THE USES OF THE FOREST. 



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greatest quantity of valuable material. This is the 

 central idea upon which the national forests of France 

 are managed. 



The greatest return in money may be the service 

 most desired of the forest. If a farmer wished to 

 sell the product of his woodlot instead of consuming it 



FIG. 2. Moving sand dunes near Cape May, N. J., where once the whaling 

 towi^of Portsmouth stood. In the foreground, red cedars buried and partly 

 uncovered by the wind. 



himself, his woodland would be useful to him just in 

 proportion to its net yield in money. This is true 

 also in the case of any owner of a forest who wishes to 

 dispose of its product, but who can not, or will not, 

 sell the forest itself. State forests, like those in the 



