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THE TREE DOCTOR 



Photo 197, A charming Vista. 



one For every ton of anthracite taken out of the mine, we must 

 put back a cubic foot of timber that is to say. seventy million 

 cubic feet per year for the anthracite industry alone. Four mil- 

 lion cubic feet a year will hardly suffice for the underground 

 work in mines." These are only the "items" in railroading and 

 mining. What about the millions of tons of "pulp" for paper- 

 making and the uses of lumber in domestic and commercial life ? 



EUROPE WILL SUFFER FOR OUR SINS. 



When I was a boy it was considered very fortunate to be 

 the possessor of a few nice clean boards, a foot or so in length, 

 as lumber was so scarce that every bit was commonly worked 

 into some use by the carpenter who was trusted to handle it. 

 Some rural districts had no timber that was permitted to be cut, 

 but in the one in which I was raised, occasionallv a tree was al- 



