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FORKSTRV :muSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF WASHIXf.TON 



opportunities for research work. And school building into the very heart of 

 one of the special advantages is that the these forests in less than an hour by 

 instructor can take his class from the foot or by trolley. 



THE EXTENSIVE GERMAN FORESTS 



CONSUL GENERAL A. M. 

 THACKARA, of Berlin, states 

 that Germany's area of forest 

 lands is about ;54,500,000 acres, or 

 about 27 per cent of the whole area of 

 the country. About 11,000,000 acres of 



forest lands belong to the various State 

 governments of Germany, 5,500,000 

 acres are public forests; over 600,000 

 acres belong to Kings and Princes of 

 various States, while 10,000,000 acres 

 are privately owned. 



/. R. McCarthy, field agent for the Chestnut Tree Blight Coniinission, with headquarters 

 in Philadelphia, is now at Ridgway, Elk County, Pennsylvania, and zvlll make his head- 

 quarters there for several mouths, during zi'liicli he zi'ill examine the trees of the county for 

 the fungus disease. 



The American Forestry Co., of South Framingha)ii, Mass., lias just received an order 

 for 20,000 little white pine trees, about eight inches long, from the Marlboro Water Dept. 

 These "will be set out around Lake llllliauis, zchich supplies the city Zi'ith water. 



