interesting the newspapers, by forming a Kentucky forestry 

 association — we must level the road to forestry as a business. 



• 1 H^ IT Now you will ask me : "How can we 



establish forestry as a business?" 

 You have plenty of good business men in Louisville, and 

 they will tell you, that any business requires a certain amount 

 of capital, in most cases the more of it the better. You 

 cannot run a livery stable on one horse, or a dairy on one 

 cow, nor can you imagine a successful railroad to be only 

 two or three miles long. 



Similarly, commercial forestry requires large holdings, 

 — the larger the better. In such large holdings every foot 

 of ground must be used for that production, under which it 

 pays best : bottomland for agriculture ; bare ridges for 

 pasture ; cold northern slopes for tree growth. The famous 

 Black-forest in southern Germany is far from being a 

 wilderness. It was an impenetrable wilderness three hun^ 

 dred years ago. Now it is dotted with farms and villages 

 traversed by a splendid system of stone roads. 



BLACK-FOREST PICTURES 



Similarly, at Biltmore, N. C, on George Vanderbilt's 

 estate, I try hard to use every resource of the soil to best 

 advantage. The old and mature trees are removed and 

 made into money, making room for an offspring of healthy 

 second growth. 



PICTURES BILTMORE CUTTINGS 



. Only in exceptional cases artificial planting 

 of trees is resorted to. Nature has regen- 

 erated the forest periodically ever since the creation, and 

 nature is not apt to stop work in the twentieth century. 

 Thus I allow nature to re-forest the lumbered land, increas- 

 ing only the chances for that set of conditions, which gives 

 rise to a tree. 



BAVARIAN PICTURES. 



Still, near Asheville, N. C, where the stumpage price of 

 wood is over a dollar per cord, and where many an aban- 

 doned field or a previously devastated wood lot has been put 

 in my charge, I am annually engaged in artificial reforesta- 

 tion. 



