Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1904 — The Forestry Farm. [ARTICLE]

The Forestry Farm.

It ought to be understood by everybody that owns land in Indiana that the forestry farm the state has purchased and is financing is to be simply an example auH objeot lesson in the reforestation of the state. The lack of interest in the matter, and the failure of so many people to grasp the [soope of the movement on the part of the state leads one to the oouolusion that there is an impression abroad that the state forest will in some occult way make trees grow in bare places all over the state without the formality of planting seeds. The state forestry is simply a school of forestry; an example of what can be done and ought "to be done in the way o: growing trees —Brookville American.