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President Roosevelt urges the future farmers of America to grow trees.

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I just want to say one or two words to you who represent very well the younger generation

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who are going to have in their hands the future of American rural life.

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I myself was born on a farm so I know something about it.

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There are a great many people in every state, upstate New York,

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down through the south, out through the west, who are running farms,

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who have got the old wood lot and have never paid any particular attention to it.

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And there are a great many farms that haven't got wood lots that ought to have them.

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I believe that this country can be made self-sustaining from the point of view

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of its own timber supply. That can be accomplished not only in the big national forests and the big

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areas in the Appalachian system and the Rocky Mountain system where we get lumber on a wholesale

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basis, but there's hardly a farm in this country that can in some way provide,

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at least in part, for its own lumber and timber needs.