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reward to the cultivator. Such lands are the 

 appropriate home of the trees. Once planted 

 there, and protected from the invasion of fire 

 and the incursion of cattle, they will grow and 

 produce an ample harvest with little further 

 care or labor on the part of their owner. In 

 a pecuniary point of view these rocky and often 

 precipitous hill-sides can be made so valuable 

 in no other way as by giving them up to the 

 growth of trees. One crop of this kind, requir- 

 ing almost no care, will ordinarily sell for more 

 than the combined crops of grain or roots that 

 could be raised upon the same ground during 

 all the years that the trees would require to 

 bring them to maturity. With the increase of 

 our population, and the consequently increasing 

 demand for wood for use in the arts and manu- 

 factures all the while extending, for building 

 purposes and for fuel, the value of forest prop- 

 erty can not but greatly increase. 



There is ample reason, therefore, for endeav- 

 oring to reclothe with trees the hill-sides from 

 which the forests have been taken. In some 

 cases the reason for planting is as imperative 

 almost as it is on the exposed plains of Da- 



