132 OUR VANISHING FORESTS 



one of the most promising developments of recent 

 years. As the country grows larger and the inter- 

 change of all goods becomes more complicated, 

 local production and local marketing to reduce the 

 high cost of living assume greater and greater 

 importance. In fine, the farm wood crop idea 

 represents in America our nearest approach to a 

 permanent forest and is the fundamental theory 

 behind all the suggested methods to insure the wood 

 supply of the future. Change only the form of 

 ownership and the farm wood-crop becomes the 

 municipal wood-crop, the town wood-crop, the state 

 wood-crop, and the foundation of all our vast tim- 

 ber using industries. 



