A PAPER ON FORESTRY. 
BY HON. JOHN D. LYMAN, EXETER, N. H. 
I intend in this paper to further, but briefly, illustrate and 
enforce a few fundamental principles of forestry of which I 
have before treated. I am encouraged to do this by the num- 
ber of groves which I see have been attended to in various and 
widely-separated sections of the state since this effort in behalf 
of foiestry was commenced; and by the invitations I receive to 
lecture upon the subject; and letters requesting copies of my 
paper upon forestry, published in the last report of the Board 
of Agriculture (my three hundred extra copies are exhausted) ; 
and of letters inquiring for information upon certain points. 
These letters come not only from this and other New Eng 
land states, but from the central and western. 
B. E. Fernow, chief of the division of forestry under our 
government, says that ‘‘the total annual product of wood 
material of all sorts consumed in the United States may be 
valued, in round numbers, at one billion ($1,000.000,000) dol- 
lars, or, roughly speaking, twenty-five billion (25,000,000,000) 
cubic feet of wood, the annual increase of five hundred million 
acres of forest in fair condition. This value exceeds ten times 
the value of our gold and silver output and three times the 
annual product of all our mineral and coal mines put together. 
It is three times the value of our wheat crop, exceeds the gross 
income of all the railroads and transportation companies, and 
would more than wipe out the remaining public debt of the 
United States.” (See Bulletin No. 5.) One of the most 
marked distinctions between the enlightened and the savage 
peoples is, that the latter depend almost entirely upon the spon- 
taneous, wild production of nature for their food and clothing, 
while'the former assist nature, and by this means increases the 
