which is unlikely, the aggregate was only a 

 little more than $3,000 for each State, an insignificant amount in 

 view of the forest values involved. 



Pennsylvania, spending about $21,000 annually on its Forest 

 Research Institute, leads the States in amount "spent for forest 

 research by State forestry administrative organizations. This may 

 be more than many of the States can undertake at present. With 

 more than 16 million acres of forest land already in State ownership 

 and 1,398,000 acres in the ownership of counties, and municipalities, 

 and with further growth anticipated both in the area of land so owned 

 and in the intensity of its use, a large increase in forest research by 

 State forestry departments or other State agencies seems inevitable. 

 The large area of timberland privately owned, amounting to 396 

 million acres in the class of commercial forest alone, calls for special 

 activity in the classes of research involved in extending immediate 

 aid to private timberland owners. The burden of this class of 

 research may appropriately be distributed among the State adminis- 

 trative organizations, the forest schools and agricultural colleges, and 

 the agricultural experiment stations, in whatever manner may best 

 fit the organizations in individual States. 



The State forest schools, of which there are 22 in 19 States, have 

 not as yet developed their research activities to the point of full 

 usefulness to the States. The estimate of aggregate research expendi- 

 tures in 1932 by forestry and other departments of State universities 

 and colleges, which is presented in the section " State Accomplish- 

 ments and Plans/' is $165,000. 



The forest schools, together with State colleges and universities 

 that do not provide forestry instruction might be made the agencies 

 for a large extension of forest research. Without the heavy burden of 

 administrative and advisory duties that rests on the State adminis- 

 trative departments, it would be possible for them to give the unin- 

 terrupted attention that is one of the prime essentials for research. 



According to the estimates in the section "State Accomplishments 

 and Plans," the State agricultural experiment stations are spending on 

 forest research something like $55,000 a year, of which about $14,000 

 is Federal grant funds. In addition, those of certain Western States 

 are spending about $75,000 for range research. 



The agricultural experiment stations have some advantage in 

 handling farm-forestry problems, because of the close association 

 between farm woodlands and other parts of the farm. Farm woods 

 make up about 25 percent of the entire forest area of the country 

 (from 30 to 50 percent in the Southern, Middle Atlantic, and Central 

 States). Because of the great aggregate extent of farm woodlands 

 and the value of the materials cut and sold from them, farm-woodland 

 products rank among the leading farm crops in a number of States. 

 Under complete forest management farm woodlands can undoubtedly 

 be made to produce much more than they now yield, with improve- 

 ment in quality and value. Their problems differ in important 

 respects from the management and utilization problems of extensive 

 timber tracts. 



