REPORT OF SPECIAL FORESTRY COMMITTEE 39 



an encouragement to the owners of private lands 

 and educate them so that they will become inter- 

 ested in the replanting of their lands. In the East- 

 ern States the demand is already taking the output 

 of the State nurseries, and in New York the Fores- 

 try Department complain because they have too 

 little left for the replanting of their own lands. 

 Millions of small trees are now being purchased 

 from their nurseries and planted upon private es- 

 tates. From 1908 to 1913 their total sales aggre- 

 gated 12,014,635 trees, sufficient to reforest approxi- 

 mately 12,000 acres. 



This work is only in its infancy. Each year as 

 the people become educated as to the returns which 

 may be expected from such work the demand will 

 increase and it will require hundreds of acres of 

 nursery beds to keep up with the advancement. 



Already demands have been made upon the 

 Wisconsin Forestry Board for nursery stock. The 

 Dupont Powder Co., operating in Bayfield county, 

 attempted to procure white and norway transplants 

 for the replanting of their cut-over lands. On account 

 of our output of only one million trees for 1914 and 

 by reason of the necessity for planting State hold- 

 ings, this request was refused. 



There is no intention on the part of the State 

 Board of Forestry of Wisconsin, or, in fact, of the 

 Forestry Departments of any of the States, to enter 

 into competition with commercial nurseries. At 

 the present time, however, these nurseries have been 

 unable to supply the millions of trees required for 

 private planting, but as soon as they are able to 

 do so and furnish the stock at a reasonable price, 

 the States will be glad enough to retire from this side 

 of the work and devote their planting stock to 

 reforesting State lands. The commercial nurseries 

 up to date have only been able to keep up with 

 the demand for the ornamental stock, whereas in 

 Germany they can supply planting stock by the 

 tens of millions. It will only be a few years when 

 private individuals in Wisconsin will take up this 



