should be raised on 20 and sell at European 
prices, cannot pay taxes. 
This also applies to every Chamber of Com¬ 
merce, Women’s Rotary, Kiwanis, Izaak Wal¬ 
ton League, Lion, Eagle and other clubs who 
should assist in preventing soil erosion on 
farms still producing crops in the county they 
live in., Men under 40- please remember this. 
Those who do not believe in planting trees 
—and there are millions—should read “WILL 
OUR CIVILIZATION SURVIVE” in RE¬ 
VIEW OF REVIEWS and then visit the 
farming districts of Mississippi where on May 
5, 1932, 74 sheriffs sold 39,667 farms in one 
day for non-payment of taxes and hear them 
tell about the money their fathers made from 
the sale of timber and they will wonder why 
business men did not advise the yearly 
planting of at least 10 cents worth of south¬ 
ern Pine tree seed which would have brought 
in a larger income every year 
In 1926, after a trip through the Far East 
where I saw so much poverty in farming dis¬ 
tricts, I commenced to raise trees from seed. 
In 1928, I decided to assist our state forester 
reforest our 3 million acres of idle land and 
have been at it ever since. 
In the spring of 1929, through the assist¬ 
ance of L. L. Caldwell, Supt. of Hammond 
Schools, pupils planted over 2,000,000 Pine 
and Spruce seed. In 1930, over 8 million were 
furnished to pupils in the county; in 1931, 
they planted more walnuts part furnished by 
business men of Hammond, than all state 
nurseries in the U- S. combined planted that 
year and pupils in the State planted over 
400,000. 
Last spring Joseph Myers, President of the 
Calumet State Bank, bought 20,000 Pine and 
Spruce trees for Hammond schools. 
J. H. Baldwin, Principal of the Washington 
School, Hammond, talked to pupils on the 
necessity of planting trees so they would have 
lumber when they grow up and collected 
enough pennies to buy 2400 trees. 
Norman E. Amos of Connersville, Indiana, 
collected enough pennies to buy a bale of trees 
for the students in his Biology class. Every 
pupil in this country will buy trees if given 
an opportunity, and as they grow older they 
will understand why and plant more. 
The following from the DES MOINES SUN¬ 
DAY REGISTER, Oct. 29, 1933, demonstrates 
what a farmer can do: Farmer Edwin Swank, 
Oakville, Iowa, sold 80 walnut trees for $2000 
which he planted when a boy for preventing 
soil erosion. Part of these logs will go to 
Germany. Business men in his town will get 
this money. See that farmers in your county 
plant trees. 
PLEASE TAKE THIS UP WITH YOUR 
CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE, ROTARY, 
KIWANIS AND OTHER CLUBS AND BUY 
$5 OR $10 WORTH OF TREES FOR THE 
PUPILS IN YOUR SCHOOLS. IT WILL 
MEAN SO MUCH TO THEM AND THEY 
WILL REMEMBER AND TALK ABOUT 
YOU FOR YEARS AFTER YOU ARE GONE. 
J. P. Johnson, Minden, Mo., sold 70 walnut 
trees recently for $1500- The City of Attica 
sold 16 for $1000. $100,000 was refused for 
an 80 acre tract near Lafayette. 
What an opportunity for farm boys who can 
look ahead, and what an opportunity for a 
man to invest $1,000 where it will eventually 
bring back $75,000. Over 200 walnut trees, 
which cost only $12 per 1000, CAN BE 
GROWN ON ONE ACRE. 
In many states taxes on land planted with 
trees are reduced to about 3 cents an acre. In 
some states no tax until the trees are sold. 
This saving on taxes will pay for the ground 
and all expenses for making absolutely worth¬ 
less land one of the greatest assets. 
The NATIONAL NUT NEWS, Chicago, 
says the nuts from each tree will sell to candy 
factories for $6 and over yearly. 
TAKE CHRISTMAS TREES: Farmers 
should know we import 5 million from Canada 
yearly which can be raised on the same land, 
walnut, maple and other trees are growing 
on and bring in several hundred dollars per 
acre. Government bulletins report a farmer 
in Pennsylvania has averaged $5400 yearly 
for the last 7 years. 
5000 TREES UP TO 20 INCHES HIGH, 
COSTING $10 PER 1000, WILL GROW ON 
ONE ACRE. If this number is bought every 
year and planted in rows where required to 
prevent soil erosion and every time a tree is 
cut another is planted in its place, it will 
mean a perpetual income. 
ONE DOLLARS WORTH OF PINE AND 
SPRUCE EVERGREEN TREE SEED, IF 
INSTRUCTIONS ARE FOLLOWED, 
SHOULD PRODUCE OVER 10 000 FIRST- 
QUALITY CHRISTMAS TREES. The bal¬ 
ance if planted 4 ft. apart will make first- 
quality lumber free from limbs and knots. 
The Department of Commerce give over 
4000 uses for wood. 
Take artificial silk : In 1911 we made 320,000' 
pounds. 1931—144,000,000 pounds with a pay¬ 
roll of $44,704,000. 
The new method of making print paper from 
southern pine just discovered will require 
600,000 acres of timber and save millions of 
dollars sent to Norway, Sweden, Russia and 
Canada for pulpwood.If we only had the trees. 
How many know the CHICAGO TRIBUNE 
requires 400 acres of trees weekly ? The Hearst 
Syndicate, other magazines and newspapers 
require millions of tons which will be made 
here when people learn trees grow themselves 
if the seed is put in the ground. 
In 1810 each person here used one pound 
of paper. Today, over 200 pounds. 
We use 5 million cedar telegraph poles 
yearly which take 150 years to grow. 
Railroads use more wood than the people 
did in 1860. 
Indiana had 18 million acres of virgin hard¬ 
wood forests. Today we have 1000 acres of 
virgin timber and 3,000,000 acres of the finest 
timber-growing land which can be bought for 
as low as $4 an acre. 
For instance take Brown Township, in Mar¬ 
tin County, now on the state aid list, total 
area 23,048 acres, has over 7,000 acres of 
abandoned farms. All caused by soil erosion. 
Little trees would have prevented it. 
The total state tax collected in Brown 
Township for 1925-26 was $861; 1928-29 it 
was $655.92; from August, 1925 to December 
1929, $3,394.67. To operate their schools other 
counties had to advance $39,492.05. This is 
not all, the deficit for teachers’ salaries was 
$12,000, or a total of $51,492.05. 
When State Forester R. F^Wilcox took 
hold of the department, his first planting in 
1926 was 134,000 trees. This year 3 million 
were planted and 2 million walnuts. No fores¬ 
ter works more hours 7 days a week or accom¬ 
plished more. (Government Report and AM¬ 
ERICAN TREE ALMANAC, 1932). 35 mill¬ 
ion will be planted next year. 
PLEASE READ CAREFUL — IT MAY 
SURPRISE THOSE WHO CRITICIZE 
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S PROGRAM 
TO KNOW THAT ALL OF THE STANDING 
PINE EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER 
WOULD NOT SUPPLY THIS COUNTRY 
WITH LUMBER FOR ONE YEAR AND 
THAT HALF OF ALL THE STANDING 
TIMBER IN THE U. S. IN 1900 HAS BEEN 
CUT SINCE THAT TIME. (SENATE RESO¬ 
LUTION 175, 73rd CONGRESS). 
In 1900 we had 15-503,000 pupils; today, 
27 million. 
Little Japan, smaller than California, plants 
7 times and Germany 27 times more trees 
than we do. Pupils in foreign countries are 
taught to plant trees. 
Some writers claim the 925 billion ft. on the 
Pacific Coast and 125 billion in the south will 
supply us and for export for 50 to 75 years 
when much of this timber is where it would 
cost more to get the logs to the mill than the 
lumber is worth. Again, more than half of our 
lumber cut is used east of the Mississippi 
where every board from the Pacific Coast 
carries a freight charge of 60% or over. We 
use about 38 billion ft. yearly. So how can 
these few trees supply us and for export for 
50 to 75 years ? 
We have about 86 billion ft. in Alaska, 74% 
Hemlock. Having traveled over the 3 rail¬ 
roads and down the Yukon to the Arctic Circle 
I saw millions of trees on land frozen over 100 
ft. deep that will never be cut. 
Many say our farmers who own most of 
the standing timber and have received as 
much as $394,000,000 for logs in a single year 
are to blame for the condition their farms are 
in, which no doubt is true, and the CHANCES 
ARE NOT ONE IN 5000 FARMERS PLANT¬ 
ED A TREE WHEN ONE WAS CUT AS 
THEY HAVE IN EUROPE since they found 
themselves in the condition this country will 
eventually be in with our rundown farms un¬ 
less business men WHO MUST EVENTUAL¬ 
LY PROVIDE FOR THESE PEOPLE decide 
to prevent it by seeing that trees are planted 
on their land where required. 
In England and Europe in the 16th century 
after their timber disappeared no man was 
allowed to marry until he had planted so 
many trees. 
Our 6,400,000 farmers use 2000 ft. of lum¬ 
ber on an average yearly which means throw¬ 
ing away $100,000,000 for freight. A few 
acres of trees on each farm in 50 years could 
be sawed into lumber with portable mills and 
delivered where wanted for % what it costs 
today and it will double in 25 years. 
Farmers buy fence posts they could raise 
for 25 cents per 100- 
In 1879 Pine stumpage in Wisconsin sold 
for 50 cents per 1000 ft. In Minnesota, in 
1880, it sold as low as 10 cents. At that time 
they esitmated our timber would last 1000 
years. They now estimate it will take 1500 
years to reforest the 30 million acres of idle 
and abandoned forest land in Michigan, Wis¬ 
consin and Minnesota. 
Michigan from 1850 to 1910 sold over 100 
billion ft. of lumber. 
The freight bill on lumber shipped into the 
state for one year was $18,000,000. 
It required 3 years to convince the Ham¬ 
mond Park Board that $30 worth of walnuts 
would produce more beautiful trees for shade 
and millions of walnuts for the kiddies to 
crack in years to come than they could buy 
in 10 years from now for $30,000. These trees 
are now 6 ft. high and will grow 2 ft. a year. 
If the business men of this country could see 
these thousands of beautiful trees, they cer¬ 
tainly would collect enough money from mem¬ 
bers of Chambers of Commerce and clubs to 
buy 500 or 1000 for their parks. 
It is deplorable with conditions in many 
farming sections as bad as they are in India 
and Egypt when you consider millions say, 
“They will get along some way when the 
trees are gone.” 
If I could take these men through countries 
of Europe where they could see man-made 
forests and farms producing practically as 
much as they did 1000 years ago, they would 
think different. 
Men who havp visited all parts of the world 
must have known that people who have been 
asleep for centuries would wake up sometime 
and, like the Japanese, when they get started 
you can’t hold them back. 
It is the same with manufacturing. When 
President Roosevelt, at the Manhattan Metro¬ 
politan Club, said: “After every wheel is 
turning and every man is in his place, there 
will be 5 million unemployed,” he knew as 
every man should that the millions who left 
the farms for high wages and short hours 
turning out more goods in what were our 
great ammunition factories to be sold on the 
installment plan could not last. 
Today these plants would produce more 
goods in 4 months than we can use in one 
year and thousands who will be unable to 
secure employment will be happier on a piece 
of land where they can make a living while 
waiting for business to pick up, as we did 
after the Depression of 1893. 
Before the World War I visited the manu¬ 
facturing districts, of Europe yearly where T 
bought goods- When the War was over Euro¬ 
pean manufacturers had no raw material. Most 
of their machinery, which was operated night 
and day making ammunition, was ruined, but 
on my last trip I found modern plants oper¬ 
ated by workmen who get very small gay. 
Before I retired in 1914, I had a plant in 
Hammond, still shipping goods to every coun¬ 
try—where one man produced more goods in 
one day than 100 men did when I worked in 
the shops 50 years ago. 
In 1915 all European shipments for this 
country were cut off and as the Betz Company 
had many war orders, I decided to help them 
out in 1916 and 1917 by manufacturing in 
Japan what they required. At that time Japa¬ 
nese manufacturers knew little about making 
goods with machinery but, believe me, when 
I was there in 1926, plants in every line were 
operating long hours with cheap labor and the 
latest equipment. 
After leaving Japan, I visited China, Philip¬ 
pines, Malay States, Burma, India, Palestine 
and Egypt where laborers earn as low as $35 
a year. College gradirates, $5 a month. 
Millions of these people never saw what you 
would call a tree, coal or wood fire. 
Upon my return to Hammond I bought a 
220 acre farm and decided to raise trees. 
During the past 6 years over 600,000 pupils 
in every state in the Union have planted trees 
and tree seed sent from this office many of 
whom are now raising from 100 to 15,000 
trees. Price lists on trees and printed matter 
pleading for men and women to assist in the 
work was mailed to over one million address. 
Many thought the idea of planting trees for 
preventing soil erosion or waiting from 50 to 
75 years for them to grow large enough to 
make lumber was silly and ridiculous or that 
the plan was a money making proposition. If 
it is a money making proposition what about 
the 7 state referred to below? 
LAST YEAR WITHOUT IT COSTING 
TAXPAYERS ONE DOLLAR, I SHIPPED 
OVER 50,000 MORE TREES (BOUGHT 
FROM NURSERIES) THAN WERE PLANT¬ 
ED BY THE STATE FORESTRY DEPART¬ 
MENTS OF IOWA, KANSAS, KENTUCKY, 
MISSISSIPPI, UTAH, CALIFORNIA AND 
WASHINGTON COMBINED which proves 
what can be done and by planting over 50,000 
more trees than did the forestry departments 
of these 7 great states which are maintained 
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