88 C. A. SCHENCK. 



1840 First Forest Census, reporting 31,000 saw-mills, averaging 

 $400 value of annual output (prices higher than now:). 



1865 Great development of the lumber industries by the rapid 

 opening of the Lake States, and the building of railroads. 



18601870 Appearance of scattering articles in agricultural 

 reports and magazines in regard to indirect utility of the 

 forest (mostly translated from European works). 



THIRD PERIOD, 18701910.- "INFANCY OF FOREST 



POLICY." 



1870 First attempt to canvass the forest resources of the U. S. 

 by Prof, F. W. Brewer (ninth census). 



1873 First publication on forest policy by Dr. J. A. Warder, 

 and by G. P. Marsh, on "The Earth as Modified by Human 

 Action." 



1873 American Society for the Advancement of Science memo- 

 rializes Congress and the State legislatures to "promote 

 cultivation of timber and to preserve the forests" and 

 recommends proper legislation towards that end. 



1873 Timber culture act, making it possible to acquire a quarter 

 section of prairie land by planting 40 (or less in later 

 years) acres in trees. Up to 1889, out of thirty million 

 acres entered under this law, only 779,000 acres were 

 granted. Law was repealed in 1891. 



18701877 All prairie States, also Wisconsin, Minnesota, Penn- 

 sylvania, New York and Connecticut, begin to grant 

 bounties or tax release on forest planting. 



1876 Congress appropriates $2,000 for a forest agency in the 

 Department of Agriculture. Duties of the agent: To 

 gather statistics and to furnish information. Dr. F. B. 

 Hough appointed. Three voluminous reports. 



1878 Timber and Stone Act. 



1881 Agency is advanced to the rank of a division. 



1882 Formation of the "American Forestry Congress," styled 

 thereafter "American Forestry Association," at Cincinnati, 

 by the influence of Baron von Steuben. 



18801890 Decade of "Paper Work" by State commissions. 

 1880 Monumental report on forestry by C. S. Sargent in Tenth 

 Census. 



