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sideration. Please remember that the above figures are based on present 

 prices in Massachusetts, and I am willing to leave it to your judgment 

 whether future prices are not likely to be even higher. 



What is true of the growth of white pine in the old Bay State is more 

 or less true of forestry conditions elsewhere. When we consider stumpage 

 prices, we must consider, also, that these conditions realized mean economic 

 employment of manual labor, teams and machinery, together with the 

 savings of transportation on raw material and the giving of employment 

 to rural sections during the winter, resulting in an all-year-round occupa- 

 tion. 



While Massachusetts does not typify every State it exemplifies that 

 forestry and forest products demand our consideration. 



The United States Forest Service has done and is doing splendid work 

 which is having desired results, and many States have well-organized de- 

 partments of State forestry, but it remains for this association, through 

 its present splendid organization, to become more elastic, welcoming the 

 necessary extension of its curriculum and investigations to include forestry. 



I believe that every State should have its State Forester, whose whole 

 time can be spent in determining and carrying out a definite State forest 

 policy. Fire protection and regulation, reforestation and general modern 

 forestry management need constant State super\'ision and encouragement. 



With a national and State organization perfected, the only thing lacking 

 is the great assistance that must come from educating the rank and file 

 of our people, who are to own and manage these forest lands. There are 

 no institutions to which this work more naturally falls than to our land 

 grant colleges and experiment stations. Already these institutions are 

 doing for our people everything possible in every other line of agriculture; 

 then wiiy should not forestry be included -^vith horticulture and agronomy? 

 The department of botany necessarily teaches the fundamentals of the 

 science, and with little additional equipment and assistance any botanical 

 department could give a course in forest botany. What is true of botany 

 is equally true of entomology, physics, plant pathology, etc. Again, I 

 firmly believe that forestry should be required in the agricultural courses 

 to a point sufficient for a comprehensive knowledge of it, allowing stu- 

 dents opportunities to specialize later on. 



The principles of forestry can readily be taught in our short courses and 

 elementary schools provided the fundamentals of botany, soils and nursery 

 work precede the same. But here, again, this is made possible only through 

 competent teachers, the product from the land grant college or similar 

 institution. 



Please do not understand me as an advocate of more forestry schools 

 which endeavor to educate the so-called technical forester, as I believe 

 we have probably enough of this class of institutions already, but that 

 there is a great and growing need for a general forestry education sufficient 

 to practicing modern methods, I am certain. 



In Massachusetts, again, I believe we have the ideal arrangement. The 

 State Forester has immediate charge of the shaping and carrying out of 



