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OUR VANISHING FORESTS 



then set to work to plant pine seedlings by means of 

 Arbor Day celebrations in the public schools. The 

 Petersham forest was the outgrowth of a two hun- 

 dred acre poor farm whose inmates gradually 

 decreased to the point where the farm was no longer 



Thousands of cities, towns and villages throughout the United States 



already possess vacant land, poor farms, school property or watershed 



reserves which could be put to work producing timber. 



worth continuing in the original capacity. The 

 trees here are already well advanced in age, as, in 

 the years that the poor farm was neglected, the pine 

 came up of its own accord and part of the forest 

 had reached maturity about the time that attention 



