36 REPORT OF SPECIAL FORESTRY COMMITTEE 



with forest rangers, telephone lines, lookout* towers, 

 fire lines and roads, the young and growing timber is 

 protected from the onslaughts and ravages of fire. 



By artificial reforestation we mean the growing of 

 the young trees in the nurseries, the transplanting of 

 the same on the cut-over lands and their protection 

 by the methods heretofore mentioned. 



That artificial reforestation will become a source of 

 profit to the State has been proven beyond doubt, 

 not only in such countries as Germany, the Scandi- 

 navian Peninsula, Denmark and France, but also by 

 experimental plantations carried on in the United 

 States. The Germans claim an average annual net 

 revenue of $3.50 per acre from their planted forests. 

 There can be no question of ultimate profit if prop- 

 erly managed for the manifest reason that by the 

 time a forest planted now becomes mature, our 

 present naturally grown ones will have become so 

 exhausted that the market price of all forest products 

 must be that of the cost of growing trees from the 

 seed plus a fair profit, just as the price of wheat, 

 corn or any other product of the soil is and must be 

 that of its cost with reasonable profit added. De- 

 mand and supply will regulate price here as well as 

 elsewhere. 



The Monaghan plantations near Mount Alto in 

 Franklin County, Pennsylvania, afforded one of the 

 best opportunities for the Committee to see results 

 obtained from the planting of white pine. This 

 plantation was made on an old cultivated field. 

 The best results cannot be obtained from such 

 planting. Foresters all agree that where there is a 

 growth of other varieties for protection such as 

 aspen, pin cherry and the like, the pine growth is 

 much more sturdy. This planting was made in 

 April, 1902, for experiment only. The young trees 

 were two years old when set out, at a distance of 

 four feet. A photograph taken in 1904, two years 

 after planting, shows them less than six inches in 

 height. A later photograph, taken in December, 

 1906, shows a maximum height of 31.50 inches with 



