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"sawyers". A very large percent of the balsam has suffered 

 from "sawyer" injury and much of it will soon be valueless. 

 Owners of woodlands in the regions infested should, in so far as 

 it is practicable, concentrate their logging operations in the 

 worst affected localities in an attempt to utilize as much as pos- 

 sible of the dead spruce, fir and hemlock before it becomes use- 

 less. 



