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gigantic job, even for such a wonder-v/orker as that mythical lurnbcr- jack, 

 Paul Bunyan, who played such a big part in the cuttin^; over* Hov/ever, our 

 forc)sters claim it would pay to do it. 



Their rule for planting, is that the planting murt be econoriical 

 and must benefit the public. As they see it, forest planting is strictly 

 a question of the proper use of the land. The Forest Service recognizes 

 that in all its v/ork and applies the principles of conservation. 



You know, it is estiraated that some 2,000,000 acres of our national 



forest land need planting to restore them to productiveness But lot's 



go't a little closer to the floor, the forest floor, on this question of 

 pl:inting. 



You know the old saying, "G-reat oalcs from little acorns grow," 

 So do other great trees grov; from the little seed. Naturally, to plant 

 you need planting stock and to grow planting stock you need seed. 



The first step in planting is therefore to collect the socd. 

 That is not alv/ays as sim::lc as it sounds. As experienced foresters v/ill 

 tell you, tree seed crops are uncertain. The seed crop often fails. 



For that reason, our forest planters must lay by a good supply of 

 seed when v/e have a good seed year. However, there are so many kinds of 

 trees, growing under so many different climatic conditions, in this broad 

 liiZiC of ours, that there is always a crop of good seed somewhere, even 

 the some species may fail entirely. 



The recent crop of seed in the Pine Belt of the South was generally 

 very light. But enough good q-uality seed was gathered here and there 

 to r.eet the needs of the ntirseries. 



Good llorway pine seed was gathered near Cass Lake in the I^<e 

 States region. And better and cheaper seed have been insured by a new 

 seed extracting plant recently installed in the Chippewa National Forest 

 in Minnesota, 



This past year, there were fine crops of western yellow pine and 

 Jeffrey pine in California, A number of the unemployed seized the 

 opportunity to gather cones aiid sell them to the local Forest Service 

 nursery, 



Eorest Service employees dry the cones and extract the seeds in 

 the v/inter months for planting in the nursery beds in the spring. 



But the Forest Service is not alone in this work. Many States co- 

 operate with the Forest Service by maintaining forest tree nurseries, 

 v/here planting stock is grov/n for distribution by state foresters to 

 far.ncrs, and owners of private woodlands and timberlands, 



I said "many States", Tliero are now 41 States taking part in the 

 planting program. Last year about 25,000,000 trees were produced for 



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