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he can harvest his timber crop. Each one in this audience has been asked 

 scores of times this question : "If I plant trees how long will it be before 

 they are post size, or large enough to market?" The average man is not 

 greatly attracted by a long time investment, and unless we can educate 

 him to believe that such an investment is desirable because of its safety and 

 the certainty of its ultimate returns, we will see our woodlands not only 

 diminish in area but also in quality. 



Incidentally the landowner should be made to understand that high 

 grade land suitable for annual crops should not be used for forestal pur- 

 poses. Only the other day a man asked me to advise him as to what trees 

 to plant on some ten or twelve acres of land he proposed to devote to that 

 purpose. When asked the value of the land he gave it as one hundred and 

 fifty dollars an acre. Of course the answer was easy plant no trees on 

 such land, raise annual crops. I could take you to catalpa plantings in 

 this state on land worth over two hundred dollars an acre. 



Another matter should be emphasized in the education of the landowner 

 and that is the impossibility of having a woodland and a woods pasture on 

 the same area. A perennial question is: "Under what kind of trees will 

 bluegrass grow?" It is perhaps too much to hope that the present gener- 

 ation of landowners will get away from the conviction that "woodland" 

 and "woods pasture" are not synonymous terms, but any forestal educational 

 policy should provide against this fatal fallacy being carried on into the 

 next generation. The other day I asked one of my assistants to go through 

 all of the bulletins that have come to me from the Forest Service and look 

 for those giving directions as to procedure in the establishment or improve- 

 ment of woodlands. He looked over some five hundred bulletins and 

 reported there were none bearing upon that subject. This of course does 

 not prove that there are not such bulletins but it does indicate that they 

 are not as numerous as the importance of the subject demands. In this 

 field again the forestal educational policy should be centralized, at 

 least to the extent of unifying the principles laid down in such cases. In 

 any event a nation-wide campaign emphasizing certain basic practices in 

 successful woodland management would be far more effective than the 

 present haphazard method, under which bulletins issue as they "happen" 

 rather than in accordance with a definite and clearly wrought out policy. 

 In a word, in the past in this phase of forestal endeavor there has been 

 too much propaganda and not enough education. 



The great mass of people and more especially, those in urban com- 

 munities are not especially interested in forestry. Points of contact are 

 relatively remote and yet before any very great advance can be made 

 these uninterested people must be interested and made apostles of a new 

 order. One of the best methods of awakening interest is through an 

 appeal to local pride. In Indiana, the purchase of^ Turkey Run park and 

 Spencer park, the acquiring of the State Forest Reserve, the agitation for 

 a great park area in the dune region, and the development of municipal 

 parks has done more to further interest in forestry than all other agencies 

 combined. From these lesser areas with restricted use to the larger areas 

 with limitless possibilities is an easy and natural step. When in addition 

 to this the people are educated to a realization that these parked and for- 



