General View of Nursery Beds 



the taxes on the whole place. There are countries in Europe 

 where the state forests not only pay all the taxes but bring 

 in a revenue as well. This same land which is now lying idle 

 and not producing a stick of timber is the home of the white 

 pine, the king of woods. This same land has not only yielded 

 millions but billions of dollars to the private enterprises 

 which have worked them. 



If this land subject to the Tavages of fire and with no pro- 

 tection can produce such a revenue what may we not expect 

 it to do if protected? We now have a forest service which 

 watches over these barren lands to see that fires in them 

 do not get under way to destroy timber now standing or 

 homes and lives adjacent to them. Would it not be better 

 to have this supervision over the same land with young tim- 

 ber growing on it instead of brush? It is to everybody's 



