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OUR VANISHING FORESTS 



most of the rocky and unpromising places were 

 untouched, and it is these which constitute the large 

 majority of the farm wood-lots of today. 



There are thousands of just such wood-lots in 

 every section of the country, but it has only been 

 within recent years that anyone has taken the 



The aggregate of all the farmers' wood-lots in the country was in 1915 

 no less than two hundred million acres. This represents an area as large 

 as the whole of the New England states, New York, New Jersey, Penn- 

 sylvania, Ohio, Indiana and IlHnois. 



trouble to consider them. The Forest Service now 

 tells us that sixty per cent, of all the forests in, the 

 country will soon belong, not to the government, 

 nor to the states, nor to the lumbermen, but to the 

 agricultural element in our population. In 1915 the 

 aggregate of such holdings was no less than two 

 hundred million acres, or something over three 



