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and values of timber discussed in detail. The results 
in most States have been decidedly successful, for the 
wide-awake citizen of today, wherever he may live, 
knows what forestry 1s and what it 1s trying to do and 
the State forestry departments are receiving larger sums 
of money to carry on the work. 
Outside of water companies who find the practice of 
forestry adapted to their needs—for pure water is their 
prime object and forest cover secures this splendidly 
while tillage and fertilization put agriculture out of 
the question—and a few favored estate owners who 
have land they cannot otherwise use, the raising of 
timber by the private owner is not very feasible. This 
is particularly true of the small woodlot owner. The 
trouble is that the owner of twenty to thirty acres even 
if acquainted with the best method of handling his 
forest crop, cannot sell his products to advantage on 
account of the small quantity he has to sell. A method 
of helping him dispose of his material will cause him 
to regard forestry as worth while and already the 
Forest Service and one of the State colleges of forestry 
are working upon a scheme for helping the small wood 
land owner market his products at a profit. When it 
is realized that nearly 200,000,000 acres of wood land 
are owned in connection with farms, the necessity of 
making the practice of forestry desirable to this kind of 
owner is clearly seen. 
Another possibility of the future is communal forestry 
—the raising of timber by towns and villages. This type 
of forest is quite common in Hurope and it is no un- 
usual occurrence to find the town forest nearly if not 
quite paying the running expenses of some of the 
smaller villages in Germany. The Sihlwald, the city 
forest of Ziirich, Switzerland, has been owned by that 
