

Legislation of this nature is now on the statute books of 

 New York, Pennsylvania, Louisiana and Connecticut and is in 

 contemplation in other states. Massachusetts and Ohio have 

 recently adopted constitutional amendments permitting such 

 legislation. Other states are moving in that direction and its 

 importance is becoming generally appreciated. 



Whether timber growing will be undertaken on any large 

 scale by private owners in this country, even under the most 

 favorable conditions of fire-protection, taxation and location 

 is problematical. The work is apparently one mainly for the 

 national and state governments though much can be done by 

 the private citizen who bears in mind the Scottish Laird's in- 

 junction in the "Heart of Mid-Lothian," when on his deathbed 

 he enjoined tree planting on his son, saying, "Jock, when ye 

 hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it 

 will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleepin'." 



Walter Scott in a footnote says of this, "The author has 

 been flattered by the assurance that this naive mode of rec- 

 ommending arboriculture (which was actually delivered in 

 these very words by a Highland Laird while on his deathbed, 

 to his son) had so much weight with a Scottish earl, as to 

 d to his planting a large tract of country." 



Finally turning to what has actually been done so far in our 

 ational and state forest reserves, we find that the national 

 government has, under the provisions of acts of Congress 

 enacted in 1891 and 1896, set aside for national forestry reserves 

 in some twenty states, areas comprising in all about 140,000,- 

 000 acres (not counting lands located within the boundaries 

 of the national reserves, but which have been alienated) in 

 addition to which there are nearly 27,000,000 acres in Alaska, 

 and about 66,000 acres in Porto Rico 167,066,000 acres of 

 government reserves; if we reckon with this the land located 

 within the boundaries of the national forests, approximately 

 23,000,000 acres, which have been alienated, we have about 

 190,000,000 acres in all. These reserves are admirably man- 

 aged by the United States forest service, organized in the 

 department of agriculture, and under the charge of Henry S. 

 Graves, United States Forester. 



Fourteen states have set aside areas ranging from 1,950 



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