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The tenth successive year without a forest fire has 

 just been passed by the Powell national forebt in south central 



Utah. 



Yellow poplar, or tulip tree, the largest broadlea,f 

 tree in America, has been known to reach nearly 200 feet in 

 height and 10 feet in diameter. 



Pennsylvania has about 7-J- million acres of timber- 

 land, one-eighth of which is owned by the state. The total 

 value of the state's timber is 139 million dollars, 



Mistletoe thrives on the western cop.sts to an extent 

 not approached in the east* In many places this parasitic 

 growth is responsible, directly or indirectly, for a consid- 

 erable loss of timber. 



Forest officers in Fashington and Oregon plan to 

 discontinue the use of barbed wire on their forests. This 

 will affect their own pastures and public drift fences. They 

 say barbed wire has no advantage over smooth wire, that it 

 injures stock, and that it is more likely to be borne down 

 by soft snow. Stockmen on the Ochoco forest, in Oregon, re- 

 cently constructed drift fences of smooth wire, though with 

 some misgivings; now they say. they will never use barbed wire 

 again. 



JJ. JL JL '!. 

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