iTOPoT 1TOTKS 

 The na+1 onal forests of Chi 1 o cove.t- -i^ouf. 7,OOO,COO. 



acres . 



The forest service of India has demonstrated that 



teak wood grown in plantations Is just as strong as that vrov 

 in r?atur??.l forests. 



H 1 ^ en the well-protected forests of Crernwciy are by no 

 means Immune from fire, and the Prussian fire protect on system 

 makes use of lookout towers and telephones. 



JIuoh of the so-called silk nowadays is mad'? of wood. 

 Germeny produces more than one million pounds of this cellulose 

 silk, worth *1 7 500,000. A ton of wood v:orth 10 yields cellu- 

 lose worth $20, and i-his c^Iluloso yi9lds silk worth 350. 



Army "bayonets now form part of the emergency tele- 

 phone oi:>.tfit of forest rangers, rsed chiefly in f .L^htlii^ fires. 

 This emergency line consistr? of pmall instruments and a coil of 

 fine copper wire. The wire is attached to tli2 nearest tele- 

 phono lin<;, thri Bayonet is trirust into noist ground at ths 



.p.1- end, pr.d with the clro.ui1 thus comple-ted. the ranger can 

 taJ 1 y r ith h^adcjuarters, report his position, ar-d summon fire 

 fighterf3 ..if necessarv. 



