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reason of the area being the property of an educational institution. 

 Above these charges, however, a profit of between two and four 

 dollars net per thousand feet is made on the timber marketed. 



Professor Fisher states, however, that the same equipment, 

 overhead and supervision could be used for running an area of 

 ten to fifteen thousand acres, consequently representing no increase 

 in charges but a fivefold, at least, increase in revenue. Through 

 reforestation, weeding out inferior growth and practice of scientific 

 methods, it has been possible to cut more annually than at the 

 start and to count on a considerable annual increase in the amount 

 of maturing timber. 



RELATIVE AREAS OF FOREST LANDS BY STATES 



FOREST LANDS 



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