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nual growth of spruce in the state warrants 

 the cutting of 637,000,000 feet per year with- 

 out depleting the supply. The pulp mills con- 

 sume about 275,000,000 feet of spruce per 

 year, leaving for general sawmill purposes 

 362,000,000 feet of spruce without encroaching 

 upon the legitimate growth of the forests. It 

 it thus shown that with proper fire protection 

 and with careful harvesting there is ample 

 spruce in the state to supply a large demand 

 indefinitely. Even when the land has been 

 ravaged by the thoughtless lumberman, the 

 undersized trees left standing furnish another 

 crop in a comparatively short time. In 1903-04 

 the legislature of the state made an appropria- 

 tion for public instruction in forestry, this in- 

 struction taking the form of a forestry course 

 in the University of Maine. The course em- 

 braces general forestry, forest botany, including 

 field and laboratory work, forest measurements, 

 lumbering, forest management and the like. 

 There is a major course, which requires four 

 years, leading to the degree of Bachelor of 

 Science in Forestry. 



It took fully a quarter of a century in Mich- 

 igan to develop forestry interest. As President 



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