better off in the latter case? A good 

 farmer on good land is a blessing and 

 is the foundation of every state; a 

 poor man on a poor acre is a detri- 

 ment, and to place him there is a 

 public mistake and calamity. 



But this forestry is a new and un- 

 tried experiment? Forestry in Cen- 

 tral Europe is a thousand years old 

 and grew up side by side with other 

 forms of agriculture. 



To-day over one hundred million 

 acres of forests in Europe are man- 

 aged according to forestry principles, 

 and millions of people get all their 

 wood and timber from forests plant- 

 ed and cared for by the hand of man. 



Yes, but can this be done in our 

 State? Why not? Trees, like corn 

 and wheat, grow in our country in the 

 same way as they do abroad. Plant 

 trees and let them grow is all that 

 is necessary anywhere in our State, 

 for nature has carried on forestry 

 here for untold ages and evidently 

 had no difficulties. But you can not 

 burn up your forest crop and succeed 

 any more than you could succeed in 

 farming were you to burn up your 

 farm crops. 



But Does It Pay? 



"I can not afford this for sentiment 

 only." Perfectly right. Twenty-five 

 years ago the farmers in Southern 



