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under management as the result of working plans prepared by the 

 Bureau, or of the 370 planting plans which the Bureau has prepared 

 for lands in 52 States and Territories. * * * The area in wood- 

 lots and timber tracts in this country is approximately 500 million 

 acres. It is from them that our future timber supplj^ must chiefly 

 come, and the inauguration of better methods in their management is 

 thus a national duty, until the private forester is present in sufficient 

 numbers to carry on the work. When that time comes the Bureau 

 Avill step aside. 



B. E. FERlSrOW, 



Forest Engineer. 



* * * Wood prices, even in the United States, have been rising 

 continuously for the last seventy years, at the rate of about 1^ per 

 cent a year. * * * Jn the last forty years the industrial nations 

 of the earth, such as England, France, and Germany, have increased 

 the wood consumption to a marvelous extent, not according to the 

 number of their population, but an increased per capita consumption. 

 This is a remarkable statement, when Ave know that stone, iron, and 

 steel have taken the place of wood as building material, and that coal 

 has replaced it as fuel. A supply for the future is one of the requi- 

 sites of our modern civilization. 



C. A. SCHENCK, 



Forester to the Biltmore Estate. 



* * * I am a lumberman, and as a lumberman I cut trees. 

 * * * At the same time I am a forester, and as a forester I raise 

 trees. * * * ^^e frequently are of the opinion that these little 

 trees, the second growth, are really the best money-makers. I think 

 we might as well change our minds. * * * Stumpage prices are 

 increasing very rapidly in this country; the big tree is the best money- 

 maker. In 1895 and 1896 I sold many a fine white oak at 50 cents per 

 thousand board feet; I wish I could replace them. I would gladly 

 put them back into the woods at $4 per thousand, because they are 

 worth $5. In 1898 I got for some trees $1.25 per thousand ; in 1903 

 I received $2.50 for the same kind, and last year I found a gentleman 

 who was willing to give me as much as $8 per thousand for them. 



J. T. ROTHROCK, 



Of tlie Pennsylvania Forest Reservation Commission. 



* * * To-day Pennsylvania is in actual, or prospective, posses- 

 sion of about 700,000 acres of land, which has been purchased for the 

 specific purpose of creating forest reservations, and thus to restore a 

 better proportion between the wooded and the cleared areas of the 



