TREE STUDY AND CIVIC FORESTRY 



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State and national helps. The national Bureau of Forestry 

 and your state forester print a number of practical bulletins 

 and forestry leaflets, which may be obtained gratis or at cost. 

 These will give directions for gathering, storing, and planting 

 different tree seeds, and advice as to best species to plant. Tree 

 seeds and even young seedling trees may be obtained from 

 state or (in Canada) from provincial departments of forestry. 



FIG. 30. Crop of tree .shown in Fig. 29 



\Vr do not have to " wait " fifteen years for such a crop; we just plant the nut 

 and go about our business 



Since the planting of trees is an important public service, 

 states are beginning to pass laws exempting land so planted 

 from taxation. Massachusetts and New York exempt for 

 thirty-five years all lands on which not fewer than twelve 

 hundred trees are planted to the acre. 



Forest fires. In a hot, dry wind a spark or carelessly dropped 

 match may start a fire which one standing over it cannot stamp 

 out; and it may run down the wind faster than wild horses 



