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FORESTRY MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 



opportunities for research work. And school building into the very heart of 

 one of the special advantages is that the these forests in less than an hour by 

 instructor can take his class from the foot or by trolley. 



THE EXTENSIVE GERMAN FORESTS 



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ONSUL GENERAL A. M. 

 THACKARA, of Berlin, states 



1 that Germany's area of forest 

 lands is about 34,500,000 acres, or 

 about 27 per cent of the whole area of 

 the country. About 11,000,000 acres of 



forest lands belong to the various State 

 governments of Germany, 5,500,000 

 acres are public forests ; over 600,000 

 acres belong to Kings and Princes of 

 various States, while 16,000,000 acres 

 are privately owned. 



/. R. McCarthy, field agent for the Chestnut Tree Blight Commission, with headquarters 

 in Philadelphia, is now at Ridgway, Elk County, Pennsylvania, and ivill make his head- 

 quarters there for several months, during which he will examine the trees of the county for 

 the fungus disease. 



The American Forestry Co., of South Framingham, Mass., has just received an order 

 for 20,000 little white pine trees, about eight inches long, from the Marlboro Water Dept. 

 These will be set out around Lake Williams, which supplies the city zvith water. 



