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owned by the Government. I would like to see our 

 Government own large boundaries of timber lands in 

 different sections of our country, and to give these for- 

 ests such care and attention as would demonstrate that 

 to give care and attention to standing timber will prove 

 as great a source of revenue as any other line of en- 

 deavor of which demonstration can be made. Let the 

 Association and the Bureau of Forestry acquaint the 

 public with the fact that each year timber is becoming 

 more valuable, and should have their attention in the 

 way of protection against the two destructive forces, 

 viz., forest fires and worms. Let the Government 

 make practical tests and demonstrations in their own 

 forests by piling up the great quantity of waste timber 

 and by cutting down and burning decaying timber, 

 thus destroying the germs of the worms as well as the 

 worms themselves ; and the other object in cleaning the 

 forest of this waste matter is to put safeguards around 

 to prevent forest fires. 



Another large exporter of cooperage stock and lum- 

 ber suggests that laws similar to those which now 

 exist in France and Germany, where replanting would 

 be practically compulsory, should be put on our statute 

 books. Hie believes that it is only a question of time 

 when it will be rendered necessary, by conditions, for 

 the United States Government to insist on replanting, 

 where owners cut over timber, and practically to adopt 

 the French and German law, or practically the same 

 forest laws that exist all over Continental Europe and 

 which are, undoubtedly, well known to the Bureau of 

 Forestry. 



Another believes that it would be a great advantage 

 to the country at large if forests of elm (elmus Ameri- 

 cana} and cottonwood (populus monilifera or populus 

 balsamfero or balm of Gilead) were planted under 



