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industries concerned, or enlargement upon their vast 

 timber requirements, that the aggregate necessities of 

 the wooden package manufacturers as to timber supply 

 and use are truly enormous. 



In thinking of this subject of timber supply for these 

 great trades two questions have been chiefly prominent 

 in my mind. They are wholly practical and, in con- 

 junction with this serious question of forest preserva- 

 tion and supply, they must be adequately met and 

 answered. 



In the first place, it is evident that the industries to 

 which I have referred must have timber in large sup- 

 plies steadily; in even larger supplies than they are 

 using now. Where are these supplies to come from 

 in the future? Will the application of scientific prin- 

 ciples of forestry and of reforestation, enable these 

 industries to continue operation indefinitely upon the 

 great scale on which they are operating now, and upon 

 which timber is now being used by them? 



Secondly, how will the application of the principles 

 of scientific forestry effect the present manufacturers 

 of lumber of cooperage stock, and, what amounts to 

 the same thing, the manufacturers of wooden packages 

 of all sorts? Should some certain system of forest 

 preservation or reserve be put into obligatory opera- 

 tion, how would it effect the rights of present lumber 

 and cooperage stock manufacturers, and what effect, 

 if any, would it have upon their forest holdings or 

 those which they may in the future acquire ? 



These, I think, are the most practical points which 

 can be brought up at this meeting, and they are points 

 which must be most carefully considered, from all 

 points of view, before any substantial progress can be 

 made along forestry lines. 



I am sorry to say, because I believe that it ought 



