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to (circular 33), that there may be wrong impressions by that 

 body of noble men and women as to the real area of forests in 

 existence in the United States. In the speech by Hon. Gifford 

 Pinchot, he is quoted as saying: "It should be remembered 

 by every forester, and every man interested in forestry, that the 

 woodlands in farms are about three times as great in extent as 

 all the national forest reserves." This remark was thrown out 

 as an encouragement to all to conserve what they have and thus 

 co-operate with the government and the great lumber com- 

 panies. By the expression "woodlands in farms," has the gen- 

 tleman reference to what would be listed as such in Ohio or any 

 of these Eastern States? 



Twenty years ago there were hundreds of pieces of "timber 

 lots" in this region, pure, native woodlands, with gigantic speci- 

 mens of the hard woods. From fifteen to ten years ago those 

 same pieces of native forests resounded with the axe, buzz of the 



Photo 192 

 Weeping Beech, Hill-and-Dale Farm, Mamaroneck, N. Y. 



