FOREST LOSSES ON THE ITALIAN FRONT 



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but this is al- 

 ways left to re- 

 forest itself 

 naturally. For 

 reforesta t i o n 

 work, silver fir, 

 spruce and pine 

 seedlings are 

 kept in the seed 

 bed for two 

 years and for 

 three years in 

 the transplant 

 beds. Before 

 the war it cost 

 about six lire, 

 or about $1.20 

 per 1,000 to 

 produce these 

 five - year - old 

 plants. At that 

 time, labor cost 

 from 75 cents 

 to $1.25 per 

 man per day. 

 The planting 



Photograph by courtesy of the Italian General Headquarters 



AN INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING THE METHOD EMPLOYED IN CAMOUFLAGING A 

 HIGHWAY ALONG THE ITALIAN FRONT WITH BRUSH AND BRANCHES. PLAITED STRAW. 

 WICKER WORK, MATTINGS, AND CLOTH WERE ALSO COMMONLY USED. GREAT QUANTITIES 

 OF LUMBER, POLES AND TIMBERS WERE USED IN THE WORK OF CAMOUFLAGING THE 

 HIGHWAYS, MUNITION DUMPS, ARTILLERY LOCATIONS, ETC. 



cost has been 

 materially low- 

 ered where 

 Austrian pris- 

 oners were 

 used, because 

 the wages paid 

 were compara- 

 tively lower 

 and the cost of 

 feeding the 

 men was only 

 about 20 cents 

 to 35 cents a 

 day per person. 

 In setting the 

 plants out in 

 the field on 

 areas recently 

 clear- cut of 

 mature timber, 

 the silver fir 

 plants are plac- 

 ed one and one- 

 h a 1 f meters 

 apart in every 



alone, before the war, cost about 20 to 24 lire per 1,000 direction, that is, the spacing is not prepared in rectangu- 



plants, or from $4.00 to $4.80. The total cost, therefore, lar shape as is customary in this country. The pine and 



of the plants placed in the ground would be from $5.20 chestnut transplants are placed only two meters apart, 



to $6.00 per 1,000 plants. For the past three years this It has been found that planting can be successful in both 



Underwood and Underwood 



TRULY A "NO MAN'S" LAND. 



THIS IS THE SHELL-TORN FOREST ON THE PEAK OF MONTE GRAPPA OVER WHICH THE ITALIANS DID THEIR FIGHTING TO 

 STOP THE AUSTRIAN OFFENSIVE OF JUNE 17, 1918. STUMPS OF TREES AND SHATTERED AND BROKEN TRUNKS STAND OUT 

 LIKE SKELETONS AGAINST THE SKY, THE ONLY REMAINS OF FORMER TIMBER GROWTH. 



