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growing, and with our increase in population 
and reduced forest area, we will soon be using 
it five, six or seven times as fast as it is being 
produced. This means future scarcity of lum¬ 
ber, high prices for forest productions and 
profit in reforesting land. 
The idea of planting trees to grow lumber 
is not new, except that it has not been prac¬ 
ticed much in this State, having been in gen¬ 
eral practice in Germany and France for nearly 
three centuries. It is a necessity as a result 
of the methods which have been pursued in 
the past handling of our forest lands. 
Nature does not care how many trees are 
growing to an acre, nor if these trees contain 
one or four log lengths, not if the material 
will be worth five or fifty dollars per thousand 
feet, nor if it takes her forty or two hundred 
years to produce a twelve-inch tree. The future 
of this country requires that we utilize, to the 
best advantage, all of our energies properly. 
It requires that idle land, not suitable or fit 
for agricultural purposes, be used for produc¬ 
ing wood crops. It is also important, from a 
social and economic standpoint, because thou¬ 
sands of acres of idle land in a town is just 
as serious an economic problem as a large 
number of unemployed men, because both are 
producers and when they are not employed, the 
value of products from a town or section is re¬ 
duced in proportion to the unemployed men 
or lands. 
It is fair to consider every tree a machine, 
which is or can be used, if properly handled, 
to manufacture wood material or lumber. A 
tree is a machine because it takes carbonic acid 
gas from the air and pinups water from the soil 
up into the leaves and there in the leaves, under 
the influence of sunshine, converts the carbonic 
acid gas of the air and water from the soil into 
sugar, which passes through the tree as sap 
and later into starch and finally into wood. 
With this general fact in mind and more specific 
data in regard to soil adaptations of the va¬ 
rious trees, the forester is able to control the 
composition of his crop by planting, if he does 
not have the kind of tree best adapted or the 
sjecies which is most profitable to grow, and 
can, by the use of his ax, remove the undesir¬ 
able weed or trees and give the preferred trees 
the benefit of all the light, air and soil. 
Forestry is not sentiment, but purely a busi¬ 
ness proposition. It is similar to agriculture, 
in that land is used for the production of crops. 
As the farmer is engaged in the production of 
food crops, so the forester is at work growing 
wood crops. Proper methods in handling 
forest lands and the.wise use of our forests and 
forest areas, is just as necessary an essential 
as such intelligence is required to secure profit 
from farm lands. 
Forestry does not consist simply in planting 
trees, but in the best utilization of the existing 
forest. It means method in handling woodland,- 
which will produce results in the same manner, 
as good agriculture pays better returns than 
old-fashioned farming. It means protection of 
our forest lands from fires. It means cutting 
trees when they have ceased to grow enough 
material each year to produce a profit upon the 
land. It means securing benefits to other in¬ 
dustries, such as protecting our lowlands from 
floods, or regulating the flow of water in our 
streams by means of the forest cover, which it 
forms on these uplands. It means the judicious 
management of land not fit for agricultural 
purposes, in such a way that the greatest re¬ 
turns will, in the long run, be secured. 
The time is already at hand when no land- 
owner can afford to allow nature to have full 
charge and management of his forest proper¬ 
ties, or of land which should be in forest. Idle 
land must be planted, natural growth must be 
cared for by thinning out the weeds or useless 
trees, and forestry methods used. This is not 
a move for the beautification of our State, but 
simply a pure, clean business proposition. 
The Forest and Stream may he obtained from 
any newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to 
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