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Soldiers of the Common Good: August: State

Several States have forest-nurseries which supply trees at cost. "FIRING THE WOODS" IN QUITE ANOTHER WAY If you had been in New York State not long ago you would have seen a fine example of team-work in connection with one of these nurseries; and if you're a New York State Boy Scout you were right in it, like enough. A lot of trees from the big State nursery were set out by Boy Scouts in co-operation with the State Federation of Women's Clubs and the State Forestry Association. Under the direction of State foresters the boys began the planting of the trees on one hundred acres of land purchased by the federation for the purpose and to be known as the Federation Forest.

The great value of such things lies not alone in the planting of the trees but in the team-work. When once you get it going thoroughly, public enthusiasm spreads much like the forest fires themselves. Or, to put it in another way, it grows, not like simple, but like compound, interest. Here's a splendid example of it in which boys figure again.