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reclamation work of the dunes and heaths, bnt it pro- 

 gressed more actively only since the sixties of last 

 century, when through the effort of a State engineer, 

 Capt. Dalgas, an association was formed for the 

 reclamation of heaths and moors. A small subvention 

 of $600 started the work of the association under 

 the advice of Staats planteur (State forest planter) Jen- 

 sen Tusch in its useful campaign. The State subven- 

 tion now amounts to about forty thousand dollars an- 

 nually, and the success of the association has been such 

 that it has become almost a fad for large land owners 

 and others 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 de- 

 partment of forestry (now with two professors) was 

 instituted in the Eoyal 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 ex- 

 istence since 1888, and a valuable book literature, in 



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