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A PRIMER OF FORESTRY. 



PLANTING. 



It has often been proposed to plant trees in order to 

 repair the damage done to the forests by the Uimber- 

 men. Tree planting is most useful in all the treeless or 

 scantily wooded portions of our country where planted 



Fig. 38. — A European larch grove in western 

 Minnesota. Cost of planting per acre 17 years 

 ago, $64.45. Present value per acre, $484. 



trees will grow, and wherever forests have been very 

 severely injured or destroyed, but it is generally far too 

 expensive to take the place of conservative lumbering 

 in regions already forested. An acre of growing natural 

 forest can be bought in nearly every forested part of 



