the completion of a working plan for the regulation of 

 the cut in order that the timber which will ultimately 

 be needed for the support of these communities may 

 not be diverted into the general market.) 



"Our forests are composed of conifers entirely and 

 are open, virgin, unkept, burned, threatened often by 

 invasion by brush, producing one-half to one-fourth 

 capacity, often not reproducing. In France, the for- 

 ests are composed of soft and hardwoods serving all 

 purposes of adjacent communities, every acre produc- 

 ing to capacity. Some planted pine stands yield as 

 much in sixty years as our three hundred year old 

 stands. What is needed is the improvement of our stands 

 situated where they will serve local communities by 

 bringing their production up to capacity." 



(Comment: It is evident that this calls for fully 

 stocked reproduction which is the only way that the 

 yield of such stands can be increased and brought up 

 to standard.) 



"In France it pays the landlord, who is generally 

 but a representative of a family, to maintain the in- 

 tegrity of his forest. The public forests are equalizers 

 of price and supply and producers of necessary public 

 material such as ship timber, which it would not pay 

 the private owners to raise. Every Frenchman who 

 has ever bought a stick of cordwood knows the value 

 of forests. They have fires, but only a few, and a tre- 

 mendous fuss is raised about each one. It does occur 

 to a Frenchman to be careful with fire. The realness 

 of the services rendered the French communities by 

 their forests is all the attention, law and organization 

 needed to enforce care with fire. The cutting of the 



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