with the assistance and backing of the Government. 

 The Federal government should seek to secure concur- 

 rent action by the States within given economic re- 

 gional units, to bring about uniform standards of 

 practice, to conduct experiments and research, to 

 grant material aid in various ways, and to act as a 

 coordinating agent to bring together the different 

 local agencies into full cooperation. The Government 

 should make its assistance to the States contingent 

 upon effective action by the latter. 



Measures of forestry upon private lands sought by 

 the proposed program fall into two classes : first, 

 those necessary to prevent the lands becoming waste 

 after lumbering; and second, those which seek a 

 maximum production of timber and other products. 

 The first class of measures should be required on all 

 lands that ought to remain in forest growth. The 

 measures to secure maximum production are of a 

 more intensive character. They should be encouraged 

 in every way but would not be obligatory. They 

 involve a larger initial investment, and they render 

 a larger ultimate return to the owner. Under the 

 second class fall such measures as planting where 

 needed, leaving a larger number of seed trees, cutting 

 in favorable seed years, leaving medium sized trees 

 even though now saleable for a second cut or for 

 cover, various kinds of thinnings of second growth, 

 organization of the forest work on a basis of sustain- 

 ed annual yield, and so on. Experiments should be 

 conducted by the public to establish and make gen- 

 erally known the best practice in each region. Advice 

 by public officers should be freely afforded. Plant- 



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