10/31/13 



To secure a nerit badge in for-/.: try, boy scouts are 

 required, among other things, to identify ."5 kinds of trees* 



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One of the principal by-products of the national 



forests of Japan is furnished by mushrooms , v/hich have yielded 

 in one year a revenue of a million dollars. 



Articles of clothing from vrood fiber are being made 

 in Europe. The material for a suit costs -.bout fifty cents. 

 Clothing made of this material f however , can not >-e Y.T.shecl. 



One of the largest *;nd most valuable timber trees 

 of the country is the tulip tree, known, to lumbermen as yaU.ov: 

 poplar. It is related to the nagnolir.s, but is the only tree 

 of its kind in the world. 



Thv> l^rge^t tree in the United States is said to be 

 the "llother of the Forest," a giant redvood in the Calaverao 

 bigtree grove in California. It is supposed to contain 140,619 

 board feet of lumber. There are, however, many claimants for 

 the honor of being the "largest tree" and the "oldest tree," and 

 these claims, according to foresters, can not nlv-yn be verified 



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