MODERN FORESTRY 



less rough system of forestry, and I think that 

 the interest in the work is increasing through- 

 out the state." 



In all of the states where forestry is now 

 being so zealously studied, the question of fire 

 protection and fire prevention is being consid- 

 ered as one of paramount importance. 



But important as is all the work of the indi- 

 vidual states in the production of forests, one 

 of the most important advances promises to be 

 in the creation of new and fast-growing trees 

 along the lines laid down in the experimental 

 work of Luther Burbank, the great plant- 

 breeder. Mr. Burbank has demonstrated that 

 trees can be bred for any particular quality, — 

 for largeness, strength, shape, amount of pitch, 

 tannin, sugar and the like, for rapidity of 

 growth; in fact, that any desirable attribute 

 of a tree may be developed simply by breed- 

 ing and selecting. He has created walnut trees, 

 by crossing common varieties, that have grown 

 six times as much in thirteen years as their 

 ancestors did in twenty-eight years, preserving, 

 at the same time, the strength, hardness and 

 texture of their forebears. The grain of the 

 wood has been made more beautiful at the 



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