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OUR VANISHING FORESTS 



cut and manufactured into paper pulp as a proof of 

 the practicability of the reforestation idea. Doubt- 

 less it would have paid better to have left them four 

 or five years longer, but in this case the company 

 merely desired to illustrate its contention. 



Many natives of the Longleaf pine country claim 

 that an area timbered with Longleaf will not come 



Fattening at the expense of the young forest. 



up a second time to the same species, but only to the 

 Shortleaf varieties. The Louisiana State Forestry 

 Department some time ago demonstrated the falsity 

 of this theory and explained the reason. Every 

 settler in that country, be he white or black, keeps 

 a varying number of hogs. The chances are he him- 

 self does not know how many, for the state is with- 



