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OUR VANISHING FORESTS 



which you used to sit and fish; think of the board- 

 walks at our seaside resorts; think of the wooden 

 railway trestles whose comparative cheapness ena- 

 bles you to travel across great expanses of water at 

 a fare no higher than if the road-bed were dry land. 

 Then thank the forest. 



Modern methods have made it possible for the ordinary farmer to 



treat his fence posts with a scientific preservative and thereby obtain 



from them a maximum of service. 



While cedar does very well as a pole intended 

 only for carrying wires, it splits rather too readily 

 under impact to give good service for dock piles and 

 heavy trestles. Oak is most desirable, but creosoted 

 pine and fir give service quite as satisfactory as do 



