The Following 10 Lines Copied From Senate Resolution 
175, 72nd Congress, will be news to men who believe the fairy tales about our standing timber pro¬ 
ducing enough lumber to last 50 to 75 years when if business picks up, as it should our standing timber 
will not supply the grades and sizes we require and for export for 30 years and lumber will double in 
price inside of 10 years. 
Whereas the consumption of the forests of the United States has progressed to 
a point at which their early exaustion is threatened; it being estimated (1) that 
over 50 per centum of all the softwood lumber cut in the United States has been 
cut during the last thirty years; (2) that, with a population almost 60 per centum 
greater today than at the beginning of the twentieth century, the United States 
has been using nearly three hundred billion feet of softwood lumber alone during 
each decade since 1900; (3) that in 1928, with a population of more than one 
hundred and twenty-million, the annual cut of softwood lumber alone was 
twenty-eight billion feet; and (4) that there now remain in the territory east of 
the prairies, only about twenty-five billion feet of original timber; 
if Ay* 
How often do you hear men say, “We can get along without the outside world,” or, “We can 
produce everything we need.” Yet over 4 million lbs. of our Thanksgiving Turkey came from Argen¬ 
tine and 2 millions lbs. from other countries and over 3 million lbs. of dried Eggs and our farmers have 
millions of bushels of surplus grain. 
We consider a 25,000 acre farm a wonder. In Russia they have one of 375,000 acres and another of 
277,000 acres, one acre of which will produce more than 3 acres of our soil-eroded land. The printed 
matter sent herein tells you all about it. 
YOU CAN ASSIST IN BETTERING CONDITIONS IN YOUR DISTRICT BY FURNISH¬ 
ING A ONE CENT TREE TO EACH PUPIL in YOUR SCHOOLS or an outfit of PINE, ARBOR 
VITAE, SPRUCE and COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE TREE SEED that will cost only one cent 
for each pupil. 
OR I WILL PRESENT FREE 1000 COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE TREE SEED which should 
produce over 500 of the most beautiful trees, to school teachers or anyone who will collect one cent 
from each of 25 pupils, Scouts or 4H Club members and send 25 cents in postage stamps for a bag of 
PINE, SPRUCE, ARBOR VITAE and COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE EVERGREEN TREE 
SEED which they are to plant AS CABBAGE OR TOMATO SEED ARE PLANTED. 
Read about China, India, Palestine and Egypt. Read about the 39,667 Mississippi farmers sold out 
by 74 sheriffs and SEND A CHECK TODAY FOR TREES OR TREE SEED TO BE TURNED 
OVER TO THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS FOR THE PUPILS TO PLANT, FOR 
YOUR PARK, HIGHWAYS. Do it now before it is too late. 
WHILE THEY LAST- $1000 profit from $50in 3 to 5 years. 
250 OF ANY 4 OF THE FOLLOWING TREES AT THE 1000 PRICE. 
250 AT THE 1000 PRICE PLUS $1 FOR PACKING. 
Any farmer will raise them for half the profits. All have been transplanted. THEY ARE PRAC¬ 
TICALLY GIVEN AWAY. TREES SHIPPED DIRECT FROM NURSERY 
Norway, Spruce, 12-18 inches 
1000 Trees 
$40.00 
Austrian Pine, 12-24 inches 
.1000 Trees 
80.00 
White Spruce, 12-18 inches 
40.00 
Norway Pine, 12-18 inches 
50.00 
Mugho Pine, 8-12 inches 
25.00 
Ponderosa Pine, 8-12 inches 
Engelman Spruce, 6-10 inches 
35.00 
Colorado Blue Spruce 12-15 inches 
100.00 
40.00 
Chinese Arbor Vitae, 15-18 inches 
30.00 
Black Hill Spruce, 8-12 inches 
75.00 
Irish Juniper, 8-10 inches 
50.00 
Balsam Fir, 12-18 inches 
50.00 
SEE “BETZ TREE SUPPLEMENT” FOR TREES — ONE CENT EACH. 
FRANK S. BETZ (PERSONAL) HAMMOND, INDIANA 
