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TEXAS SHOULD PRACTICE 

 FORESTRY 



E have now in mind the future health, 

 wealth and climate of Texas, as af- 

 fected by their woodland. The wooded area 

 of Texas exceeded that of any other 

 State, but has now shrunken to a mere 

 outline, says W. Goodrich Jones, president 

 of the Texas Forestry Association. The 

 average citizen will not read an appeal for 

 the conservation of our trees and has sub- 

 lime faith in his ignorance. Many pro- 

 claim, with the utmost faith, that the Lord 

 will provide a future timber crop when 

 the present stand of trees is gone. 



It is slowly dawning on some people of 

 this State that there is no perpetual re- 

 generation among our birds, fish and wild 

 game. Nearly every State in the Union 

 has hatcheries for fish. We should have 

 no Columbia River salmon, no lobsters, no 

 oysters, no mountain river trout, but for 

 protection. All Europe and Asia show 

 that droughts, floods and famine follow the 

 destruction of the timber land. 



Even today Texas is suffering from 

 droughts, floods, mud-choked rivers, over- 

 flowed bottoms, bars and shallowing harbors, 

 and the best lands on the farms washing 

 away. Ten million acres once in ipine and 

 another 10,000,000 in other woods. Gone is 

 the mesquite, cedar, and going into smoke 

 are the hard woods in our river bottoms. 

 Gone to Kansas and Nebraska and other 

 States, as well as to Europe, is a large part 

 of the pine product of Texas, until today 

 we barely have left 2,500,000 acres of virgin 

 pine. 



On 6,000,000 acres of cut-over timber 

 land in Texas, ill fitted for first-class 

 farming, while best fitted for another tim- 

 ber crop, less than 1,000,000 acres are 

 struggling with a new growth of pine. 

 Why are the other 5,000,000 acres idle? 

 The answer is, fire, hogs and lack of seed. 

 Will not this 1,000,000 acres supply our 

 needs for a future lumber supply? De- 

 cidedly no. 



The virgin forests have taken 100 years to 

 grow. It will take at least 6,000,000 acres 

 of new forests and fifty years to supply 

 Texas with its future lumber needs, even 

 then exercising great economy. This means 

 no waste and no growth in population. We 

 can not defer our planting another ten 

 years, when we shall have reached the 

 brink. If we do, we may then be compelled 

 o build our homes of Mexican adobe mud 

 and poles. Lumber is high enough now. 

 Think wtiat it will be when brought from 

 the Pacific Coast with added freight. Even 

 now the shipment of Oregon lumber has 

 begun to comoete with Texas pine. Do 

 k for relief to Louisiana and other 

 Southern States. They, too, are singing 

 the swan song to their forests. We here 

 in Texas need home-building lumber, 

 bridge timber, fuel, fence posts, ties, paper 

 stock and a thousand other uses for 

 timber. 



The war could not have been won with 

 out the artificially planted forests of 

 France. There is no harm in cutting the 

 timber if another crop is grown, but to 

 cut and waste the trees, fire annually the 

 fallow soil and young tree growth, is the 

 work of fools or mad men. 



The present timber land owner can not 

 afford to and will not grow a future tim- 

 ber crop for Texas. This problem lies 

 with the citizenship of the State. Louisiana 

 has found a solution for this question and 

 has started on the remedy. We want our 

 Legislature to adopt it for Texas also. 



REFORESTATION IN MAINE 

 '"FREES require only one-quarter the 



salts and other chemicals which gar- 

 den crops require and they can be grown 

 on steep slopes otherwise difficult to till, 

 says a member of the Faculty of Forestry 

 at Bates College, Maine. Therefore he be- 

 lieves that Maine has a wonderful oppor- 

 tunity to develop her forests, for the land 

 is naturally hilly and rocky in many places 

 and on such lands lumber would net larger 

 returns than the meager crops which could 

 be raised. Practical work in forestry in 

 the several thousand acres in York County 

 held by Bates College will be offered 

 students for preparation for graduate 

 schools for forestry, and to fit them to take 

 positions in the lumber industry, or in the 

 state forestry service. 



PAPER COMPANY SETS GOOD 

 EXAMPLE 



r PHE following is taken from a letter 

 from a member of the American For- 

 estry Association, Mr. John Weeks, of 

 Watertown, New York: 



"I am vice-president of the Diana Paper 

 Company which has its own nursery and 

 has planted trees for the last twelve years. 

 With the timber lands purchased fourteen 

 years ago in the Adirondacks on which we 

 have never cut a tree, we will be able in 

 a few years to be self-sustaining. This 

 may be news to the Association. Last year, 

 on account of the difficulties of getting 

 labor, we were unable to set out our usual 

 allotment, but our trees are doing fine 

 and we have already many twenty feet 

 high." This is a practical policy greatly 

 to be commended on the part of the paper 

 company. 



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