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practically every tree growing. Measurements were 

 made in October, 1906, and prior thereto which show 

 the following facts: Number of trees measured, 

 3,558. Average growth in the year 1906, inches 

 12.085; average growth in the year 1905, inches 6.9; 

 average growth in the year 1904, inches 5.8; average 

 total height year 1906, inches 33.5. 



At the time of the Committee's visit in August, 

 1914, the average height of these trees was about 

 twelve feet and the highest exceeded fifteen feet. 

 Photographs are shown herein of this plantation in 

 1904, 1906, 1912 and 1914. 



While many other plantings of white and norway 

 pine equally as promising were visited by the Com- 

 mittee, we believe them to be the best illustration of 

 what can be expected along these lines because we 

 were able to secure photographs of them at various 

 stages of their growth. 



Figures in the office of the State Forester show 

 that the cost of planting in Wisconsin has averaged 

 $4.98 per acre while members of the Pennsylvania 

 Forestry Commission stated that it had cost them 

 about $9 per acre. Wisconsin plantings have been 

 made with about a thousand trees to the acre while 

 the Pennsylvania foresters have used almost double 

 this amount. A further item of cost in the latter 

 State is by reason of the added expense of growing 

 nursery stock. On the heavy soils where their 

 nurseries are located the planting, care, and cultiva- 

 tion of the seedlings is much more difficult and ex- 

 pensive, and the setting out of the trees in the for- 

 ests on the heavier soils makes necessary a great 

 deal more work. 



Another thing of interest in connection with this is 

 that the work now being done and which it will be 

 possible to do in the next few years with just the 

 two Wisconsin nurseries- the one at Big Trout Lake, 

 the other at Tomahawk Lake in the way of artifi- 

 cial reforestation is being paid for by the Federal 

 Government and, therefore, imposes no burden on 

 the people of Wisconsin. The Government in mak- 



