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to buy up these waste lands and have them planted 

 through the agents of the Heath Association. The 

 planting is mainly of spruce in plow furrows at a cost 

 of $10 to $12 per acre; 60 to 80 year old stands of 

 earlier plantings testifying to the possible results. 



In the last 40 years nearly 200,000 acres of heath 

 have been planted, of which over one-half are to the 

 credit of the association. 



For the education of the higher grade foresters a 

 department of forestry (now with two professors) was 

 instituted in the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural 

 High School at Copenhagen in 1869, with a course of 

 five years including one and a half year of practical 

 work. This education is given free of charge. 



The Heath Association educates its own officers, in- 

 cluding in their subjects the management of meadows 

 and peatbogs. 



A Forestry Association, composed one-half of forest 

 owners, with its organ Tidskrift for Skovvaesen, in 

 existence since 1888, and a valuable book literature, 

 in which the problems of the heath are especially 

 fully and authoritatively treated, places Denmark in 

 the foremost rank in the forestry world in these 

 particulars. 



Among the prominent contributors are to be men- 

 tioned, besides Reventlow and Dalgas, P. E. Mutter, 

 well known by his discussions of the problems of moor 

 soils. From 1876 to 1891, he issued a magazine, in 

 which Oppermann contributed a history of Danish 

 forestry. The latter author also, in co-operation with 

 Hauch, published in 1900 a Hand-book of Forestry. 



