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manage his farm woods according to forestry principles, or a 

 school wants to plant some idle land next spring, or the people 

 of the village want to make their idle watershed pay, some local 

 organization such as the County Farm Bureau, the Boy Scouts 

 or the local Chamber of Commerce must be interested and led 

 to cooperate. Cordial relations are not always easy to establish, 

 but careful study of any given community and prompt attention 

 to resulting correspondence will accomplish much in this direc- 

 tion. 



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Forestry stands coordinate with agriculture as a solution for 

 the problems involving the use of land. As such it offers an 

 unlimited field for the creation of public sentiment which when 

 crystallized into action is the mightiest force which man can 

 summon. This year the foresters from the college will probably 

 reach from 50,000 to 75,000 people in one way or another. I 

 know of one forester who, when it is all over, will scratch his 

 head and wonder just where the results will show. He will 

 probably be able to say that as a direct result 50,000 trees have 

 been planted by schools and land owners, thirty or forty people 

 have been sufficiently interested to join either the State or the 

 American Forestry Association, fifteen woodlot owners have 

 found a market for their dead and down timber, a dozen boy 

 scouts have passed their tests for a forestry merit badge, three 

 villages have passed shade tree ordinances and two clubs have 

 taken up forestry for their next year's study subject and then 

 as he goes home and saws up some of his six dollars a cord 

 fire-place wood which came from a piece of farm woods blown 

 down by a hard wind last summer, he will begin to figure the 

 further results. He will know that five or ten years from now 

 a couple of thousand citizens of New York State will be voting 

 right on the initiative measures calling upon the state to do 

 telling reforestation work on its idle lands, calling for tax re- 

 form that will allow the practice of forestry on private lands at 

 a larger profit. That some twenty or thirty farmers will then 

 be saying "By George, I've got to plant me some trees. Look 

 at the ones Neighbor Jones put out ten years ago. ' ' That the 



citizens of will be looking at their avenues of Oriental 



planes and calling their "City Dads" blessed for not planting 

 Carolina poplar. That the State Forestry Association has a 



