Show FORESTS WILL GROW Views of Americas Most Fanous Forestry Expert W WILLARD ASH HERE I PREPARING EXHIBIT FOR TH PAt EXPOSITION + DOE Not Believe Our Forests Cnn Be Renewed By Planting But Will Renew Themselves If Given a ChanceSheep Do Not Injure the Forests I 4 The greatest expert on forestry In the United States is W Willard Ashe who is stopping at the Kenyon Mr Ashe has given a great deal of attention to this subject and has been commIssioned by the United State to prepare the forest exhibit at the ParIs exposition I have been west cn business connected con-nected with mJ department said Mr Ashe Ve vi1i have a great exhibit at Paris I shall have several sections sectons of our great trees on exhibition there The subject of forestry is one that Is I very extensive and opens up a great held I am not an alarmist and do not believe In fire alarm methods Our forests have suffered by fires and otherwise other-wIse wIseU U we permit them to grow we wJ obtain results satisfactory Ye cannot restore our forests by replanting My observation has been that the forests have not been so badly destroyed as to render their future growth Impossible Impossi-ble I am not much of a believer in re forestratcn I have Inspected the forests for-ests of Jour western mountains and I J believe nature will assert itself Take your older forests and even i It Is cutout I cut-out the new growth will renew It I see a great deal of talk about sheep but I will put my opinion that sheep do not hurt a forest and do not Injure the water supplY Of course when sheep are turned onto land they will naturally Injure the young growth ot the forests but they cannot hurt the older timber |