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3. Large areas which would smack of feudalism if owned 

 privately are required for conservative forestry-. 



4. Far sighted management cannot be expected from private 

 owners. 



5. Constitutional prohibition of entailed property. Lack of 

 town forests. 



6. The commonweal pays no taxes ; public forestry is there- 

 fore more remunerative than private. 



7. The private individual is unwilling to sacrifice a direct 

 revenue for an indirect revenue obtainable from the forest. 



8. The commonweal employs a police force (sheriffs, mar- 

 shals, etc.) anyhow, and it may secure, through the army 

 and the militia, increased protection for its forests. 



9. Possibility of special laws relative to trespassing, firing, 

 pasturing, squatting, and timber-stealing on state lands. 



10. Where the public owns large tracts, there is no need to 

 induce private individuals to manage their forests conserva- 

 tively, either by force or by premia. 



11. Realties owned by the commonweal increase the State's 

 credit at exchange. 



12. Some forests, namely those of protective character, must 

 be owned by the commonweal anyhow, and the staff in charge 

 of the State's protective forests might as well take charge of the 

 State's revenue forests. 



C. The federation is better fitted for the practice of forestry 

 than the individual states for the following reasons: 



1. The head of a river from which the water comes, and 

 the mouth of a river where inundations take place and where 

 navigation is to be protected, are not situated in one and the 

 same state. 



2. State governments are less educated, less conservative, and 

 less far sighted than the federal government. 



3. The nation might avail itself of the army in officering the 

 forests. The forest staff, as in foreign countries, might yield 

 officers and subalterns for the army in case of war. 



4. Many states (e. g., Pennsylvania and Wisconsin) are preven- 

 ted by their constitution from contracting the loans which would 

 be required for the purchase of forest reserves. The present 



