254 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION May 



to report to the Government their be indefinitely enlarged. Let each 



holdings in order that the property member faithfully use this form and 



may be listed and cared for. Failure send in the names of all, whether few 



to report within a year subjects the or many, whom he may believe would 



forest to forfeiture. be willing to join the Association. 



The forested area of Korea is about And wherever possible let him use 



2,500,000 acres, which is only one-tenth his personal influence with these to 



of the land on which forests ought to encourage, or even urge them to join, 



be growing. Extensive timbered A few earnest, aggressive, working 



tracts remain in the Northern part of member-, soliciting memberships can 



the country on the waters of the Yalu very materially aid the progress of 



and Tumen &ivers, and lumber oper- the organization. The existence of the 



ations are carried on in the mountain present industrial stringency necessi- 



districts. But in the agricultural sec- tates increased activity on the part of 



tions of the country wood is very our friend-. Let the nominations 



scarce and the fuel problem is serious, pour in. 

 Coal and other mines have been opened 



by Americans, and one of the mo-t The announcement is 

 pressing needs is timber for n-e in and be^Probed niade that the Bureau of 

 about the mines. In that count -y. as Corporations intends to 

 elsewhere, large quantities of timber devote much attention during the corn- 

 are necessary in developing mining in- \ ear to the "Lumber Trust ;" and 

 property, and it is noteworthy that a the further -latement is -iven out that 

 country as backward industrially as the fireworks may be looked for at 

 Korea can put into practice the priiv almost any time now. For more than 

 ciple that the only sure way of get- a year past the Bureau has been con- 

 ting timber is to grow it. ducting preliminary investigations and 



searching into all the conditions of the 



Nominate ^ studv of tne s t atistics lumber business, and now active work, 

 Members 6 of 'the membership cam- it is said, is ready to be put under way. 

 paign of the American \Yithin the next few weeks the Bu- 

 Forestry Association shows that few, reau will put a large force of nu , n into 

 if any, lists are better for solicitation the fie](i to reach all the lumber re _ 

 purposes than the ist of nominees sent gions and the impor t an t trading cen- 

 m by members of the Association. ters of the countrVf and these meilj 

 These names are evidently carefully specially traincd for the work thev 

 collected and yield on the whole, e> win haye tQ d()j are tQ investigate 

 cellent results We again earnestly H ht Qn the mj the conditions of 

 urge our membership to aid the work the lumbering industrv and the various 

 of the Association by sending in names and multitudinous correlated indus- 

 of possible members for the use of this tr j eg 

 office. A large and growing member- 

 ship adds gr?atly to the prestige and In * he preliminary inquiry the Bu- 

 power of this organization. It fur- reau has already given a liberal lum- 

 nishes funds with which to prosecute berm S education to the men who will 

 the work, and it raises up a body of act as L s P ec r ial a ents ' and these en 

 friends everywhere to sow the seed ^ ave been for a year or more trained 

 from which the ultimate harvest may into the essentials, so that they wil 

 be reaped be a ^ e to a b ut their task m an 



On the advertising page opposite intelligent manner. 



the table of contents will be found a The coming report, which may^ re- 

 form entitled "NOMINATIONS FOR quire two or three years in compiling, 

 MEMBERSHIP." Post-office regulations will, it is believed, be the most volum- 

 curtail the blank space; nevertheless, inous and the most important contri- 

 by pasting on a sheet of paper it may bution to the literature of forestry 



