CONTENTS. 



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Introduction 133 



Regions in which forest planting is not practicable 134 



Regions in which forest planting is practicable 134 



Planting in the Eastern States 134 



Farm wood lots 134 



Impoverished farm lands and cut-over nonagricultural lands 135 



Estimates of cost and returns per acre for planted White Pine 136 



Planting in the Middle West 139 



The White Pine belt 139 



The main agricultural region 140 



The semiarid region 141 



Planting in the Western States 142 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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 PLATE II. Forest planting for the protection of watershed at Clinton, Mass . . 138 



III. Fig. 1. Forest nursery of the Metropolitan Water and Sew T erage 



Board, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Fig. 2. Waste land 

 suitable for forest planting, Minnesota 138 



I V. Fig. 1. General view of forest- tree seed beds, Dismal River Forest 



Reserve, Nebraska. Fig. 2. Interior view of forest-tree seed 



beds, Dismal River Forest Reserve, Nebraska 142 



V. Fig. 1. Part of the Dismal River Forest Reserve, Nebraska, on 

 which forest planting will be undertaken. Fig. 2. Forest plant- 

 ing on mountain sides denuded by fire, southern California 142 



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