244 REPORT OF THE FORESTRY COMMITTEE 



The Chairman : I desire to call your attention to a problem which, I think, 

 has not been emphasized, and that is the question of the planting of trees and 

 protection of trees along our highways. We are doing now, in this country, an 

 immense amount of road building, but we are not paying enough attention to the 

 question of the shade trees and the roadside trees, which I am sure a good many 

 of you know something of the work in Europe along this line, and that is one 

 of the reasons why travel in Europe is so pleasant. 



I want to call your attention to the work of the National Highway Pro- 

 tective Society of New York, which is handling this problem, and also working to 

 a better protection of the trees, the prevention of defacement of trees by adver- 

 tising, by chipping trees 'and in other ways. I hope those who have to do with 

 State legislation. State foresters and others will not overlook this very important 

 problem, and that you will bear in mind that there is already an organization in 

 New York, with whom, perhaps, you would like to get in touch. That is the 

 National Highways Protective Society, whose address is 1, West 34th Street. 



I think we ought to have an opportunity for any further comments on the 

 report of this Sub-Committee on Lumbering. I felt on hearing the report, having 

 read part of it previously, that we ought to emphasize the necessity of continuing 

 the work of this committee, especially. The committee had to undertake a prob- 

 lem on which it is almost irnpossible for them to get very far the first year, but 

 they have succeeded in presenting the matter in a splendid way, and we are now 

 in a position to go forward with it if the committees are continued next year 

 and means are provided for doing the work. 



Mr. S. B. Elliott, of Pennsylvania: Mr. Chairman, we have to meet this 

 problem. The day of the large lumbering establishment is nigh closing. The 

 next two or three decades will show it absolutely out of the proposition. We 

 have to meet with the small manufacturer, the practical, portable mill man, 

 because when our virgin forests are cut off, we will have no large areas to support 

 a large industry. We have in our State a condition that probably the whole 

 eastern portion of the continent will experience. We have very few virgin 

 forests left, they will be cut ofi in ten years, and we have a large number of 

 establishments of portable mills, parties owning five, and sometimes ten, portable 

 mills cutting from 3,000 to 5,000 feet a day. They go around amongst the 

 farmers and induce many of them to have the woodlot cut off. We have to face 

 that proposition, and all the discussions we have had are applicable, in my judg- 

 ment, to the large manufacturer who is using from three to five and ten million 

 feet annually. I think we had better take up the proposition along that line in 

 our study hereafter to see what we can do to utilize the timber that is left in the 

 country, because they are wasting it, the slabs are wasted in the mills, the sides 

 are wasted and everthing wasted except what they can get to market. 



