14 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



seldom considered, there remain two facts upon which most 

 of the interest of forestry will depend. 



First, that the country must have wood, and our supply is 

 becoming scarcer as our population is becoming larger. 



Second, if we are obliged to buy wood we expend money. 

 If we sell wood we make money, and if the wood is raised upon 

 .soil which is otherwise unproductive, it is so much clear gain. 



One point more is worthy of a moment's consideration. 

 The pulpwood is of growing importance, because in the 

 first place the demand for woodpulp is increasing and the 

 supply can be more speedily produced than we can produce 

 lumber, and because while the lumbering industry gives em- 

 ployment to labor but part of the year the pulp industry affords 

 employment all the year, and because a cord of wood manu- 

 factured into paper may be worth forty dollars, and a cord of 

 wood in the form of lumber would be worth but about seven 

 dollars. 



It should be added that sprouts from stumps of such 

 species of oak as produce tannin in paying quantity should 

 be protected especially against grazing cattle, because they 

 may grow into value in from fifteen to thirty years, and the 

 demand for this must surely increase. It is well known, too, 

 that the best bark, producing the most tannin with the least 

 loss, comes from young, and not from old bark. 



I thank you for your attention. 



Secretary GOLD. There is now an opportunity for any 

 question or for discussion on this topic which we have had so 

 finely presented by Dr. Rothrock. 



Professor BREWER. I would like to say a word on this 

 matter. It is not an entirely new subject to me. I have 

 talked to our farmers before about woods and woodlands of 

 this State. Some twenty years or more ago I spoke at one of 

 our Agricultural Conventions upon this subject, and at that 

 time gave the legal definition of forestry as it was formerly 

 understood. In the olden time in England forestry was a 

 very important subject, and it is well to understand what a 

 forest then was in a legal sense. It was not merely a wood- 

 land, but included also pastures and open grounds; it was a 

 place for wild animals to live in, a hunting ground for the 



