PLANTING. 



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our country for le.ss than it would cost to plant, -i feet 

 apart, an acre of seedlings a few inches high. The 

 true way to save the forests is not to plant new ones, 

 but to protect and rightly use those which are standing 

 now. The extension of the forest to regions which 

 are without it is a most important task, but it must 

 not be confounded with the conservative use of the 

 forests now standing. For such use there is no sub- 

 stitute whatever. 



