To the division of forestry of the experiment station 

 is left the task of working out better methods of 

 eradication, better methods of checking costs and 

 efficiency, and the location of the young growth of 

 white pine in the state that is worth protecting. Some 

 of this work has already been done. 



Most timber owners in this state are either ignor- 

 ant of or indifferent to the value of the young growth 

 on their lands. There Avas a time when the value of 

 that young growth seemed so remote that it did not- 

 pay to do anything with it. But that time has passed. 

 In fact, the time has come when we know there never 

 was a time when it would not have paid to look after 

 the young growth. There is many a hundred acres 

 which were cut over fifty years and have lain idle 

 under a crop of worthless brush ever since, which 

 would now be worth four times the value of the orig- 

 inal stand of beautiful virgin timber if the young 

 growths had been saved. The New Englanders fully 

 realize the value of their young pine. They plant 

 thousands of young trees, protect the natural second 

 growth from fire, insure it and care for it. 



When the danger from the blister rust was realized 

 in New Hampshire so many townships voted money to 

 combat the disease that enough men could not be 

 found to carry out the work. The pine is worth no 

 more to New Hampshire than it is to Minnesota and 

 it is time for timber owners here to be taking a 

 glance at the market of the future. 



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