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Another thing I desire to call attention to, and on 

 this point I shall present a resolution when the time 

 comes. It is the disastrous and alarming destruction 

 of our forest for the purpose of making paper. We 

 must all have our reading matter, and the problem of 

 supplying wood pulp for the making of paper is a 

 serious one. I do not know whether it is to be taken 

 up in this Congress or not, but it certainly should be 

 considered. I want you to ask Congress to offer a 

 very generous reward to any person who will devise 

 or discover a method of making pulp, and from that 

 paper, from any product that farmers can raise on 

 their farms every year. It seems to me this is a very 

 important subject for this Congress to consider. 



Address by Mr. Charles L. Pack 



""THERE is little I can say to edify this Congress. 

 I am simply a plain owner of trees, of forest 

 lands in different parts of the country. I have taken 

 great interest in this subject for many years, and I 

 may say also that I have learned a great deal this week 

 in Washington. I have studied the commercial side 

 of forestry at home and abroad, and I have come to 

 believe that the man who cuts down a tree should plant 

 or cultivate or care for two new ones. Our economic 

 laws should make it an inducement for him to do so. 

 We must do something to catch up, as we have been 

 very tardy in applying what experience teaches on 

 this subject. The problem of private forestry is a 

 great one. I am caring for, at present, several thou- 

 sand acres of small timber in different parts of the 

 country, but I am faced with the taxation question; 



