22 THE TREE PLANTERS OF AMERICA 



PUBLIC OPINION 



Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, President University of California, 



Berkeley, Cal. 



I think your plan for the organization of the "Tree Planters 

 of America" is a good one. Anything that can be done to interest 

 our young people in trees and the planting thereof cannot be amiss. 



Thomas P. Egan, President J. A. Fay & Egan Company, Cincinnati, 



Ohio. 



We think your idea is great if any plan can be devised to 

 reforest the country through an organization of the farmer boys. It 

 would be the greatest benefit to this country that could be promul- 

 gated. We are in a position to know that the waste of the forests 

 is actually 50 per cent. In other words, there is not 50 per cent 

 of the actual lumber gotten out of the trees. In 90 per cent of the 

 cases where saw-mill people cut over the ground they cut down 

 both small and large and simply leave the small stuff to rot. 



If, in addition to the reforestation of the country, you could 

 devise some method of supervising the cutting of the timber it would 

 be the greatest boon to this country. In other words, when they cut 

 the large timber out of a large tract of land, to have a supervisor 

 to save the small timber, and make them leave standing the stuff 

 that they know cannot be used in the saw-mills. We offer this as 

 a suggestion and hope you can make use of it, and we know it 

 would be a great step in keeping the country forested as it should be. 



George W. McKerrow, Superintendent Department of Farmers' 



Institutes, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 

 Concerning "The Tree Planters of America," the work your 

 organization has undertaken and outlined is a good one. You will 

 find the Wisconsin Farmers' Institutes always ready to co-operate 

 with you in any practical lines you may have to suggest for the for- 

 warding of this work. 



L. A. Ault, President The Ault & Wiborg Company, Cincinnati. 



I am heartily in sympathy with the movement, and entirely 

 approve of the plan. 



E. H. Keeler, Secretary-Treasurer Rockford Lumber and Fuel 



Company, Rockford, 111. 



I have read with great interest the pamphlet, suggesting a plan 

 to reforest the country through an organization of the "Tree Plant- 

 ers of America," and assure you that the plan meets with my 

 enthusiastic approval. The American boy is quick to grasp a good 

 idea, and if his interest is aroused I am sure good results would 

 be accomplished. 



