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A PRIMER <>K FORESTRY. 



PLANTING. 



It has often been proposed to plant trees in order to 

 repair the damauv done to the forests by the lumber- 

 men. Tree planting is most useful in all the treeless or 

 si-jintily wooded portions of our country where planted 



Ft'.. 88. A Fnropean larch k r rve in western 

 Mill iie-ut a. Cu-t of plan tiiiy per acre 17 years 

 I.I.".. I'resent value per acn 



trees will <rn>w. and wherever forests have been very 

 -eveivly injured or dest royed. but it is o-enerally far too 

 e\pcn>ive to take the ])laee of eonservat i ve, bimberino- 



in regions already t'ore>te<l. An a<-i-e of o-rowin^ natui-al 

 foi-e-t <-an be boiio-ht in neai'ly every forested part of 



