312 PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 



There will be an awakening after awhile, and the people who see the wealth 

 of the commonwealth slipping away so rapidly, and with no possibility of staying 

 the destruction or of replacing the mighty timbers, will rise in their wrath and in 

 their might and call the timber owners to a speedy accounting. Even now in the 

 Legislature are heard mutterings and threats against the men who control such 

 vast tracts of timber land and of their methods. 



It would be an act of wisdom for the lumbermen to make radical changes in 

 their system and begin a more rational method, with a view to the perpetuation 

 of the business, as the more conservative nations of Europe have practiced for 

 centuries. 



The author recognizes the necessity of making lumber, but insists that the 

 American Nation and the world will require lumber during the coming century 

 as well as it does at present, and the patriotic citizen should make diligent effort to 

 perpetuate the source of supply. 



