

period of time we will know Just what will happen on other 

 sales areas and. will, therefore, know just vrhat trees it will 

 pay to leave and what to cut. In other words, wo will '.mow 

 Just how to out our timber to make money. 



We started another experiment this year. Its 

 purpose is to find out how long it will be before our ctands 

 of second growth are ready to cut and rhat timber we will 

 obtain at tho tine of cutting. Me are also endeavoring to 

 find out whether or not it will bo profitable to thin out 

 these stands in order to let the treos grow faster. Those 

 figures v/ill not be exact but we oan {jet figures that will 

 give us a start. 



Again we are studying reproduction in order to find 

 out Just how to mark and cut our timber in order to favor the 

 best species. 



Then there la planting. Everybody wonders why we 

 are planting. It costs us a whole lot of money and a lot of 

 herd work. Everybody thinks it is pretty nearly useless. 

 On our forest here wo hr.ve large burned areas. We have 

 manzanlta deserts and we have all kinds of soils. Those areas 

 ere not producing anything now nor rrf.ll they hereafter. We 

 must get timber there. TCo must find out whether we can plant 

 trees in the brush end succeed or whether it rill be more 

 profitable to wait until the timber cones in of its orn accord. 

 .Then we do find out what we oan do we will confine operations 

 to areas whore we know rhat we can do. 



So you will see that our rork Is for a definite 

 practical purpose. It is not merely of scientific interest, 

 but in tho" end will enable us to raeke forestry profitable. 

 All our improvements, all our fire patrol and lookout can 

 not ;;ive us a revenue without the timber to produce it. It 

 will do you no good to save the timber from burning up if 

 we are to throw it away afterwards. YJe must have soroe 

 definite, businesslike and correct plan of management which 

 in the end will return a financial revenue or else our 

 labors are loot. The farmer who does not rotate his crops 

 or keep improving the breed of his stock, no matter how hard 

 he works, will be rely make a living, but the scientific 

 farmer rho runs his ranch correctly is the one who goes to 

 town in his automobile. Let us, therefore, pay attention to 

 these things which are so necessary, let us find out what 

 crops to grow and how to grow them Instead of rushing heed- 

 lessly ahead and in the end wo will be riding in the auto and 

 not be plodding alon^ in the rut. We want to get to work and 

 find out what to do. 



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