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farm planting. And most 01 those 25,000,000 were grovm in State ovmed 

 and operated nurseries. In a few cases the trees were grown in Forest 

 Service nurseries, but the U. S. Forest Service produces chiefly for our 

 ■--lational forest planting. 



According to what Mr. E, E, Carter, of the branch of Forest 

 management of the U. S, Forest Service says nat-ore will reforest the lands 

 nov; being cut-over on oxir national forests, boc£',use under the system of 

 cutting followed enovigh good seed trees and young growth are left stand- 

 ing to make that possible. That kind of careful cutting is also being 

 done on some private lands. But not much. There is practically no 

 tying in of plsmting v/ith cutting operations on the bulk of the privately 

 owned timberlands. 



Talking about 25,000,000 trees for farm planting, and all the 

 planting being done on burned over or cut-over lands in all our national 

 forests and in 41 States sounds big. And v/e are beginning to 'vake up. 

 But what we are doing seems snail compared to the way we are using timber. 



You ^.cnow, one of these end-to-end calculators has figured that a 

 whole year's production of American sawmills, some 33 to 44 billion 

 board feet — is enough to build a boardwo-lk 25 to 35 foot wide across 

 the abyses of space between the world and the moon. Of course, nobody's 

 figuring on bviilding that boardwalk; but that's a lot of lumber, 



AITITOUi'CUCTT ; Every other Friday Station presents these results 



of visits with Uncle Sara.'s IJaturalists, in the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, Remember the day and hour when our Wildsman will be back. 



