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districts of France and Germany. The American 

 family of chestnuts is a large one, and if it could be 

 demonstrated that some of the varieties are available 

 for tight-barrel work, it would have an excellent effect 

 in restricting the demand for oak, the supply of which 

 in any considerable bodies is now confined to Ken- 

 tucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas. The avail- 

 ability of tupelo or red gum for tight-barrel purposes, 

 is another work which the Bureau of Forestry could 

 undertake advantageously, as from a recent bulletin 

 issued by the department, it is learned that in the 

 district south of the Ohio River and east of the Texas 

 line, red gum stumpage alone equals that of all other 

 hardwoods combined. 



In seeking to prepare myself to point out for this 

 Association and the Bureau of Forestry where either 

 or both can possibly be of use to the industry which 

 constitutes my field of labor, I have called upon some 

 of the manufacturers of cooperage stock for their views 

 on this subject, and one of these, who is a close student 

 of forest conditions, and particularly well fitted by 

 nature and education to speak intelligently of cooper- 

 age needs from the standpoint of forestry, says that the 

 cooperage people who own timber, and timber owners 

 generally, should be educated to their necessities in 

 three ways : 



First. The need of an intelligent appreciation of the 

 value of timber. 



Second. The need of caring for the timber from a 

 physical standpoint. 



Third. The manner in which to accomplish these 

 ends. 



To begin with, the first subject means to teach the 

 public an intelligent appreciation of the value of timber. 

 It is an old maxim that "Wilful waste makes woeful 



