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control of the States or General Government, on account 

 of the expense likely to be incurred in their purchase and 

 management. But it is not at all probable that these 

 forests will become a burden to the people; but on the 

 contrary, if properly managed, may be self-supporting, 

 if nothing more. With proper management there should 

 be an income from the sale of timber of various kinds, 

 for when a tree has reached maturity, it ought to be 

 removed, else a decrease in value will ensue. Skillful 

 foresters will not only remove and dispose of valuable 

 timber at the proper time, but be constantly planting 

 trees in all available grounds throughout the forests 

 under their care. The inferior kinds will be removed to 

 giye room for the superior, and in this way the forests 

 may be improved and their intrinsic value enhanced very 

 materially from year to year. 



What kinds should be destroyed as well as planted, 

 depends so much upon soil, situation, climate, and local 

 demand, that no general rules can be given for such 

 operations, but must be left to the good judgment of the 

 forester himself, or his counsellors. They will also be 

 best able to decide whether it is better to plant young 

 trees or sow seeds, where a new growth of wood is desired. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



ESTABLISHING NEW FOEESTS. 



In the great treeless regions of the West — ^forests must 

 be raised if any are ever to adorn that part of our country, 

 but there are extensive areas on which it will be ex- 

 tremely difficult to make trees of any kind grow without 

 irrigation, and to do this some heretofore undiscovered 

 source from which a supply of water can be obtained 



