. Yearbook of agriculture . ng has been made in the establishment of forestexperiment stations which should as rapidly as possible beextended to cover at least all the principal forest regionsof the country. Notable contributions have been made toour knowledge of remaining timber supplies and relatedeconomic subjects. Information on the need for timber growing and the bestmethods for growing and utilizing timber has been Avidelydisseminated. Public opinion has been aroused until nowthere is a powerful nation-wide support for the adoptionof a national policy which will bring about the growing o
. Yearbook of agriculture . ng has been made in the establishment of forestexperiment stations which should as rapidly as possible beextended to cover at least all the principal forest regionsof the country. Notable contributions have been made toour knowledge of remaining timber supplies and relatedeconomic subjects. Information on the need for timber growing and the bestmethods for growing and utilizing timber has been Avidelydisseminated. Public opinion has been aroused until nowthere is a powerful nation-wide support for the adoptionof a national policy which will bring about the growing of 56 Ycdihook of flie Department of Agriculture^ 1921. timber on privately owned lands to supiDlement that whichcan be produced on national forests and other publicholdings. Protection From Fire. Through the example of the national forests the ForestService has extended the work of fire protection over theforested areas of one-half of the States of the Union. Inits earlicM- work the efforts of the Forest Service at control-. Fk;. 19.—A Forest Service fire lookout, on top of a mountain in the West,from which an oh.«irver stands jruard over a million acres of national forestIrind from daylight to dark all through the dangerous season. ling forest fires often met with ridicule as being hopelessor impossible. Last year 24 States cooperated with the Fed-eral Government in forest-fire protection. This year thefund for cooperation with the States was raised from $125,000to a new total of $400,000. The larger appropriation hasgreatly stimulated local effort along the same lines. Theprotection of forests against fire is a problem in which thereare three parties in interest—the owner, who hopes to sellthe timl^er: the local public, whose carelessness is the causeof part of the hazard; and the Nation, through its interestin navigation and welfare. Efficient fire protection will con- Report of the Secretary. 57 tribute largely toward the solution of the problem of ourfuture timber sup
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