474 United States. 



produced in a iew days, others in a few months or a few years, 

 but limber in not less than one generation. The nation has 

 slept because the gnawing of want has not awakened her. She 

 has had plenty and to spare, but within thirty years she will be 

 conscious that not only individual want is present, but that it 

 comes to each from permanent national famine of wood." 



The article is full of interesting detail, and may be 

 said to be the starting basis of the campaign for better 

 methods which followed. 



Another unquestionably most influential, official 

 report was that upon "Forests and Forestry in Ger- 

 many," by Dr. John A. Warder, United States Com- 

 missioner to the World's Fair at Vienna in 1873. 

 Dr. Warder set forth clearly and correctly the methods 

 employed abroad in the use of forests, and became 

 himself one of the most prominent propagandists for 

 their adoption in his own country. 



About the same time appeared the classical work of 

 George B. Marsh, our minister to Italy, "The Earth 

 as Modified by Human Action," in which the evil 

 effects on cultural conditions of forest destruction 

 were ably and forcibly pointed out. 



Among these earlier publications designed to arouse 

 public attention to the subject, should also be men- 

 tioned General C. C. Andrews' report on 'Forestry 

 in Sweden,' published by the State Department in 

 1872. 



The Census of 1870 attempted for the first time a 

 canvas of our forest resources under Prof. F. W. 

 Brewer, as a result of which the relative smallness of 

 our forest area became known. 



All these publications had their influence in educat- 



