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2,200,000; Mississippi, 17,500,000; 

 North Carolina, 19,000,000 ; South Caro- 

 lina, 12,000,000; Tennessee, 15,000,000; 

 Texas, 30,000,000 ; Virginia, 14,000,000, 

 and West Virginia, 9,100,000 acres. 

 These forests should be so used that the 

 very most may be made from the annual 

 cut, while at the same time the cut is 

 being replaced by new growth, thus 

 insuring a perpetual source of wealth. 

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The future of the South is bound up in 

 forest preservation with its accompany- 

 ing protection to water-sheds, power 

 streams and wood-working industries ; 

 not only in the protection of the water- 

 sheds, which will some day furnish the 

 power to the great majority of the 

 manufacturing establishments but in 

 the prosperous continuance of indus- 

 tries depending upon forest products. 



