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run only for the production of timber, or on steep, rocky and 

 cold slopes, where farm crops can never be produced successfully. 



Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, the lumber 

 industry was centred in New York and Pennsylvania ; Albany 

 playing that role which is being played now-a-days by Chicago. 

 In the sixties, the lumber industry moved westward to the 

 Lake states ; Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee were cleared 

 of timber with a phenomenal rapidity. By the end of the century 

 the predominance in lumber production of the north and north- 

 west had ceased, and the lumber industry of the south became 

 paramount. Whilst many of the eastern states have lost their 

 importance from the standpoint of lumber production in the 

 relative sense, they have maintained, or even increased their 

 production of lumber absolutely. 



A definite and successful forest policy by the various states 

 meant to provide for the conservation of the forests has not, 

 it must be admitted, been inaugurated anywhere ; the tendency 

 still prevails, in the forest policy of the various states, to ad- 

 vance lumbering and the industries connected with lumbering 

 rather than forest growth. 



In the public land states, the majority of the work in forestry 

 was, and still is, left by the state to the nation. In the eastern 

 states we find, more recently, frequent cases of co-operation 

 between state and nation ; generally, in a preliminary way, can- 

 vassing the forest resources of the state. 



The south has been prevented, by its very poverty, from 

 taking any action in a policy of forest conservation ; while the 

 north has, in the recent past, made some strides towards progress. 



Eighteen states have begun fire protective systems, viz., 



the three states of the Pacific coast; 

 the three Lake states; 



three states in the south, viz., Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee; 

 and all of the northeastern states with the exception of Rhode 

 Island. 



A number of the states have had (or still may have) "forest 

 commissions" ; and the relegation of forestry to these forest 

 commissions is, in many of the states, responsible for putting to 

 sleep the movement towards conservative forestry. The com- 



