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through posted signs and special appeals, but also 

 through interesting exhibits of forest products at 

 the country fairs. Experience shows that visitors 

 crowd to these forestry booths, if only to search for 

 their friends among the photographs of farmers 

 who have already taken steps to plant or conserve 

 the young timber growth on their land, but they 

 see the other exhibits too. It is possible that much 

 of the success which will attend this educational 

 work will be due to the special efforts of the Chief 

 Forester, for he himself was born and bred not far 

 from the present town, and the personal equation is 

 always important in obtaining good will. 



Where it appears that, due to the interference of 

 man's agency, the cut-over land has not been prop- 

 erly re-seeded, the company has experimented with 

 various methods of sowing. The best way has not 

 yet been determined. On two thousand acres of 

 land Longleaf pine seed was broadcasted in the fall, 

 but without satisfactory results. About a pound 

 was scattered over each acre; but Nature's own 

 methods are more lavish than man can afford, and 

 it is probable that, as the seed was scattered at a 

 time when other food for the birds was scarce, the 

 feathered flock which followed the sowers probably 

 profited most by the operation. On the other hand, 

 eight hundred acres of fenced land were roughly 



