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products of the world. The need is plain. With every passing year 

 it becomes more urgent, for timber is the slowest of all crops to 

 mature, and the mills are cutting four trees for every one restored. 



The task is great. Yet the obstacles are not insurmountable. On 

 the other hand, there is not much latitude of choice, for America 

 must have timber, and the only way to get the amount needed is to 

 grow it. Our timber supply and our wheat supply stand in the same 

 category. There is no doubt that whatever may be necessary to 

 insure the continued growing of wheat will be done. The restoration 

 of American forests awaits only the impulse of a clean-cut public 

 conviction that timber is essential and that a new crop must be grown. 



