CHAPTER XX 



The Essence of Success 



Growing the forests at the market; the taxation 

 problem; public nurseries and experiment stations. 



Although regulative measures, such as proposed 

 in the preceding chapter, are of the greatest impor- 

 tance, they by no means solve the whole problem. 

 Let the forests of the west gradually dwindle to the 

 point where they are only sufficient to permanently 

 supply a small surplus above the local needs; let the 

 forests of the south be similarly employed, and if 

 we can in the meantime gradually bring back into 

 production the idle acres of the eastern and central 

 states near the chief points of wood consumption, 

 there will be enough for all. Our northeastern sec- 

 tion now produces perhaps ten or fifteen per cent. 

 of Its total wood consumption. Experts say it can 

 be made to yield at least sixty per cent. — and this 

 without destroying a single productive farm, or 

 taking away a single acre of land which could pro- 

 duce more revenue in other ways. 

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