In forestry, the original investment is, on the other 

 hand, increased by outlays made for railroads, roads, shutes, 

 flumes, farm-buildings, irrigation ditches, pasture fences, 

 telephone lines, etc., etc. In Western North Carolina it is 

 especially the systematic development of graded dirt roads, 

 that the business forester has at heart. 



. r, . In fact, the forestry advocate must invari- 

 ably be a friend of good roads. The tree 

 in the back woods, in spite of its size, has little value, 

 because it is beyond the reach of transportation. If the old 

 tree has little value, the small sapling tree has none at all, 

 and it is poor business to spend a penny for its preservation 

 or propagation. Only by improved means of transportation 

 I can increase the value of my trees, poles, saplings and 

 seedlings, and if I succeed, by spending $10,000 for roads, 

 in raising the value of the forests by $20,000, then those 

 $10,000 are certainly well invested. 



These roads, at the same time, make our woods accessi- 

 ble to the health-seeker, the sportsman and the tree lover. 

 You have plenty of forests in Kentucky, one-half of the state 

 still being tree-clad. But all the recreation obtainable from 

 the woods is wasted on you, as there are no roads bringing 

 the forests within your reach. How many of you see the 

 woods from a point of observation other than a car window? 

 Do you realize from personal experience what pleasure a 

 close contact with nature has in store for you ? 



Of course, the man of small means and the 

 owner of a small piece of forest cannot do 

 much in the line of permanent improvements. And that is 

 one of the reasons why, in my opinion (not shared by some 

 lights in American forestry) the small man is incapable of 

 practicing proper forestry. Only the wealthy, public and 

 private corporations and pre-eminently the state and federal 

 government are fit to embark in that forestry which we all 

 desire to obtain. 



The returns from a forest are partly tangible and meas- 

 ureable : f . i. timber ; tanbark ; turpentine ; and partly imma- 

 terial and latent : f . i. the influence, which the forest exerts 

 on public health, sport, navigation, floods, springs, and so 

 *on. 



