. Inglenook, The (1911) . which hashitherto been one of her greatest prod-ucts, has become alarming. Today theconsumption of American forests ex-ceeds the growth about four times. The individual owners of this timber,in their ambition, have seemingly failedto realize that their timber supply is ex-;haustible. Looking at the question carefully, sta-tistics show that the Northwestern Statesalone are still increasing their output oflumber, yearly. The Southern States are now at theirhighest possible limit, and the North-eastern and lake States have been de-creasing for the past ten years. History
. Inglenook, The (1911) . which hashitherto been one of her greatest prod-ucts, has become alarming. Today theconsumption of American forests ex-ceeds the growth about four times. The individual owners of this timber,in their ambition, have seemingly failedto realize that their timber supply is ex-;haustible. Looking at the question carefully, sta-tistics show that the Northwestern Statesalone are still increasing their output oflumber, yearly. The Southern States are now at theirhighest possible limit, and the North-eastern and lake States have been de-creasing for the past ten years. History shows that retrogressionand decay have followed in the wake oftimber exhaustion in every nation, forthe reason that civilization and progresshave always been dependent on an un-failing timber supply. The older countries have each in turnsettled this same question, regarding theconservation of forests, which now con-fronts America. One hundred and fifty years ago, Ger-many began commercial forestry, and The Inglenook 907. Where men eke out a miserable existence. ? now the products of her forests are in-| creasing-. France and Denmark began; forest legislation about 1560. Some of the European countries didnot settle the question in this way. Hol-land, for example, will not grow commer-cial forests as she can get her timbercheaper by exchanging her farm prod-ucts for the timber of other this question has been settled dif-ferently by different countries, so forthe same causes it will be settled differ-ently by different sections of America. In some sections of America it hasproven the wiser plan to dispose of thetimber and cultivate the land, but inothers, this attempt is even pitiful, notto say wasteful. Take for instance the pine lands ofnorthern Michigan, cut over by lumber-men and then abandoned. After a fewyears they have fallen into the hands oireal estate agents, who by the means ofdeceptive literature and misleading state-ments have sold them to innocent home-
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