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must be handled the same as other property, so there is a need 

 for young men, a need for men to be trained so that they may 

 know how to organize and how to properly manage our forest 

 interests. After the work of educating foresters is well in 

 hand and the great advantage of properly conducting our 

 forests becomes apparent in this country, the farming element 

 will naturally follow and apply more conservative methods to 

 the management of their own forest lands. In connection 

 with the Yale school we propose to do forest planting. We 

 propose next spring to start a plantation of forest trees on 

 land now under our control not far from this city. We pur- 

 pose to have a nursery and establish seed beds where various 

 kinds of trees may be grown for demonstration purposes. It 

 is the aim of the work to make it as practical as we can. We 

 know we cannot apply at the present development of forestry 

 in this country complicated methods of forest management. 

 The present demand of the country will not permit it. Just 

 as soon as we begin to give some consideration to the regen- 

 eration of forests on our lands, then there will begin the prac- 

 tice of forestry. When the public appreciate this fact, then 

 they will begin to look out for the future crop, they will be- 

 gin the application of correct methods. Our aim is to have 

 our methods such as to meet the economic demands of the 

 country. 



Without saying anything further on this subject directly 

 concerning the school, I want to make a few remarks regard- 

 ing the statement made by Dr. Rothrock relative to the in- 

 direct value of forests. He told you forests were not only 

 valuable for the direct value of the wood itself, but that they 

 were valuable indirectly on account of their value in the con- 

 servation of moisture. We do not claim that they increase 

 the rainfall, but we know that they conserve the rainfall, and 

 that the greater the area of forest land is, the better, from the 

 standpoint of humidity, is the agricultural land in the vicinity. 

 I am very much interested in the protective side of forestry, 



