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of expense, and make observations, which are to be forwarded to 

 the office of the secretary, where a permanent record of the plant- 

 ing will be kept. If you expect to do any forest planting it will 

 l^ay you to write to the State Forester at Indianapolis for his plan 

 of cooperation. 



In this work the planter is free to do as he pleases. He plants 

 the kind of trees he chooses and manages the way he thinks best. 

 He gets the advice of experts without cost. At present the board 

 expects to limit the number of cooperative plantings to 100, so 

 do not delay in taking advantage of this offer. 



Issued January 30, 1911. 



[Bulletin No. 18— Sheet One.] 

 TO WHAT EXTENT SHOULD INDIANA BE REFORESTED ? 



The uses of the forest are numerous. Besides yielding many 

 useful and necessary articles, such as turpentine, resin, tar, tim- 

 ber for fuel and lumber for building purposes, the forest is a soil 

 former, a sod improver, a soil fixer, a flood preventer, a conserva- 

 tor of moisture, a wind break, a beautifier of the earth, and a sani- 

 tary agent; as it is one of the greatest protectors of mankind, its 

 presence is most necessary to our well-being. 



In Indiana the protection which the forest gives is of far 

 greater importance than the products which it yields. They can 

 easily be brought into the State from some of the regions of the 

 United States which are unfit for agricultural purposes but which 

 are well-suited to the needs of the forest. But the protection which 

 the forest renders cannot be thus transferred. 



Unlike many States, Indiana has no mountains, and very few 

 rivers which need the protection of the tree. In this State the 

 chief aim of reforestation is to establish small forests throughout 

 the State, the purpose of which is not to produce lumber, but to 

 protect the people living about it by acting as a wind-break or 

 flood preventer. 



As has been said before, in many States the main purpose of 

 reforestation in general is to provide future supply of timber, but 

 in Indiana this is not the case. This State is well adapted to agri- 

 cultural pursuits, as it lies in one of the most fertile farming dis- 

 tricts in the world. It would seem almost wasteful to devote such 

 l:ind to forests when there are so many acres in the United States 

 which are unfit for farming purposes but capable of producing 



