PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 

 OUR DUTY TO PLANT TREES. 



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We of the Occident have received from the Creator "a goodly land, a 

 land flowing with milk and honey," and have been most extravagantly waste- 

 ful of our heritage. It is full time we were caring for the future of this land, 

 if we possess true patriotism, not that which bubbles over upon Fourth of 

 July and election days, but the patriotism which seeks the best development 

 and long continuance of this free American Republic. There is a duty for 

 every citizen, a duty for each State and an imperative duty devolving upon the 

 General Government. 



It should be the patriotic duty of every farmer and ranchman who has 

 no timber to plant several acres one-tenth his acreage is not too much. 



ARIZONA FOREST THE CANNON 



THE DUTY OF THE GOVERNMENT. 



The Government should withdraw from sale all timber land remaining, 

 selling from time to time a portion of the trees, but never permitting it to be 

 entirely cleared. A systematic fire protection should be maintained, not 

 only on reservations but throughout all timbered regions. All duties should 

 be removed from wood, manufactured or unmanufactured, entering the coun- 

 try from abroad. Especially should this be the case with wood pulp, so large 

 a quantity of which is daily consumed and which is so rapidly denuding 

 American forests. Every encouragement should be given to forest preserva- 

 tion. 



Restrictive legislation should be enacted by every timbered State to pre- 

 vent the entire denudation of non-agricultural lands. 



Bounties and reduction of taxes should be offered by individual States 

 upon lands planted and maintained in forests. 



