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inevitable, in my judgment, that there will be an exercise of a greater measure 

 of direction by 'the public over private forests than is now the case. I look 

 for Hie time 'when the states will designate certain lands as Protection 

 Forests within which the cuttings must be made with a view to the continuance 



of the forest. 



It is commonly said by land owners that forestry is not practical. This 

 is usually due to the fact that they do not fully appreciate just what forestry 

 requires and what would be gained by it. As a matter of fact, the practice 

 of forestry would in a very large number of cases not only be practical, but 

 wuiild result in a considerably increased return to the owners. The time has 

 cnine when lumbermen should make an actual beginning of forestry on their 

 own lands, even if the first work is purely experimental. 



ACTION BY THE IRRIGATION CONGRESS 



CAKING cognizance of the importance of forest preservation, the National 

 Irrigation Congress, which met in Chicago, devoted a portion of its 

 resolutions to the subject, as follows: 



Recognizing the close natural connection between forests and stream-flow, 

 especially throughout the irrigable region, we heartily commend the Federal 

 forest policy and favor its continuance and extension ; and we reaffirm our full 

 confidence in the high integrity and exceptional intelligence of the past and 

 present officers of the United States Forest Service. 



Approving the progressive withdrawal of lands suitable for homesteads 

 from the National forests, we hold that such withdrawals should be made 

 in the light of expert investigation showing that the agricultural value of 

 such lands is paramount to their value both for forest production and for 

 stream protection. 



We favor the enactment by all states of laws to regulate the cutting of 

 timber on State and private lands, and laws reforming taxation on timber 

 lands, cut-over lands, and reforested lands, to the end that the perpetuity of 

 the forests may be assured and the flow of the streams be preserved. 



We approve, and direct our Senators and Representatives in the Federal 

 Congress to support, the Burke Bill (H. R. 14085) reappropriatmg and 

 rendering available the lapsed portion of the sum appropriated to provide for 

 the Appalachian and White Mountain Forest Reserves in accordance with 

 previous recommendations of the National Irrigation Congress. 



The India Forester, published at Dahra Dun, U. P., India, impressed with 

 tin' article on fighting forest fires in a recent number of American Forestry 

 imhlixhes a goodly portion of it, with special reference to the value of the 

 telephone in giving warning of forest fires. 



One of the American consuls in Europe reports that with the exception 

 of the forests of the Mississippi Valley and those of the Asiatic Caucasus the 

 oak forests of Slavonia are without equal. 



