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harvested; Michigan 5 per cent of it; Massachusetts 6 

 per cent; and Vermont, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania 

 10 per cent, with different provisions for forests already 

 established. 



Such a method is much better than that adopted by a 

 number of states which exempt, under certain conditions, 

 reforested or reforesting lands for a term of years, or allow 

 rebates or bounties on such lands. 



The profit of a growing forest crop will depend largely 

 on relief from excessive taxation. It is unthrifty public 

 policy to discourage putting waste land to work. (" The 

 Farm Woodlot Problem," by Herbert A. Smith, Editor 

 Forest Service from Yearbook of Department of Agri- 

 culture for 1914.) 



