The plan of operation should determine first of all where trees are 

 most needed, how many will be required to complete a definite amount of 

 effective planting, what species are best adapted to specific places, where 

 they may be secured, who will do the planting, and what the expense, if 

 any, will be. Then let the trees, whether wild or nursery grown, be secured 

 by one person in advance, thus saving time, expense and confusion. They 

 can be "heeled in" at convenient places and in perfect safety many days 

 in advance of Arbor Day. The teachers in the schools should be enlisted 

 and each pupil might well be given a certain part in the actual work of 

 planting. Every detail should be worked out in advance so that when Arbor 

 Day comes each person will know what part he has to perform. 



There is but one prerequisite to success in such a community observ- 

 ance of Arbor Day a leader who is willing to make the plans and see that 

 they are carried out. It is a worthy undertaking and need not be done on 

 so large a scale as to make its difficulties seem insurmountable. Leave 

 the greater effort for another year. Arbor Day comes and goes. Some 

 planting is done but much is left undone. If someone will take the lead 

 in each community and a combined effort is made to plant trees on Arbor 

 Day, we will be so pleased with the results that next year there will be 

 no lack of interest in Arbor Day observance. 



In conclusion, let us observe the spirit of Arbor Day in its broadest 

 conception, bearing in mind that tree planting is only a factor in jnaking 

 life full and complete. The building up of new resources and the husband- 

 ing of those nearing exhaustion, the saving of wild life, the prevention of 

 waste, and the improvement of our living conditions are thoughts which 

 should come to us in connection with Arbor Day. 



"Give fools their gold, and 



knaves their power; 

 Let fortune's bubbles rise 



and fall; 

 Who sows a field, or trains 



a flower, 

 Or plants a tree, is more than 



all." 



WHITTIER. 



Issued by the State Forester. 



Department of Forestry, Agricul- 

 tural and Mechanical College. Col- 

 lege Station, Texas. 

 -January, 1917. 



