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for turpentine is confined to those trees which will 

 within the next two years be cut for sawlogs, damage 

 to the timber is improbable, and the question of the 

 advisability of boxing for turpentine is reduced to 

 one of present profits. Whether the revenue derived 

 from turpentine or from the lease of boxing rights 

 exceeds the loss from the deterioration of the timber 

 before it can be cut is a question which, in my judg- 

 ment, depends very largely upon the promptness with 

 which logging can be made to follow the orcharding. 



In conclusion I want to say a word about the 

 methods of the Bureau of Forestry as I know them 

 on the ground, and regarding, from my own expe- 

 rience, the opportunity which cooperative work with 

 that Bureau offers to lumbermen. The working plan 

 for our lands, which, I am told, you will soon have 

 an opportunity to see in the form of a bulletin of the 

 Bureau of Forestry, has pleased me greatly. It has 

 taken up in a direct and practical way the business 

 considerations which the best management of the forest 

 presents. 



I am free to confess that I turned to forestry with 

 some doubts. I was not entirely sure that its policy, 

 admirable in the abstract, concerns itself sufficiently 

 with business considerations to be of real use to the 

 actual operator, but in taking up, on our own ground, 

 the forest problems which confronted us, the Bureau 

 of Forestry has demonstrated, on our tract at lea^t, 

 the eminently practical character of its work. 



I have been struck for a long time, and with in- 

 creasing force, with the fact that the lumber industry 

 deserves recognition in the scientific work of the Gov- 

 ernment just as much as the work of the farmer and 

 the stockman. We lumberman represent as a whole 

 the fourth greatest industry of the United States, and 



