TIMBER GROWING AND LOGGING PRACTICE 37 
in ties, props, or cordwood, could be cut from an acre of the poorest 
lands and 5,000 or 6,000 board feet from the best lands. 
The public should assist the private timberland owner in the pro- 
duction of full timber crops by working out control methods for 
insects and diseases and protecting the timberland owner against 
them by quarantines, by assisting in the forest-fire problem, by the 
production in public nurseries of small forest trees for distribution 
to private planters, by forest investigations which will be of gen- 
eral benefit to timber growers, and by employing State forest officers 
to assist private timberland owners in their problems- 
