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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



the practice of forestry. Not less than $1,000,000 is 

 necessary and should be appropriated with a proviso that 

 States benefiting from the fund must expend an amount 

 equal to that received from the Federal Government. 



The Secretary of Agriculture should be authorized 

 to require reasonable standards in the disposition of slash- 

 ings and other measures necessary to prevent forest 

 devastation. Activities under -this law should not be 

 restricted to waters of navigable streams, but should 

 embrace any class of forest lands in the co-operating 

 States. 



Enlargement of the National Forests should be pro- 

 vided for by means of purchase of forest or cut-over 

 lands, with an annual appropriation of at least $2,000,000 

 for this purpose; by authorizing the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture to make land exchanges; and by reducing the 

 methods by which land now in Government ownership 

 mav be alienated. 



Progressive reforestation of denuded lands should be 

 provided for with a yearly sum beginning at $500,000 

 and increasing to $1,000,000 as soon as the work can be 

 organized on that scale. 



Legislation should be enacted providing for the study 

 of the effects of the existing tax methods and practices 

 upon forest devastation. 



A comprehensive survey of the forest resources of 

 the United States is needed, and an appropriation of 

 $3,000,000 should be provided for that purpose. 



The continuous study of the technical phases of re- 

 forestation in the principal timber regions should be pro- 

 vided for by appropriations which will make it possi- 

 ble to restore and enlarge the forest experiment stations 

 discontinued on account of lack of funds. 



have been a sapling fully 300 years ago. The tree which 

 took three centuries to mature, has been cut down by 

 children of 10 years, and its measurement shows it will 

 make about 800 pounds of newsprint paper. 



THOSE PAPER CLOTHES 



SECRETARY BURR, of the National Association ot 

 Box Manufacturers, says : 

 "Rather than wear wood pulp B. V. D.'s, a wall paper 

 shirt with cardboard front, a Chicago American vest 

 and kraft Prince Albert, I shall imbibe a wood alcohol 

 sundae and go to meet my Puritan ancestors in a wooden 

 kimona." American Lumberman. 



AMERICA'S YOUNGEST LUMBERJACKS 



A LMERON and Roland Berlanger, aged 11 and 9 

 ** years, respectively, are probably the youngest lumber- 

 jacks in the world. Working in the New York State 

 forest for their father during the summer, they do the 

 equivalent of one grown man's work each day. 



And their work, of cutting up a giant spruce into 

 pulpwood, tells why the cost of your daily newspaper 

 has been going up. 



Forestry students from the New York State College 

 of Forestry at Syracuse, on a field trip in the Adiron- 

 dacks, near Cranberry Lake, New York, measured the 

 tree. 



The spruce tree which these baby lumberjacks have 

 been cutting up into four foot lengths for pulpwood, 

 was found, by counting the rings of annual growth, to 



HARD AT WORK 



These youngsters fully appreciate the seriousness of the situation, and are 

 determined to do their part toward supplying the paper makers with 

 proper pulpwood. 



The work of the baby lumberjacks is one more evi- 

 dence of the manner in which the nation's raw material 

 supply for its paper mills is vanishing, and of the need 

 for restoring America's spruce forests if newspapers 

 are to continue to be. 



. WHY IS A RANGER? 



"Oh, a Ranger is in danger of congestion of the brain, 

 if he tries to keep all posted up on every latest plan. He 

 is but one lone mortal, at the crossing of the ways of a 

 thousand different theories, of a thousand different days. 

 He must be an expert woodsman and a guide and trapper, 

 too; and must know in all emergencies the proper thing 

 to do; how to fix a motor, mend a leg or rope a steer, 

 play a tune on the typewriter to please the diplomatic ear; 

 also how to run a survey, find a corner where it ain't, and, 

 in extra stressful moments, exercise restraint. He must 

 be a sawmill expert, cowboy and lumberjack, and an in- 

 formation bureau, plumb full of statistic fact. And he 

 must be trained in botany, know every growing plant so's 

 to educate the cattle what they can eat and can't. He 

 must know the birds and animals, the insects and the 

 fish, their every need and comfort, their every wile and 

 wish, including why a wood chuck would and why a dodo 

 don't, as well as why a whippoorwill and why a coyote 

 won't. All professions and sciences and every common 

 trade is the fund of useful knowledge for which he's 

 highly paid. And still there's something to it that holds 

 the Ranger on, when he tells himself and all his friends 

 that he would fain be gone." The Idaho Forester. 



