parts of the United States to Minnesota to enjoy the 

 healthful air, the fragrance, invigorating atmosphere 

 of the pine woods, to see the pretty scenery and to 

 hunt. Some of the places they come to are Itasca 

 Park, Pipestone Park and Minnetonka. New resorts 



It is easy to see why anyone living at the end of a lane 

 like this should take a prize in an essay contest on trees. 



are constantly being built up around the lakes in the 

 woods. 



I will now copy from the "Forestry Bulletin, Octo- 

 ber, 1915," a short piece as follows: 



"Little Norway with her nine and one-half million 

 acres of land, half of which is now a waste, and which 

 contains a population of over two hundred thousand 

 has its area of forest land steadily increasing. In 

 spite of the fact that she is so far north that her for- 

 ests make a very slow growth some of the oak trees re- 

 quiring two hundred and fifty years to mature she 



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