28 STATUS OF rOEESTEY IN THE UI^ITED STATES. 



As widely scattered illustrations of what private forestry may do 

 and is beginning to do, these concrete examples are noteworthy. 

 But as progress toward the general practice of forestry by private 

 owners, their total amount is altogether insignificant.^ 

 Approved : 



James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 

 Washington, D. C, May 29, 1909. 



a Publications of the U. S. Department of Agriculture dealing with private forestry 

 are: Farmers' Bulletins 173 and 358, A Primer of Forestry; Forest Service Circular 

 25, Forestry and the Lumber Supply; Forest Service Circular 131, Practical Forestry 

 on a Spruce Tract in Maine. (See also the list in the Appendix under " Forest Man- 

 agement.") 

 [Cir. 167] 



