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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



and over 1,300,000 acres owned by in- obtained from the nurseries of the 

 dividnals or companies. Of these lands State College of Forestry. Illustra- 

 about 1,000,000 acres are forest, about ; tions are given showing the state of 



700,000 acres lumbered, 48,000 waste, 

 43,000 burned, 48.000 denuded, 22,000 



the land before reforestation. The 

 total expenses were $2,500 or less than 



Planting on Burned Land, once covered with White Pine. 



Planting on Old Beaver Meadow near Lake Clear Junction. 



wild meadows, 100,000 improved and one half a cent a plant. Owing to the 



125,000 water. During the last year organization of fire wardens, the loss 



reforestation was undertaken on a from forest fires is greatly decreasing, 



tract of 700 acres, the seedlings being It amounted last year only to $9,000, 



