Among these are the oaks, walnuts, yellow poplar, 

 hickory, ash, maple, elm, and beech, which are indis- 

 pensable for many of our most important and wood- 

 using industries, such as the manufacture of furniture, 

 vehicles, and farm tools and machinery. Farmers own 

 about one-third of all the softwood forest lands from 

 which must come the lumber used for construction 

 of buildings, cars, and other structures, and most of 

 the pulpwood used for the manufacture of paper. 



While, of course, part of the increase in lumber 

 prices is due to the conditions that have brought 

 about the general rise in the price level of all mater- 

 ials, part of it is due to the failure to keep productive 

 the forest lands in the older settled parts of the 

 country. Much can be done by the farmers them- 

 selves, through careful handling of their own wood- 

 lands, to protect the country against the consequences 

 of the present methods of the lumber industry and 

 keep at a reasonable level the costs of lumber and 

 other forest products used by farmers. 



The benefits of forestry are real benefits. While 

 wide use of up-to-date methods of growing timber 

 on the part of farmers generally would mean a ma- 

 terial increase in the value to them of their farms, 

 it would also contribute very materially to the na- 

 tional welfare. It would mean that not only greater 

 production of wealth, but also of local supplies of 

 material necessary for many industries. It can not 

 be emphasized too often that the country must have 

 forests, widely distributed and abundant. It will not 

 do for us to depend entirely on supplies that are 

 thousands of miles away from the consumer. 



By learning and applying the principles of forestry, 

 as a part of intelligent agriculture, our farmers will 

 make their forest property serve the national welfare 

 at the same time as their own. 



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