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Telegraph poles, fence posts, railway ties and cord wood represent 

 a few of the products of the farm wood-lot 129. 



The Town Forest movement is already gaining headway in America. 

 Its object is to furnish wood products free of transportation 

 charges 134 



Thousands of cities, towns and villages throughout the United States 

 already possess vacant land, poor farms, school property or 

 watershed reserves which could be put to work producing timber. . 136 



In Europe the town forest plan goes far toward a solution of the 

 unemployment problem. Could we not also adopt this remedy. . . 140 



The old type of lumber town and the new. To the left of the sawmill 

 shown in the composite picture above may be seen the temporary 

 shacks of an industry intending to deforest the land and then move 

 on. To the right may be seen the lumber town of today, relying 

 for its permanence upon a policy of continued reforestation 145 



Fattening at the expense of the young forest 150 



Pulpwood growing has passed the stage of ineffectual philanthropic 



effort. The wood supply must be made to last or the whole paper^, -- 



industry will fail 158 



"Blind and destructive competition — or cooperative regulation — ., 

 which?" 16S> 



A number of progressive states have already passed legislation 

 exempting, or assessing at a nominal value, such lands as are 

 being held for the production of a new wood crop 174 



It is the poorest sort of economy to grow trees at great expense and 

 then burn on the rubbish pile more than half of the wood content . . 177 



Lumbering is today a wasteful operation '^79 J 



A Forest Policy in six words — Keep out fire and plant trees 185/ 



Here is a cartoon taken from one of our great metropolitan dailies 

 showing how the newspapers of the country are conducting 

 educational work for a forest policy 187 « 



