generations to follow him. Systematic planting, 

 culture, and conservation of trees; prompt utilization 

 of fallen timber for fuel or the industries; a permanent 

 and profitable wood lot for every farm; co-operation of 

 Art with Nature in the transformation of the landscape 

 from the unsightly to the beautiful. These should be 

 cardinal duties of the youthful Tree Planters. 



The farmer should raise his crop of trees as he does 

 other products of the farm. It will, however, be a 

 crop in perpetuity, from father to son through all 

 future years. With the Tree Planters active the cost 

 of reforestation will be reduced to a minimum; the 

 burden of expense resting lightly on each unit of the 

 movement, ie., on the nation, state, county, township 

 and individual. 



There is nothing in the plan to inspire an excessive 

 militant spirit or to develop habits of destructiveness. It 

 does not, in any sense, emphasize the dubious "Cowboy 

 and Indian" idea, so manifestly, and sometimes fatally, 

 operative among the boys in the trail of a Wild West 

 show, or under the baleful influence of the degenerate 

 dime novel. The life of the tree planter, the farmer and 

 the homebuilder is distinctly along lines of practical 

 achievement, beneficence and universal peace. 



The cordiaicommendations by leaders of thought and 

 action in many lines of endeavor, from every section of 

 the country, some of which are herein submitted, indicate 

 a deep and widespread interest in scientific re-forestation 

 by the farmer boys and youth of the Nation. Hence 

 it is earnestly hoped that the United States Govern- 

 ment, the States, and all the various organizations of the 

 country with aims for the general welfare, now and here- 

 after, will heartily co-operate to carry the "Tree Plant- 

 ers of America" to a conclusion of lasting results. 



