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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



mcnts, which include roads, telephone lines and trails. 

 The plantations on the State Forests of Pennsylvania 

 have won more recruits to the cause of forestry than any 

 other single line of forestal endeavor. They are the 

 property of the State, with the citizens voluntarily serv- 

 ing as custodians. For 20 

 years trees have been 

 planted on the State forests, 

 and yet in spite of the large 

 acreage reforestated only 

 six-tenths of one per cent 

 of the total planted area 

 was burnt-over that is, 

 three - one - hundredths of 

 one per cent annually. This 

 creditable accomplishment 

 indicates that the protec- 

 tion afforded them was 

 good, and that planting on 

 the State forests is reason- 

 ably safe. 



More than 1,500 miles 

 of old roads have been im- 

 proved, and approximately 

 3,000 miles of new roads, 



trails and lanes have been constructed. This develop- 

 ment made possible better protection of the area and 

 opened up for recreation and utilization remote regions 

 containing large quantities of valuable forest com- 

 modities. 



The products of the State forests are being utilized 

 as rapidly as funds become available for carrying on 

 the operations. Much hypermature material has been 

 removed and marketed. The removal of dead, dying 



and damaged material is going on continuously, with the 

 result that the composition of the treated stands is being 

 improved and considerable revenue is realized. The fol- 

 lowing tabulation contains the amount of revenue derived 

 annually since 1900 from the sale of forest products: 



Year. Amount. 



1900 $1,227.87 



1901 1,951.57 



1902 1,578.70 



1903 9,758.02 



1904 1,373.94 



1905 2,247.67 



1906 5,001.24 



1907 3,955.89 



1908 2,473.76 



1909 5,267.11 



1910 9,176.09 



1911 6,460.08 



1912 12,585.67 



1913 13,076.07 



1914 15,066.64 



1915 13,483.84 



1916 21,459.97 



1917 21,569.69 



1918 24,410.24 



1919 34,517.15 



THE LARGEST BUILDING IN THE FOREST ACADEMY GROUP 



Total $206,641.21 



This statement shows how the income from the State 

 forests has been increasing, and it is safe to predict that 

 the achievements of the past are but a prelude to the real 

 financial accomplishments of the future, when the young 

 stands of forest trees which are now being established so 

 carefully and developed so safely and in accordance with 

 the principles of scientific forestry will have reached 

 merchantable size and increased in value sufficiently to 

 recommend their marketing. 



FORESTS AS A FARM CROP 



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softwood forest lands from which must come the lumber 

 used for construction of buildings, cars, and other struc- 

 tures, and most of the pulpwood used for the manu- 

 facture of paper. 



While, of course, part of the increase in lumber prices 

 is due to the conditions that have brought about the gen- 

 eral rise in the price level of all materials, 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 themselves, through careful handling of 

 their own woodlands, to protect the country against the 

 consequences of the present methods of the lumber in- 

 dustry and keep at a reasonable level the costs of lumber 

 and other forest products used by farmers. 



The benefits of forestry are very real benefits. While 



wise use of up-to-date methods of growing timber on 

 the part of farmers generally would mean a material in- 

 crease in the value to them of their farms, it would also 

 contribute very materially to the national welfare. It 

 would mean not only greater production of wealth, but 

 also of lcoal supplies of material necessary for many 

 industries. It cannot 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. 



