A FOREST QUESTIONNAIRE 



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growth up to the present annual consumption. 



"Do you favor laws to insure the lumbering of com- 

 mercial timber without waste, the reproduction of forests 

 on cut-over land, and the protection of all forests from 

 devastation by fire? 



"If so, do you favor bringing this about (a) by the 

 nation and the states expanding their forest holdings 

 to cover all commercial timber lands chiefly valuable 

 for forest purposes not conservatively protected and 

 managed by private owners? (b) By the nation and 

 states holding large reserve areas of forest land, and 

 enacting laws requiring private owners to protect and 

 reforest their timber land? 



"If the latter, do you favor the enactment of a separate 

 law by each of the states, or one law by the National 

 Congress ? 



"Do you believe that this country should cut annually 

 more wood than it produces, without making provision 

 for the future? 



"If not, what provision should be made for another 



source of timber supply when the present is exhausted? 



"What factors other than underproduction and the 



growing shortage of standing timber are responsible 



for the high prices of lumber ? 



"Do you believe that lumber producers and manufac- 

 turers should be permitted, under government super- 

 vision, to control overproduction in times of business 

 depression? 



"Do you believe that the combination of lumber pro- 

 ducers and manufacturers under thorough government 

 supervision, would or would not work both for the good 

 of the industry and the public? 



"Mention briefly what are the principal changes needed 

 in methods of taxing forest lands, in order to encourage 

 protection and reproduction and deal fairly with the 

 private owner. 



"Is the insurance of standing timber practicable, and, 

 if so, should it be undertaken by private or government 

 agencies ? 



"If it is true that we are growing annually only about 

 one-third of the timber we use, and that our timber sup- 

 ply must be thus exhausted, do you favor restriction of 

 the export of forest products? 



"If forest land is to be bought by either nation or 

 states, should the purchase money be raised by long- 

 term serial bonds, the first series falling due far enough 

 in the future so that timber produced on the land pur- 

 chased may have opportunity to contribute toward paying 

 the serial bonds as they fall due?" 



HELP PREVENT FOREST FIRES 



PI'LE who visit the National Forests during the 

 coming summer can best observe the slogan "Help 

 Prevent Fires," by remembering the "Six Rules," issued 

 by the Federal Forest Service : 



(1) Matches. Be sure your match is out. Pinch it 

 before you throw it away. 



(2) Tobacco. Throw pipe ashes and cigar or cigar- 

 ette stumps in the dust of the road and stamp or pinch 



out the fire before leaving them. Don't throw them 

 into brush, leaves or needles. 



(3) Making camp. Build a small camp fire. Build 

 it in the open, not against a tree or log or near brush. 

 Scrape away the trash from all around it. 



(4) Leaving camp. Never leave a campfire, even for 

 a short time, without quenching it with water and then 

 covering it with earth. 



(5) Bonfires. Never build bonfires in windy weather 

 or where there is the slightest danger of their escaping 

 from control. Don't make them larger than you need. 



(6) Fighting fires. If you find a fire, try to put it 

 out. If you can't, get word of it to the nearest United 

 States forest ranger or State fire warden at once. 



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A TREE GAME 

 Which tree a kissing game could play?- 

 And which its father's name could say?- 

 Which shall we wear to keep us warm?- 

 And which do ships prefer in storm? 



Which shows what lovelorn maidens do? 



And in your hand which carry you? 



And which is it that the fruit men fear 



Which makes a call each seventeenth year?- 

 And from their pipes men shake which tree? 



Which tree does a bad boy hate to see? 



Which like a man bright, dapper, neat? 



Which is a girl both young and sweet? 



And on which do the children play 



With pail and shovel all the day? 



And to which tree shall we now turn 



For goods to wear and stuff to burn? 



And now divide you one tree more 



You've part of a dress and part of a door?- 

 Which tree is never seen alone? 



And which in church doth office hold? 1 



And which is a town in Ireland old? > 



For this one do not look so far 



Which tells what charming people are? 



The carpenter doth use which tree 



To make his wall as straight as can be? 



And to which tree do urchins call 



To show you shouldn't have looked at all? 



Which tree on calendars find you?- 



Which is a joke told times not few? 



And on our feet we'll wear which tree? 



And which our hero's crown shall be? : 



Another tree to find just try 



For fish and fuel for a fry? 



Now, last of all, what tree have we, 



The first an animal faithful indeed, 



The second our country's industrial need? 



(The answers will be published in the August issue of 



American Forestry.) 



