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RECREATION. 



basis for wood industries, which to the 

 farmer, settled on the really good farm 

 lands, give a home market worth much 

 more than the share of taxes which the 

 poor deluded settler on the poor lands 

 may be able to contribute. This presup- 

 poses, to be sure, a rational application 

 of the timber reserve policy, and that only 

 truly non-agricultural lands are taken 

 and devoted to timber production. It is 

 evident that a large amount of education 

 as to the true meaning of forestry and of 

 forest reservation policy is still necessary 

 before they will be thoroughly appre- 

 ciated. Only the broad minded, the far 

 seeing, the altruistic, can comprehend that 

 these things mean provision for the fu- 

 ture at the least sacrifice to the present 

 community. 



SIMPLE FACTS OF FORESTRY. 



Forestry in the widest sense means the 

 rational treatment of forests as such. It 

 may be rational to cut and remove the 

 forest and use the land for agriculture or 

 other purposes, but that is not forestry, 

 for forestry presupposes the continuance 

 as forest. In the narrower sense forestry 

 designates the art and business of produc- 

 ing wood crops, just as agriculture is the 

 art and business of producing food crops. 

 Nature alone, left to herself, produces wood 

 crops, but she does so at great expense of 

 space and time. She produces weeds and 

 undesirable trees as readily as valuable 

 ones. She does not care whether the 

 crop becomes available in ioo or 1,000 

 years; whether clear timber or knotty 

 timber is the result. 'It is, then, the eco- 

 nomic production of wood crops; the 

 largest quantity of the best quality on the 

 smallest space in the shortest time, which 

 the forester attempts. 



To produce a wood crop space is 

 needed and light. To secure, therefore, 

 an economic wood crop, nature's uneco- 

 nomic crop must first be removed. The 

 forester is a harvester as well as a pro- 

 ducer. There are desirable, useful kinds 

 of trees, and others less useful, or use- 

 less — tree weeds. The lumberman har- 

 vests only the desirable and leaves the 

 undesirable, the weeds, in possession of 

 the ground. The forester, if he wishes to 

 reproduce the desirable, must first reduce 

 the weeds. He must, therefore, incur the 

 expense of weeding before he can expect 

 to produce his crop. Forestry means 

 present outlay for future revenue. 



PRESERVING SCENERY 

 Although forestry has directly little to 

 do with the attempts at preserving fine 

 scenery and objects of interest, such at- 

 tempts do appeal, nevertheless, most 

 strongly to the forester, who is indirectly 

 engaged in doing the same thing, namely, 



preserving for future generations sacis - 

 factory conditions. Every forester and 

 forest lover will therefore rejoice to hear 

 that on March 15 the Governor of Cali- 

 fornia signed a bill appropriating $250,000 

 to buy the big basin in the Santa Cruz 

 mountains in which some of the big red- 

 woods are located. This legislation was 

 secured through the efforts of the Sem- 

 pervivens Club, and places within easy 

 access of San Francisco a piece of virgin 

 woodland which will exhibit to future 

 generations the marvelous development 

 of these congeners of the Big Trees. 



A similar movement toward preserv- 

 ing scenery has taken practical shape in 

 the East. May 6th Governor Odell, of 

 New York, signed the bill which appro- 

 priates the means for saving the palisades 

 along the Hudson from further deface- 

 ment by the quarrymen. In co-operation 

 with the State of New Jersey this bit of 

 striking river front just out of the city of 

 New York is to be set aside as a park. 



The New York State Forest, Fish and 

 Game Commission consists of 3 members, 

 2 of whom are to drop out in 1903, leav- 

 ing a single commissioner. The Lieu- 

 tenant Governor and Mr. Charles E. Bab- 

 cock, of the former commission, are the 

 temporary officers. Mr. De Witt C. Mid- 

 dleton, of Watertown, also a member of 

 the former commission, is the permanent 

 officer, whose term of office expires in 

 1905. 



How do you spend your summer? Do 

 you camp out, take a canoeing trip, a 

 yachting cruise, live on a houseboat, have 

 a cottage by the sea or a cabin in the 

 mountains? If any of these joys is yours, 

 complete it by adding to your outfit a 

 Primus oil stove. You can get one free 

 of cost by sending me 4 yearly subscrip- 

 tions to Recreation at $1 each. The Pri- 

 mus stove is a perfect cooker and heater, 

 with one of these in your outfit you can 

 defy many discomforts that prevail in 

 outdoor life without one. Send me the 

 club and let me give you a chance to try 

 a Primus. 



If you would like a $10 Wizard camera 

 send me 5 yearly subscriptions and I will 

 have the camera shipped you direct from 

 factory. This is one of the most remark- 

 able premium offers I have ever made. 

 Naturally it will only be open a short time. 

 If you wish to avail yourself of it, please 

 get up your club at once. I have never 

 before given one of these cameras for less 

 than 9 subscriptions, 



