THE GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA 

 Hon. I. Y. Sanders, Who Has Shown Himself a Friend of the New Forestry and Conservation Movement in His State (pagf 19) 



and other uses which require a hard 

 wood. 



The osage orange, which grows a 

 great deal in southern Louisiana, is val- 

 uable for walking canes, baseball bats, 

 and sledgehammer handles. It makes 

 a magnificent fence post, and in old 

 times, was used principally as a fence 

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hedge between plantations. In Louisi- 

 ana we have some cedar, but the recent 

 storms have been destroying most of 

 that. 



The magnolia, the flower of which is 

 the emblem of our state, is a beautiful 

 evergreen tree, and, with our liveoak, 

 grows to magnificent proportions here 



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