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BETZ TREE NEWS 
For years, I visited many countries where 
I had goods made because there were not 
enough mechanics here to make them. 
In 1916-17, because of the War, 1 lived In 
Japan where I manufactured goods with 
mechanics who had served a 5 -year appren¬ 
ticeship and they earned as little as 30 cents 
per day. 
In foreign countries, boys 12 to 15 are en¬ 
couraged to learn trades. Few American boys 
think of it, and today our manufacturers 
must look to foreign countries for skilled 
help or goods, while millions of our boys from 
16 to 23 are hitch-hiking over the country, 
60,000 of whom entered our prisons in one 
year recently. 
I was raised on a farm in northern Wis¬ 
consin, part of which is now covered with 
sand to nine Inches. 
When we settled on this land, in 1868, it 
was the best in our section. Up to the time 
I left home, only one family In our township 
was on relief, caused by fire destroying their 
home and possessions. 
In 1879, I worked in a sawmill, then served 
five years learning the blacksmith and mach¬ 
inist trades; later spent seven years with a 
hospital insurance company, which provided 
hospital care for employees of lumber camps, 
sawmills, factories, etc. During that time, I 
visited 300 logging camps in Michigan, Wis¬ 
consin and Minnesota where today thousands 
of starving farmers are trying to make a 
living on worthless land. 
Have orossed the Atlantio 41 and the Pack 
he 5 times; visited practioally every country 
from the Equator to the Arotio Circle. Saw 
millions of people in Asia and Africa trying 
to make a living on land where you could 
travel for miles and not see a tree or water. 
That children of today will have a big 
load to carry, no one can deny. 
The $37 BILLION the government owes 
and the $20 BILLION owed by states, unless 
everyone assists in saving farmland that will 
still produce crops, is only a starter. 
The photograph I show you of the Yangtze 
in China where ships run 60 ft. above the 
farmland on each side gives an idea of what 
it will cost to build embankments for thou¬ 
sands of miles along the Ohio, Mississippi and 
other rivers for preventing floods, and mov¬ 
ing the thousands of farmers and those liv¬ 
ing along the rivers who lost everything to 
locations where they can make a living, if 
done properly, may cost over $37 BILLION 
more, and the longer we wait, the more it 
will cost those who say: “I know you have 
been at this work for years, that it must be 
done or we will be no better off than they are 
in China, and intend to give you a lift some 
day”. 
We have been sending about $175 MIL¬ 
LION yearly to foreign countries for paper 
pulp and for years have had millions of acres 
of the best idle pulp-producing land in the 
south to grow the trees on, and 30 million 
acres of the best tree-growing land in Mich¬ 
igan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, which pro¬ 
duced over 1,000 billion feet and would again 
if reforested. 
In 1919, farmers sold $394 MILLION worth 
of logs from 1,800,000 farms, and I doubt if 
one in 100 planted a tree. In foreign coun¬ 
tries, a tree must be planted for every one 
Many writers claim that cut-over land will 
reforest itself, but up to the present time, 
the millions of acres I covered between 50 
and 60 years ago have not done so. 
Many fail to consider that where there are 
no trees, then; are no birds, which save 
farmers over $100,000,000 yearly. 
Some birds consume from 300 to 10,000 in¬ 
sects and thousands of weed seed each in a 
single day. Government experts have found 
as many as 5,000 insects in the stomach of 
a single Flicker. Martins and Swallows con¬ 
sume 3,000 mosquitoes daily. A pair of Jays 
will consume one million caterpillars in a 
season, and they tell us if all birds were ex¬ 
terminated, there would not be a man alive 
in three years. 
In times like these, many nave all they 
can do to feed themselves and cats get our 
birds. 
How many know that trees throw off un¬ 
told billions of gallons of water daily, which 
is returned as rain? 
From each pound of dry leaves from 
Ash tree, 1,018 gallons of water are thro' 
off yearly. Birch, 918. Maple, 611. Elm, 8 
Oak, 691. For complete report, write 1 
Government Printing Office for “FORES 
AND WATER IN THE LIGHT OF 8CIE 
TIFIC INVESTIGATION.” 
, While our farmers are unable to make a 
< living on 160 acres, in China V/ 2 acres farmed 
; for over 8,000 years supports a family of 10. 
I visited one section in Hongkong where 
160,000 people lived on 160 acres. 
In India, I saw 21 people harvesting 5 acres. 
Between Cairo and Alexandria, 40 men and 
women were carrying bundles of wheat 40 
rods to the thrashing ground, where oxen 
tramped out the grain. 
For thousands of years, due to floods, the 
Nile Valley produced only one crop yearly. 
Today, the Assuan Dam onables them to 
produce three crops. 
Now, gentlemen, I always make it a rule 
where I talk “trees” to raise what money I 
can to be turned over to a committee to buy 
one or two little trees at one cent each for 
each pupil, which, if planted in a box or flower 
pot, in mud, and put in the basement near a 
window and not allowed to dry out during 
the winter, will grow 12 to 30 inches. In the 
spring, they can be planted in the garden, or 
they can be planted in the garden now and 
mulched with leaves. 
I should like to see this made a business 
men’s proposition throughout the country. 
Many may not believe in it, but go north, 
south, east or west to any section you were 
familiar with 25 years ago, and you will find 
many who were on “easy street” then, broke 
today. 
Spend a few cents now for trees, prevent 
conditions from getting worse, and save your 
children from spending thousands. 
We require lumber for rebuilding and re¬ 
pairing over 4,000,000 houses and barns on 
farms and villages, where 95% of the build¬ 
ings are of lumber. We need billions of trees 
for shade, birds, water and fuel. 
When you are through with this circular, 
kindly hand it to some friend or superinten¬ 
dent of schools. If you will send 25 cents in 
stamps, to assist in defraying expenses, I will 
gladly send you a bundle of printed matter, 
covering trees and seed, for distribution to 
your business men, who, if they read it, must 
realize what will eventually happen. 
Nothing can save this country but men 
who do things instead of criticize. 
I THANK YOU. FRANK S. BETZ 
P. S. 
I have been asked how much wealth I could 
add to this country if the Kiwanis Clubs got 
behind this proposition, and I said that If 
superintendents of schools would teach pupils, 
county agents would open the eyes of farmers, 
and newspapers and those who have property 
and must pay the bills would assist, I would 
guarantee to add over $25 BILLION to the 
wealth of this country inside of the next 10 
years. 
BEFORE MAILING THIS CIRCULAR, 
I decided to take a daylight plane trip on 
the new T. W. A. Line from Chicago to San 
Francisco, northern route, and return via 
Texas. With powerful glasses, I observed a 
few scattered herds of cattle and sheep, end¬ 
less acres once farmed and millions of acres 
that will eventually be nothing but desert 
unless irrigated, and while all this was very 
discouraging, never have I enjoyed a trip more 
A COLLEGE EDUCATION 
WILL YOU ADVANCE $5.00 OR $10.00 
FOR PURCHASING TREES FOR SOME 
HIGH SCHOOL PUPIL, WHICH HE CAN 
SELL LATER ON AND PAY HIS WAY 
THROUGH COLLEGE? 
Never Before and Never Again 
Will Such Low Prices Be Made 
For Balled and Bailed Trees 
5 10 
Trees Trees 
ARBOR VITAE, Am. 18-24 in.$2.50 $4.50 
“ “ 24-36 in. .. 3.00 5.25 
" ” Berckman’6 15-18 " 3.75 6.75 
” ” ” ....18-24" 5.00 9.00 
“ “ Bonita, 12-18 in... 3.25 5.7S 
“ “ “ 18-24 in..... 4.00 7.25 
“ “ Chinese, 18-24 in. 2.25 3.75 
“ “ “ 24-36 in. 3.25 5.50 
“ “ Compacts 12-18 in. 3.25 6.00 
“ “ “ 18-24 in. 4.00 7.50 
“ “ Globe, 12-15 in. 2.75 4.75 
“ “ “ 15-18 in. 3.75 6.75 
JUNIPER, Irish, 18-24 in. 3.00 5.50 
“ “ 24-36 in. 3.50 6.00 
“ “ 36-48 in. 4.25 7.50 
" Pfitzer, 15-18 in. _ 4.25 7.50 
“ “ 18-24 in. 6.00 11.00 
“ Savin, 12-15 in. 3.25 6.00 
“ “ 15-18 in.. 4.00 7.50 
“ 18-24 in. 5.50 9.50 
HEMLOCK, Canadian 18-24 in... 3.75 7.00 
“ 24-30 in. 5.00 9.50 
“ 30-36 in. 6.00 11.50 
EVERGREENS, Broadleaf 
ABE LI A, Grandiflora, 24-36 in..... 1.75 3.00 
“ 36-48 in. 2.25 4.25 
BROOM, Scotch, 18-24 in. 2.00 3.25 
“ 24-36 in. 2.50 4,25 
EUONYMUS, Sieboldi, 18-24 in. 2.75 4.75 
“ “ 24-36 in... 3.25 6.00 
HOLLY, American, 18-24 in. 3.25 6.00 
“ 24-36 in. 4.25 8.00 
MAGNOLIA, Grandiflora 24-36 in. 3.25 6.00 
“ 36-48 in. 3.75 6.75 
If Cholera Broke Out 
in 81 of 102 counties in (Illinois, would news¬ 
papers wait until from 11% to 75% of the 
people died before they advised everyone what 
to do? 
The Government map above shows 81 of 102 
counties ruined from 11% to75% by erosion, 
which will require gennerations to bring back. 
The more land ruined, the more people to be 
taken care of by taxpayers. 
$1.40 Will Return Over $30,000 
One bushel (about 1250) water-tested WAL¬ 
NUTS, should produce 1,000 trees worth $25 
to over $100 each which planted on land that 
has brought in no income for years will eventu¬ 
ally make your children Independent. 
Three bushel, only $4.35. Ten Bushel, 
$13.00. 25 Bushel, $31.25. Nuts are all 
water-tested. 
BETZ SETS THE PACE 
SENT OUT BY THE INDIANA DIVISION 
OF FORESTRY, 1929 
The people live in mud huts without floors, 
doors or windows. The children follow the 
cattle day after day gathering their oflal 
which is the only fuel the family have. 
The subject of this Bulletin is to recognize 
the valuable assistance of one of the first 
private individuals in Indiana who took off 
his coat in 1928 and went to work without 
pay on the tremendous problem of refor¬ 
estation. 
The varied career of Mr. Frank S. Betz 
will be interesting to friends of forestry. 
Mr. Betz was raised on a farm in Wis¬ 
consin and knows forest conditions in prac¬ 
tically every foreign country north of the 
Equator. He worked in a lumber mill and ran 
logs on the Chippewa river in 1879. For seven 
years beginning 1884 he sold hospital insur¬ 
ance to men working in sawmills, lumber 
yards and lumber jacks in over 300 logging 
camps in Michigan, Wisconsin nd Minnesota, 
traveling through miles of wilderness. 
After accumulating a smail fortune during 
the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893 and los¬ 
ing it he started the Frank S. Betz Company 
in a coal shed in 1895. In a few months he 
was occupying five rented buildings. He then 
built a plant in Chicago and in 1904 he pur¬ 
chased 12 acres in Hammond and built the 
first seotion of the Hammond plant which be¬ 
came the largest medical equipment industry 
in the world. 
On his many trips abroad and while trav- 
ling through the farming districts in China, 
apan, India, Palestine and Egypt he was 
ripressed with the great social economic 
alue of forests. Where there were no trees 
here was an impoverished nation, traced 
irer.tlv to the destruction of their forests. 
THE NATIONAL LUMBER ASS N 
Frank S. Betz, of Hammond, Indiana, who 
retired in 1915, U now injecting his energy 
into reforestation, not a campaign of words, 
but of actual work. Ho is setting the example 
in his home state, and urges men in other 
states to do likewise. 
Mr. Betz is well acquainted with the log¬ 
ging and milling end of the lumber industry. 
According to biographical sketch of him, pub¬ 
lished in 1929, in the official organ of the 
American Surgical Trade Association, he 
worked in a sawmill and spent 7 years visiting 
Mr. Betz bought a farm five years ago 
where he raises all kinds of trees from seed. 
While experimenting he wanted trees for the 
Betz Boy Scout Camp. 
He then took up the matter with the Ham¬ 
mond Superintendent of Schools and offered 
to furnish 500,000 pine, spruce and arbor vitae 
tree seeds for the pupils to experiment with 
free. Mr. Caldwell, Superintendent agreed to 
this, and over 2,000,000 were planted by Lake 
County pupils, and over 8,000,000 were plant¬ 
ed this year. 
Up to the present time tree seeds were 
ilanted by over 400,000 pupils. His offer to 
he Indiana Department of Conservation last 
/eek will mean millions of dollars added to 
he wealth of the state. 
Mr. Betz’s offer is to turn over free of 
harge as many water tested walnuts as there 
lere walnut seedings planted by all state 
urseries in the United States last year, 
hese walnuts are to be planted by school 
hildren and Boy and Girl Scouts, etc., etc. 
The future economic value of five million 
walnut trees worth even $25 each, would 
amount to $125,000,000. 
r. F. WILCOX, State Forester. 
OAK, WHITE or CHESTNUT 
125,000 BEAUTIES. WHILE THEY LAST, 
-12 INCH, $17.50 PER 1,000. 12-18 INCH, 
,22.50. THEY MUST BE SOLD. 
„ WASHINGTON D. 1929 
lumber camps selling hospital insurance. Dur¬ 
ing this time he visited over 300 logging 
camps in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. 
He has traveled through Egypt, Palestine, 
China, and India and over every mile of rail¬ 
road in Alaska, and down the Yukon and up 
the Tanana. 
The work is carried on from Indiana. In 
one letter he writes: “I wish you would put 
me in touch with men whose hearts are in the 
right place and who will do in their states 
what I am doing here.” 
RUIT TREES, FIRST QUALITY, BUDDED OR GRAFTED 
In Lots of 10, 25, and 100 
[ave Friends Order with You and Get The Wholesale Price 
APPLES—Baldwin, Early Harvest, Jonathan, 
Maiden Blush, Red June, Winter Banana, 
King David, Fall Pippin, Greening, Red or 
Yellow Delicious, Winesap, Yellow Horse, or 
Imperial. 12-18" 25 for $2.25 — 100, $7.50. 
18-24" 10 for $1.75 — 25, $3.25 — 100, $10.00 
24-36" 10 for $2.50 — 25, $3.90 — 100, $11.75 
36-48" 10 for $3.25 — 25, $5.75 — 100, $17.50 
48-60" 10 for $3.75 — 25, $6.50 — 100, $20.50. 
BIG CHERRY OFFER — 10 BIG MONT¬ 
MORENCY, EARLY RICHMOND, BLACK 
TARTARIAN, GOVERNOR WOOD, or NA¬ 
POLEON, 36-48 inch, ready to bear, $5.80. 
DON’T MISS THIS. 
APRICOTS — Early Golden. 24-36" 10 for 
$2.50 — 25, $3.90 100, $11.75. 36-48 
10 for $3.25 — 25, $5.75 — 100, $17.50. 
PEACHES — Gold Jubilee, Early or Late 
Alberta, Carman, Crawford’s, Hiley, Hale, 
Red Bird, South Haven, Indian Blood, or 
Health Cling. 12-18" 25 for $2.25 — 100, 
$6.50. 18-24", 10 for $1.50 — 25, $2.50 — 
100, $8.50. 24-36" 10 for $2.00 — 25, $3.25 
— 100, $10.00. 36-48", 10 for $2.50 — 25, 
$4.25 - 100, $15.00. 
PLUMS—Blue Damson, Abundance, Bur¬ 
bank’s, or Wickerson. 18-24", 25 for S3. 00 — 
100, $7.50. 24-36", 10 for $2.00 — 25, $4.00 
_ 100, $12.50. 36-48", 10 for $3.00 — 25, 
$5.75 — 100, $17.50. 
WOMAN’S CLUB OUTFITS—GREATEST OFFERS EVER MADE 
WILL ADD FROM $100 TO $500 TO ANY 
PROPERTY. THE BEST TREES AND 
FLOWERING SHRUBS FOR ONE-QUAR¬ 
TER OF WHAT YOU WOULD PAY IF YOU 
ORDERED THEM SEPARATELY. 
WOMAN’S CLUB OUTFITS 
100 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERING SHRUBS 
NO. 1 — All 12-18" 10 of each: Althea 
Rosea — Japanese Barberry — Calycanthus 
8weet Shrub — Red Bark Dogwood — Golden 
Bell Forsythia — Pink Deutzia — Ibolium 
Privet — White Spirea Van Houttei — Pink 
Spirea — Pink Weigelia. Worth $50 On Any 
Lawn — ALL FOR $3.50. 
NO. 1A — SAME AS ABOVE, ONLY 
18-24 INCHES HIGH, $5.00. 
100 LAWN AND SHADE TREES 
NO. 2 — All 18-24" 10 of each. Trees every¬ 
one wants: Honey Locust —■ American Beech 
— Black Walnut — Tulip — Russian Mul¬ 
berry — Red Bud— Sugar or Hard Maple — 
Silver Leaf Maple — American Elm — Amer¬ 
ican Linden.— ONLY $3.CO. 
NO. 2A — SAME AS ABOVE, ONLY 
24-30 INCHES HIGH, $3.75. 
NO. 8—THE LEADER. All 48-69 inch, 5 of 
Each: RED BUD,—WHITE FLOWERING 
DOGWOOD, — TULIP POP LA R,—SW E ET 
GUM.— AND SUGAR MAPLE. —For $4.75 
NO. 9—THE GREAT LEADER. SAME AS 
ABOVE 60-72 INCH - ONLY $6.50 
NO. 10 — IRIS, assorted varieties, mixed colors 
Per 100—$2.00 -Per 1,000—$12.50 
A BLESSING 
and business men who own worthless, eroded, 
drought-stricken farmland, or have friends 
who own such land. 
The new RUSSIAN GIANT SUNFLOWER 
referred to in this country for the first time 
May 8, ‘37, grows 15 feet high, and has 18 -in. 
heads. 
The Russian Embassy report that in 1936, 
1,047,000,000 pounds of oil were extracted and 
used for food and In industry, and this year 
they plantted 7,090,000 acres, which should 
produce 3,000,000,000 pounds of oil. 
We have imported as much as 5,677,000 
pounds of seed and 37,000,000 pounds of oil in 
a single year. 
Of the two large seed shipments I distri¬ 
buted last spring many have written letters 
of amazement at the rapidity of growth and 
enormous size. 
Average yield for Missouri, 400 lbs; Illinois, 
650; and California, 700 lbs. per acre, and 
from 20 to 30 tons of feed. 
SEND A ONE DOLLAR BILL TODAY 
FOR ENOUGH 8EED FOR 1938 PLANTING 
TO PRODUCE SEED FOR PLANTING A 
BIG FARM IN 1939. OR 25 CENTS BUYS 
ENOUGH FOR A DOZEN LAWNS. 
TO FARMERS 
I On account of the enormous amount of oil, 
it is the coming feed for stock and fowl. Costs 
little, does the work, and will grow anywhere. 
Don’t make the mistake thousands did when 
upon returning from the Far East in 1917, I 
told our Chamber of Commerce about the 
millions of pounds of soy beans raised in Asia 
that our farmers could grow if they would 
wake up. 
- —. Huuuua 
this seed we now import are harvested 
hand, and that we import over 30,000,000 I 
of butter and, in Januaury, alone, o: 
19,000,000 pounds cf meat. GIANT russu 
SUNFLOWER SEED will change this, a 
our farmers who will wafce up can get 1 
money going to foreign countries. 
SEND A ONE DOLLAR BILL FOR SEI 
AT ONCE. In addition to being unxecel 
as a stock and fowl feed, a large concern 
fu‘ U L no H' puts them up in smal1 bags 
the hundreds who enjoy eating them li 
peanuts. 11 
y° u raise chickens, Si.oo worth of si 
will produce enough to make over $ioo. 
