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number of acres acquired by the State. It is a well-known 

 fact that European countries receive large additions to their 

 revenue from government forests. Sir Herbert Maxwell 

 states, in the "Nineteenth Century " for October, that the 

 government forests of Belgium, covering 1,740,000 acres, 

 yield a return of $20,000,000 annually. 



