PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 159 
OUR DUTY TO PLANT TREES. 
We of the Occident have received from the Creator “a goodly land,a 
land flowing with milk and honey,” and have been most extravagantly waste- 
ful of our heritage. It is full time we were caring for the future of this land, 
if we possess true patriotism, not that which bubbles over upon Fourth of 
July and election days, but the patriotism which seeks the best development 
and long continuance of this free American Republic. There is a duty for 
every citizen, a duty for each State and an imperative duty devolving upon the 
General Government. 
It should be the patriotic duty of every farmer and ranchman who has 
no timber to plant several acres—one-tenth his acreage is not too much. 
ARIZONA FOREST THE CANNON 
THE DUTY OF THE GOVERNMENT. 
The Government should withdraw from sale all timber land remaining, 
selling from time to time a portion of the trees, but never permitting it to be 
entirely cleared. A systematic fire protection should be maintained, not 
only on reservations but throughout all timbered regions. All duties should 
be removed from wood, manufactured or unmanufactured, entering the coun- 
try from abroad. Especially should this be the case with wood pulp, so large 
a quantity of which is daily consumed and which is so rapidly denuding 
American forests. Every encouragement should be given to forest preserva- 
tion. 
Restrictive legislation should be enacted by every timbered State to pre- 
vent the entire denudation of non-agricultural lands. 
Bounties and reduction of taxes should be offered by individual States 
upon lands planted and maintained in forests. 
