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where land is very valuable and must never be left idle. 

 In our own country Nature indicates the use of this method 

 for a large portion of the pineries of the South, and parts 

 of the Rockies, and also in the red fir forests of the 

 Pacific coast, where millions of acres of burns have been 

 most beautifully restocked in this manner without any care 

 on the part of man. The chief advantages of this method 

 are that it does away with the tedious marking ; that, in 

 felling, the men are not hampered by the fear of injuring 

 young growth or standing timber ; and that the skidding 

 and hauling is not interfered with by standing timber and 

 young growth, and therefore can be done much cheaper. 



STARTING THE YOUNG GROWTH BY ARTIFICIAL 

 PLANTING OR SOWING 



On many of the old farms in Massachusetts, New 

 Hampshire, and other eastern states, portions of the land 

 have become worn out by long tillage and use. They 

 became pastures and, finally, almost useless brush lands. 

 Some of these were planted or sowed to white pine, and 

 land which sixty years ago was worth almost nothing to 

 its owner, since it could earn no rental worth mention, is 

 now covered with a forest of white pine worth one hun- 

 dred and fifty dollars and more per acre. 



This way of dealing with the forest, to cut clean and 

 then replant, is a common method in European countries 



