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standard coppice, and from this to an ordinary selection 

 wood, which will, in the end, prove the best for such 

 lands. 



On wet overflow land willow produces fine crops of 

 long sprouts for basket weaving. Poplar, ash, elm, syca- 

 more, and, in the Southern States, sweet gum, water oak, 

 and other valuable trees thrive in similar situations. 



What such reforestation can do for a piece of land, even 

 in our country, is best illustrated by some of the worn- 

 out pastures in our New England States, where land which 

 produced no income at all has been converted into forests 

 cutting over thirty thousand feet B.M. of shook boards 

 at the age of sixty years and less ; or, in other words, a 

 forest capable of producing yearly a net income of three 

 dollars and more per acre. 



FOREST PLANTATIONS ON PRAIRIES 



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As with so many other good things, the forest is never 

 so keenly missed as in the vast treeless regions of the 

 West. Generally the land is fertile, but lack of moisture 

 has helped the grasses to monopolize the land. In all the 

 states east of the Rocky Mountains numerous forest plan- 

 tations have been established. The majority contain only 

 hardwoods, particularly maple, box elder, cottonwood, elm, 

 ash, catalpa, walnut, and locust. Pine and other conifers 

 have also been tried with success. 



