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and Cleveland and Oberlin smaller parks. These areas afford 

 excellent opportunities for demonstration in planting: and the 

 practice of forestry. 



In addition to the work of wood lot management, considerable 

 progress has been made with planting-. Already 3,000 acres of land 

 privately owned and a few small areas of State land have been given 

 over to forest plantations. A large portion of the nursery stock 

 used in this work was taken from the nurseries maintained by the 

 State for the distribution of seedlings, the annual output of which 

 at present amounts to about 375,000, and the capacity of 1,500,000 

 seedlings and transplants. 



Fig. 3. Group of young hickories ready to take the place of old ones recently 



cut for vehicle stock. 



At the recent Constitutional Convention an amendment was 

 adopted empowering the State to purchase lands and likewise to use 

 tax-reverted lands for timber reserves. In various parts of the 

 State there are areas not suitable for farming. Some of these in the 

 southern part, previously referred to are contiguous lands covered 

 with more or less valuable second growth. If these and smaller 

 areas are converted into State forests they will prove to be of con- 

 siderable economic importance, first, as a factor in forestry educa- 

 tion; second, in the advantage of the State having an income from 



