that relatively few people trouble to be sure that it is 

 out before tossing it away. In the Western National 

 Forests, where in the summer every spark of fire is 

 particularly dangerous on account of the dryness of 

 the vegetation, our forest rangers have again and 

 again traced fires back to the point of origin and 

 found there a cigarette butt, from which the fire 

 had spread fan-wise down the wind. Some of these 

 cigarette butts lay by the roadside where they had 

 been tossed from the cars of automobilists. 



"Lumber companies sometimes forbid smoking in 

 the woods. Restrictive measures of this character 

 would not be called for if smokers had a sufficiently 

 keen sense of responsibility, and the habit of care 

 not to drop fire in any form." 



Notes 



Two acres of white pine near Keene, N. H., were 

 sold three or four years ago, before the Avar prices, 

 for $2,000.00 on the stump. The total stand was 254 

 cords which equals 170,000 board feet, or an average 

 of 85,000 feet per acre. The trees were from 80 to 

 85 years old; so the growth on each acre was about 

 1,000 feet per annum and the gross returns about 

 $12.20 per acre per annum. 



A man in New Jersey is raising cultivated blueber- 

 ries which reach a maximum diameter of three-quar- 

 ters of an inch and sell for $10.00 per bushel. Some 

 of the older plants are producing at the rate of 100 

 bushels per acre. 



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