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OUR VANISHING FORESTS 



needed. Keep out the repeated fires, and without 

 further aid three-fourths of such of our lands as at 

 present produce very little timber or none at all, 

 will within a reasonable period re-establish a timber 



CHICAGO 



NEW YORK 



Every year forest fires destroy enough good timber to build a row of 

 five-room frame houses spaced one hundred feet apart on both sides of a 

 highway from New York to Chicago. 



crop, not the most valuable crop perhaps, but one of 

 real economic value. Start now, and sixty or 

 seventy years hence when our virgin timber is ex- 

 hausted, those waste acres will be producing at least 



