thirteen million trees. Daniel Webster on his tour 

 through England in 1839, visited ''Sherwood Forest" 

 on the estate of the Duke of Portland in Nottingham 

 county, adjoining Lincoln county on the west; and in 

 an address on the agriculture of England at Boston, 

 January, 1840, he said : ' ' Sherwood Forest, at least in 

 its present state, is not like the pine forests of Maine, 

 the heavy hardwood forests of the unredeemed lands 

 of New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, or the still 

 more heavily timbered lands of the West. It embraces 

 a large extent of country, with various soils, some of 

 them thin and light, with beautiful and venerable oaks 

 of unknown age, much open ground between them and 

 underneath their wide-spread branches, and this cov- 

 ered with heather, lichens and fern." 



A forest school was established at Cooper's Hill, 

 England, in 1885, and one at Avondale county, Wick- 

 low, Ireland,' in 1904. 



The area of England and Wales is 58,324 square 

 miles, being just about the same as the land area of 

 our state of Georgia; of Scotland 30,405 square miles, 

 being just a little more than that of South Carolina ; of 

 Ireland 32,360 square miles, being 2,190 square miles 

 greater than the land area of South Carolina. Since 

 the middle ages less than three per cent of the area of 

 woods in the United Kingdom has remained under state 

 control. 



One of the duties devolving on the Secretary of the 

 Minnesota State Forestry Board is to keep the board 

 informed of the situation of forestry in the various 

 countries of Europe and the different states of the 

 United States. Through the kindness of the Governor 



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