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Where not represented we ship on approval, freight paid. Send for catalogues K-8-0-7The Globe Wernicke Co. Cincinnati. The largest producers of office filing equipment in the world. Branch Stores: New York, 380-382 Broadway. Chicago, 224-228 Wabash Avenue. Boston, 91-93 Federal Street. SA By Guy E. Mitchell FORESTATION, or the work of tree planting in the United States, is one of the greatest works before the nation today. It is something which we must undertake and prosecute speedily if we are not to become bereft of our timber resources in the very near future. It involves the planting of tens and tens of millions of acres of trees in the eastern half of the country-the rainfall area-and the further planting of tens of millions of acres in the western half, or the arid and semiarid section. The magnitude of the undertaking is well nigh appalling, yet the results will be more than commensurate with the effort and the cost. Tree planting is one of the great branches of the forestry problem, than which there is perhaps no more important public question. These words of the chief forester of the United States, Gifford Pinchot, are sufficiently vigorous to attract the attention of even the most indifferent citizen. There are a good many people, however, who have come to realize that forestry is one of our really large and pressing internal problems; but not so many consider the possibilities or the necessity of forest planting on such a gigantic scale. Except China, all civilized nations care for the forests, and until recently the United States ranked nearly with China in this respect and still remains far behind the progressive modern countries in all that relates to the protection, preservation, planting and conservative use of forests. Yet we are the most lavish consumers of lumber in the world. According to Mr. Pinchot, every person in the United States is using over six times as much wood as he would if he were living in Europe. The country as a whole consumes every year more than four times more wood than all the forests of the United States grow in the meantime. Copyright, 1907, by Technical World Company. (3) TECHNICAL WORLD MAGAZINE Bakofibrary a comprehensive scale. Next to the earth itself the forest is the most useful servant of man. It sustains and regulates the streams, moderates the wind and supplies wood, the most widely used of ail materials. The object of practical forestry is to make the forest render its best service to man. Forest management and conservative lumbering are other names NO SHOOTING ALLOWED. ALL BIRDS, SQUIRRELS, DEER and Other ANIMALS Are Our FRIENDS. Do not Frighten or Molest Them. Let Us Make Them Our Welcome Guests. TAKE CARE OF THE TREES. Since 1880 we have cut for lumber alone the enormous total of seven hundred billion board feet of timber, while the increase in population is but half the increase in lumber cut in the same period. With these conditions continuing, we shall soon face a timber famine. We seem hardly to be awake to this fact and to the necessity for prompt action, not in curtailing our lumber consumption, that must go on; but in providing an increased timber supply. In all things but the consumption of wood we are, as stated, far behind other countries. In Austria, Italy, Norway and Sweden, government forestry is a well established part of the national life. Even Turkey, Greece, Spain and Portugal give attention to the forests. Russia, dealing, like ourselves, with vast areas of The UNITED STATES BUREAU OF FORESTRY has planted thousands of young Pine, Spruce and Other Trees on this Mountain. The Whole Mountain is Being Used by the Government as an Experimental Nursery for Forest Trees. If the Trees Grow, the Government Will Plant Forest Trees on all the Mountains of California. Planting of Trees in the Mountains Assures Plenty of Water for the Cities and the Farms in the Valleys. the Good Work Along. Help DO NOT INJURE THE TREES! PLACARD POSTED THROUGHOUT THE SAN BERNARDINO for practical forestry. Under whatever name it may be known, practical forestry means the creation, the use and the preservation of the forest. In the American forestry problem the first thing is the care and preservation of the 700,000,CC0 acres of forest land, including, of course, muc. cut-over land, still remaining as part of our national heritage; but looking a little into the future, and not very far ahead at that, a no less important work is the creating of new forests on a great scale-a forestation. The forest planting problem, which, worked out in connection with the preservation of our present forest area, will restore us to a condition where the production will be at least as great as the consumption, may be divided into two general classes; namely, private planting and government planting. The former is confined principally to the eastern half, or the rainbelt area, of the United States. The government planting will be confined to the western half, where the conditions are arid and the government still owns the great bulk of the land. There is an immense field for operation in both instances. Let us look first at the eastern |